If it were not because Brexit takes the palm in the category of national disaster, 2019 would lead the way to becoming the Second Year Horribilis of Isabel II. The interview granted to the BBC by his second son, Prince Andrew , to try to explain his relationship with the American millionaire and pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein, has already been described by the British media as the biggest public communication disaster of recent times. And it has raised serious doubts about the queen's ability to bring order to a Royal Family ( The Firm , the company, as it is known in the press) that again bothers the citizens of the United Kingdom. At the moment, the crisis does not seem to reach the levels of that famous Annus Horribilis of 1992 in which the British lived day by day the separation of Charles from England and Diana Spencer, that of Prince Andrew and Sarah Fergusson, and the image of the castle of Windsor on fire. But the implications of everything that happened this year have the germ of a much more serious institutional credibility crisis. The 93-year-old queen was grossly used by Boris Johnson to lock the parliament,and the Supreme Court had to do a legal engineering exercise to annul and reverse the decision without splashing the monarch. The disastrous interview granted by the Dukes of Sussex, Prince Enrique and his wife Meghan Markle to ITV, during their recent trip through South Africa, presented the image of two spoiled with serious conflicts with freedom of the press, eager to fly free without dispensing with of the public treasury and manifestly critical of the third in the line of succession, Enrique's brother, Prince William. But nothing could have been worse than Prince Andrew's interview - the queen's lifetime favorite - to journalist Emily Maitlis. The chain of bizarre, evasive explanations, half truths and even arrogant justifications of the Duke of York to justify his friendship with Epstein, his visit to New York after he was convicted of sexual abuse, and his alleged sexual relationship with a minor provided by the American millionaire, they have scandalized a multitude of citizens. The list of nonsense is wide: The Pizza Express party If Andres was unable to remember at any time that he had met Virginia Roberts (Today Virginia Giuffre, after adopting her husband's name), he displayed during the interview a prodigious memory to affirm that, on the night of August 10, 2001 It was impossible that he had sex with the 17-year-old girl because he had taken his daughter Beatrice that afternoon to a party at the Woking Pizza Express restaurant. Before the journalist's amazement, the Duke of York explained that he remembered perfectly because for him it was not normal for what is routine for any father. The disease that did not let him sweat Giuffre remembers how, the night he drank and danced with Andrew at the Tramp nightclub in London, the Duke of York "sweated profusely." His prepared response to what was still an anecdote, which he wanted to present in the interview as a final argument, made headlines: "It is impossible, because at that time I did not sweat. I had suffered an adrenaline overdose during my participation in the Falklands War, when we received enemy fire. Since then my sweat was cut off, and I only went back to sweat after years. I suffered from a special medical condition. " It is called anhidrosis, and only The Times has taken the trouble to explain the medical basis of an excuse that the rest of the media have taken to recochineo. The "positive role" of man Maitlis insisted during the interview if the prince had had sexual relations with any of the minors Epstein used for years as "sex slaves." And it was at that moment when the defensive logic of the Duke of York showed that his mentality is with some years of delay compared to that of the rest of his fellow citizens. "Without pretending to spin fine, when you are a man, you must have a positive attitude if you want to have sex with someone. You must take the initiative, which is difficult to forget. And I do not remember anything at all," he explained. It was worth knowing Epstein Prince Andrew, who after his heroic participation in the Falklands War assumed the role of Special Representative for Foreign Trade of the United Kingdom, tried to justify his friendship - "not as close as they say," he insisted - with Epstein, and his repeated visits to his mansions in New York, Miami and the Bahamas, for the professional benefits he reported. "The people I could meet, and the opportunities I had to learn new things thanks to him or through him were very useful," he justified. The "improper" behavior of the millionaire Andrés explained that it was his firm conviction that he should "show leadership" in this matter that led him to travel to New York to tell Epstein in person that they should stop seeing each other. What did not prevent him, once the "bad drink" passed, to stay in the mansion of Central Park of the American millionaire four more days. He was obliged to treat him, he said, because he was his friend Ghislaine Maxwell's boyfriend, despite his "improper" behavior. - "Impropio? He was convicted of sexual abuse ...", the journalist replied in amazement. - "Sorry. I was just trying to be polite. I said improper in the sense that he was a sex offender," Andres explained. The compromising photo The British media published the photograph, taken in the apartment of Ghislaine Maxwell in the London neighborhood of Belgravia in 2001, in which Andres grabs the waist in the air of Virginia Roberts. The Duke of York is unable to categorically deny that it was he who appeared in the snapshot, but he had no qualms about feeding the doubts that his allies had extended months before about the veracity of the photo. In his case, however, he avoided expressly pointing out how those "chubby" fingers did not belong to him. Things have gotten complicated for the Duke of York in the hours after a comparative interview and a "traffic accident." Some media point out that Buckingham Palace was not informed of the decision to expand before the cameras for almost an hour more than when it was already an almost accomplished fact. The US FBI intends to interrogate Andres and the main British opposition party, the Labor, has expressed support for that interrogation. At least a couple of companies that collaborate with the philanthropic activities of the Duke have publicly admitted that they are rethinking their help. The students of the University of Huddersfield, to whose directive council Andrés belongs, have tried to force his expulsion. Prime Minister Boris Johnson And the question that floats today in the United Kingdom, in an attempt to discharge responsibilities from the shoulders of Isabel II, is: Did any member of the Government supervise this whole disaster? The YouGov express survey reveals that half of the British (47%) are convinced that Prince Andrew has damaged the Monarchy with his performance, compared with 23% who think otherwise. And only 6% of them believe they have told the truth.