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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
17 quotes
“It’s a simple answer. That’s my life. That’s what I expect. Right? That is because of who I am and that is because of the life of the family within which I’ve been brought up. So to me this state of affairs is not extraordinary. To anybody else who looks in, they think I’m bloody mad! But that’s what we do.”
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (born 1960) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, "Dinner with the FT: Prince Andrew", Financial Times (23 October 2009)
“Please make sure that every statement or legal letter states clearly that I am NOT involved and that I knew and know NOTHING about any of these allegations. I can't take any more of this my end.”
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (born 1960) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From an email to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell (March 2011), as cited in "Epstein email says Andrew had photo taken with Virginia Giuffre", BBC News (13 November 2025)
“I'm just as concerned for you! Don't worry about me! It would seem we are in this together and will have to rise above it. Otherwise keep in close touch and we'll play some more soon!!!!”
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (born 1960) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From an email to Jeffrey Epstein (sent 28 February 2011), following the publication of a photography of Mountbatten-Windsor and Virginia Roberts Giuffre. Quoted in Robert Booth, 'Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein 'we'r…
“Well, if you'll pardon the expression, that really is the n***** in the woodpile”
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (born 1960) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: When asked if the department of trade could be doing a better job, as recorded by Rohan Silva in 'Rohan Silva: Prince Andrew’s use of language left me reeling — and I still regret not challenging his choice of words' (2…
“I could have worse tags than ‘Air Miles Andy’, although I don’t know what they are.”
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (born 1960) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed in Marina Hyde, "Of course Prince Andrew isn’t sweating over this lawsuit – he can’t", The Guardian (11 August 2021)
“[On his military service during the Falklands War in 1982] So whilst I think back to a day when a young man went to war, full of bravado, I returned a changed man.”
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“I put away childish things and false bravado and returned a man full in the knowledge of human frailty and suffering.”
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“My reflection makes me think even harder and pray even more fervently for those in conflict today, for those family’s [sic] torn apart by the horrors they have witnessed.”
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (born 1960) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Comments on the Instagram account of his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson (March 2022), as cited in "I returned a changed man’: Prince Andrew deletes Falklands war post", The Guardian (2 April 2022)
“[T]he people that I met and the opportunities that I was given to learn either by him or because of him were actually very useful.”
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“I kick myself for, on a daily basis, because it was not something that was becoming of a member of the royal family [...] And we try and uphold the highest standards and practices and I let the side down, simple as that.”
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (born 1960) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Prince Andrew Says He Doesn't Regret His 'Very Useful' Relationship With Jeffrey Epstein" Time magazine (18 November 2019) cited from Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis (broadcast 16 November 2019)
“[On his alleged meetings with Virginia Giuffre, his accuser] I don't know if I've met her but no, I have no recollection of meeting her.”
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[On the 2001 photograph of himself with Giuffre (then Roberts) and Ghislaine Maxwell] I have absolutely no memory of that photograph ever being taken.”
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“[Asked on how the photograph might have been faked] I don't believe it's a picture of me in London because . . . when I go out in London I wear a suit and tie. [...] Nobody can prove whether or not that photograph has been doctored but I don't recollect that photograph ever being taken. [...] I'm at a loss to explain this particular photograph.”
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (born 1960) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Prince Andrew interview: 'I've got to have a thick skin and get on with it'", The Sunday Times (London, 16 November 2019)
“If you're a man it is a positive act to have sex with somebody [...] You have to … take some sort of positive action and so therefore if you try to forget it’s very difficult to try and forget a positive action and I do not remember anything.”
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“[Explaining that he could not have had sex with Virginia Giuffre (then Roberts) at the London home of Ghislaine Maxwell] I was with the children and I’d taken Beatrice to a Pizza Express in Woking for a party at I suppose four or five in the afternoon. And then because the duchess [Sarah Ferguson] was away, we have a simple rule in the family that when one is away the other is there.”
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“[Explaining why he stayed at the New York home of Epstein, a convicted child sex offender, in 2010.] It was a convenient place to stay... At the end of the day, with the benefit of all the hindsight one can have, it was definitely the wrong thing to do. But at the time, I felt it was the honourable and right thing to do. And I admit fully that my judgment was probably coloured by my tendency to be too honourable but that is just the way it is.”
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (born 1960) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in Jamie Doward "Prince Andrew: I didn’t have sex with teenager, I was home after Pizza Express in Woking" The Guardian (17 November 2019).
“[Explaining why Virginia Giuffre's allegations against him of sexual assault couldn't be believed.] I didn’t sweat at the time because I had suffered what I would describe as an overdose of adrenaline in the Falklands War, when I was shot at ... it was almost impossible for me to sweat.”
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (born 1960) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "Prince Andrew claimed he ‘didn’t sweat’ in BBC interview... but what does science say?, The Independent (26 Nov 2019)