Richard Kay another royal mouthpiece wants us to feel sorry for Prince Andrew.

Richard Kay, Editor-at-Large at the Daily Mail, has written a piece about the growing whispers of support among royal insiders for Prince Andrew. The central argument of the piece is that the media and social media criticism of Andrew has gone too far. That people close to the institution feel he is being treated unfairly. That they won't be satisfied until Andrew is on the dole and living in a council house is apparently a sentiment circulating among those who feel the coverage has become disproportionate.
Let me be very precise about what Andrew is facing that is generating this concern.
He has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, specifically for allegedly passing confidential information to Jeffrey Epstein during his time as the UK's trade envoy. If convicted he faces a potential maximum sentence of life in prison. He is under active investigation by two police forces. The Crown Prosecution Service is providing early investigative advice. Virginia Giuffre, who died by suicide last year, alleged before her death that she was trafficked to Andrew and forced to have sex with him on multiple occasions, including when she was seventeen years old. A civil lawsuit was settled for an undisclosed sum. Multiple other women have made allegations about his conduct over many years.
This is who the royal insiders are whispering support for.
This is the person the Daily Mail is suggesting is being treated too harshly.
And here is what I find most morally disorienting about the framing of this piece and pieces like it. The concern being expressed, the worry about Andrew's mental health, the alarm about whether the coverage has gone too far, the sympathy for a man facing the consequences of his documented associations and alleged conduct, exists in a media landscape that has shown almost none of that concern for the people he is alleged to have harmed.
Virginia Giuffre died by suicide.
She spent years fighting for her story to be believed. She sat in depositions and gave interviews and faced the full force of a legal and public relations operation that questioned her credibility, her motivations and her character. She did this while living with whatever she lived with as a result of what she alleged happened to her. And she died before seeing anything resembling full accountability.
The Daily Mail is now writing about the growing whispers of support for the man she accused.
Not a whisper about Virginia.
Not a whisper about the other women whose allegations have been documented in the released files.
Not a whisper about what it means to the survivors of Epstein's network to watch the British press generate sympathetic coverage of a man who maintained a friendship with their abuser long after that abuser's convictions were public knowledge.
The piece describes Andrew and Edward's relationship going back to childhood. The nursery at Buckingham Palace. The comfort the younger brother found in the older. The love between siblings that endures across decades and disgrace. It is humanising language. Warm language. The kind of language that is designed to make you feel something for Andrew before you have had a chance to think about who else needs that feeling directed at them.
I want to be clear that I understand family loyalty. I understand that Edward visiting his brother and sitting with him during an isolating and frightening period is a human act that does not require endorsement of anything Andrew has done or is alleged to have done. I said as much when the story of the Easter visit first emerged.
But there is a significant difference between acknowledging the humanity of a family maintaining contact with a troubled member and running a piece about how the coverage of that member has been too harsh and the insiders are whispering their support.
One is compassion.
The other is rehabilitation.
And the attempt to rehabilitate Andrew's reputation while the investigation is ongoing, while the files are still releasing, while the survivors and their families are still waiting for full accountability, is not compassion.
It is a choice about whose experience matters more.
The British press made that choice.
Again.
And the whispers of support for Andrew exist in a world where Virginia Giuffre's whispers, her years of testimony and allegations and legal filings, were met with the full machinery of denial, legal challenge and reputation management.
She is gone now.
The whispers of support for the man she accused are in the Daily Mail.
And if you feel more for him than for her after reading that sentence then the press has done exactly what it was designed to do.
And we should all be asking ourselves why we let it.

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