LONDON—Saying the accusations made in opposition to him over time weren’t simply disgusting however patently false, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, advised reporters Monday the scandal over his alleged pedophilia was simply Buckingham Palace’s try to cowl up his ongoing battle with most cancers. “Sadly, quite than being sincere a couple of very severe menace to my well being, my household and its advisors selected to distract the general public from my doubtlessly terminal situation by spreading terrible rumors that I had slept with younger teenage prostitutes,” stated the embattled royal, including that the longstanding allegations that he had engaged in intercourse with a 17-year-old at Ghislaine Maxwell’s house in London and took part in an orgy with a number of underage women on Jeffrey Epstein’s non-public island have been all a part of a ploy to maintain his tragic prognosis non-public. “The reality is, all of the witnesses who declare I groped them or sexually assaulted them after they have been being trafficked as minors have been paid a hefty price by the palace to maintain the highlight off my lengthy, arduous battle with most cancers, which is a horrible illness. Quite a bit worse than being compelled to have intercourse with somebody, I ought to assume.” Andrew went on to ask the press for house throughout this troublesome time, saying he was nonetheless looking for one of the best ways to clarify his most cancers to the various confused and saddened underage girls in his life.