No, Angela, Prince Andrew is not a ‘nonce’

According to a new book on the Labour Party, Angela Rayner described the Duke of York as a “nonce” as she lobbied for him to be stripped of his official duties after the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

Angela Rayner

A “nonce” is a colloquial term for a paedophile. Some believe the word is an acronym of “Not On Normal Courtyard Exercise”, supposedly displayed on the doors of prisoners who should be kept away from other inmates for their own safety. Convicts, just like some of us, are keen to have those they can look down
upon.

But does the Duke of York fit into that category, as the Angela contends?

Virginia Roberts Giuffre

She was referring, of course, to alleged encounters between the Prince and one Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who claims to have had intimate relations with him three times when she was seventeen. She sent a text to a friend boasting about
it.

Carolyn Andriano says: “I asked her if she’d been to the palace. And she said ‘I got to sleep with him’. She didn’t seem upset about it. She thought it was pretty cool.”

Virginia Giuffre was actually a prostitute, and according to the sister of her former boyfriend, she also recruited other girls for Jeffrey Epstein. She was no innocent party. Now seventeen might be under-age in a handful of US states, but most set the age of consent at sixteen. It is sixteen in the United Kingdom.

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Age or State of consent?

The Bible, interestingly, does not specify an age of consent, only a state of consent, which is holy matrimony. The Statute of Westminster first brought in the concept of an age of consent in these islands in twelve seventy-five. It stood at twelve years of age, more or less, until eighteen eighty-five, when it was raised to sixteen.

If Prince Andrew did sleep with Ms Giuffre, which he denies, then he was a fornicator, a whoremonger, and a fool.

Although to flee fornication, as the Bible commands, when an attractive young woman is throwing herself at you, needs not just the Christian faith, but the grace of God as well. You might not see evidence of either in the Duke of York. But he was not a paedophile. He was not a ‘nonce’, as the Rayner insult would have it. Watch the video here:

Arrogant, insensitive, but a war hero

I am not hoisting a flag for the Duke of York. The reports, even from his own late father, cast him as an arrogant, insensitive man who looks down on ordinary people.

The Royal family were once watching Coronation Street. ‘Oh God, look at all those common people,’Andrew shouted. Prince Philip gave him a rocket. ‘If it wasn’t for people like that,’ he said, ‘you would not be sitting here.’

He was less than convincing, or even empathetic, in his ill-advised Emily Maitlis interview.

On the other hand, he is a war hero, who bobbed up and down in a helicopter being a lure for Exocet missiles during the Falklands War.

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What does the Bible say?

Politicians, leaders, are supposed, according to the Bible’s specification in Exodus 18 and verse 21, to be ‘able men, such as fear God, men of truth,hating covetousness’.

Did you spot that: able, humble ‘men of truth’. Not arrogant, but not slanderers or attention seekers either.

The Bible says:
Lev 19:16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people

Maybe the Angela likes to have someone she can look down upon, just like those lags in jail. But I just don’t see scripture saying that is a qualification for high office, do you?

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