Prince Andrew stepped down from his royal duties after an interview with the BBC last month DPAThe Archbishop of Canterbury appeared to defend the Duke of York over the Jeffrey Epstein scandal yesterday, saying that it was wrong to expect the royal family to be “superhuman saints”. The Most Rev Justin Welby declined to name any royal specifically but when asked about the controversy, replied: “Everybody makes mistakes, everybody is human.”Speaking to The Big Issue magazine for its Christmas edition, he said that he was “astonished at what a gift [the royals] are to this country”. Prince Andrew gave up his royal duties last month after a BBC interview in which he failed to express sympathy for Epstein’s victims. The American financier killed himself in jail in August while awaiting trial for the sex trafficking of minors. One of Epstein’s…

Source: The Times December 17, 2019 00:33 UTC