WikiLeaks cables: 'Rude' Prince Andrew shocks US ambassador

[CHIMO]

Source: guardian.co.uk

Prince Andrew launched a scathing attack on British anti-corruption investigators, journalists and the French during an "astonishingly candid" performance at an official engagement that shocked a US diplomat.

Tatiana Gfoeller, Washington's ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, recorded in a secret cable that Andrew spoke "cockily" at the brunch with British and Canadian business people, leading a discussion that "verged on the rude".

During the two-hour engagement in 2008 at a hotel in the capital, Bishkek, Andrew, who travels the globe as a special UK trade representative, attacked Britain's corruption investigators in the Serious Fraud Office for what he called "idiocy".

He went on to denounce Guardian reporters investigating bribery as "those journalists … who poke their noses everywhere".



Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/nov/29/wikileaks-cables-rude-prince-andrew

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Well thankfully the Commonwealth has met its demise. But now we have a new empire. So what has really changed?

[LuckyLib]

1. Perhaps Andrew had a bit too much to drink, somewhat akin to Fergie's infatuation

with a belt or two (or three).

[cyr330]

2. One MORE reason I have no use for the Royal Family. . .

Those fuckers think they're above the goddamned law and everything else. I don't know why this surprises me, as we have plenty of these asshats in the USA--GWB, Dick Cheney, Barbara Bush, GHB, et al.

I have no fucking use for any of these goddamned "royals."

[Boudica the Lyoness]

3. It's the British Royal family

not the American Royal family.

[DallasNE]

4. Let's Not Forget About Prince Harry

It seems the fruit never falls far from the tree.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7286-2005Jan13.html

But then he was only honoring his great grandfather, the Nazi King.

http://21stcenturysocialism.com/article/britains_nazi_king_01898.html

[Matilda]

5. Edward VIII was the uncle of the present Queen,

which would make him Prince Harry's great-great-uncle. Harry's great-grandfather was King George VI, who was no Nazi.

[Dreamer Tatum]

6. I bet the were waiting for your approval with bated breath, too.

:eyes:

[Javaman]

7. To quote another Brit, "me thinks he protest to much". nt

[aranthus]

8. Does Wikileaks out any other coutnry's secret cables besides the US?

I checked their site, but I didn't see any.