Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

"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."

"[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."

"Well, if you’ll pardon the expression, that really is the n***** in the woodpile"

"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 cant take any more of this my end."

"[On the 2001 photograph of himself with Giuffre (then Roberts) and Ghislaine Maxwell] I have absolutely no memory of that photograph ever being taken."

"I could have worse tags than ‘Air Miles Andy’, although I don’t know what they are."

"I put away childish things and false bravado and returned a man full in the knowledge of human frailty and suffering."

"[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."

"If youre 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."

"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."

"[Asked on how the photograph might have been faked] I dont believe its 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 dont recollect that photograph ever being taken. [...] Im at a loss to explain this particular photograph."

"[On his alleged meetings with Virginia Giuffre, his accuser] I dont know if Ive met her but no, I have no recollection of meeting her."