{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/641338125bde790011089c5b/699f86a91eb5ccf45649b4a2?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":" Defence of the Realm: Prince Andrew, Mountbatten and the British Establishment’s protection racket","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/641338125bde790011089c5b/1772059697276-605fd857-325c-4577-bc6e-e3358a3fe667.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>In the House of Commons, a Labour minister described Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor as a ‘man on a constant self-aggrandising and self-enriching hustle; a rude, arrogant and entitled man who could not distinguish between the public interest, which he said he served, and his own private interest’.</p><p>This is undoubtedly true but is Andrew the exception or the norm?</p><p>On Free State we look how the establishment has protected the monarchy at all costs.</p><p>We recall the horrific abuse in Kincora and the work done by Chris Moore to uncover Louis Mountbatten’s part in that scandal.</p><p>When the future of the monarchy is discussed, is what has been revealed in the Epstein files an aberration or simply another chapter in a long history of self enriching hustle and worse?</p>","author_name":"Gold Hat Productions"}