{"id":41602,"date":"2019-11-17T10:22:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T10:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41602"},"modified":"2019-11-17T10:22:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T10:22:12","slug":"prince-andrew-on-photo-with-accuser-i-am-not-one-to-as-it-were-hug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41602","title":{"rendered":"Prince Andrew on photo with accuser: &#8216;I am not one to, as it were, hug&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, never saw anything that struck him as suspicious when he was around the now-disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the prince told the BBC.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;At the time there was no indication to me or anybody else that that was what he was doing,&#8221; he said in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-50446065\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Newsnight&#8217;s Emily Maitlis<\/a> that aired Saturday. &#8220;And certainly, when I saw him in the United States&#8230; or when I was staying in his houses in the United States, there was no indication, absolutely no indication.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Prince Andrew faces allegations stemming from his relationship with Epstein, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/11\/16\/us\/jeffrey-epstein-federal-worker-plea-deal\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">who died by apparent suicide in August<\/a> while awaiting trial on federal charges that he sexually abused underage girls and ran a sex trafficking ring. Epstein had pleaded not guilty.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, never saw anything that struck him as suspicious when he was around the now-disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the prince told the BBC.&#8221;At the time there was no indication to me or anybody else that that was what he was doing,&#8221; he said in an interview&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}