As was very clear when Emily Maitlis verbally evicerated Prince Andrew like a prize-winning butcher working in a pig carcass, he utterly lacks the intelligence and mental agility to deal with covering up something he has done by either evading questions, or being quick enough to lie plausibly.
No wonder his legal people won't let him within a continent of the FBI, and want to send his responses to their questions in writing, which they can write for him of course, since he would lack the ability to do that either.
The problem is, when you are as high-profile as the Prince is (was) and you have been as objectionable and arrogant as he has (is) for so long, you make serious enimies in the media.
The Mail has the resoruces and the time and the access to comprehensively dismantle all his fatuous fumbling nonsense piece by piece, and they are clearly intent on doing so.
It appears they have even more to reveal, so it's not going to end well for him.
Any personal sympathy I might have held for Prince Andrew - because let's be honest, being thick is a factor of birth, and being over-indulged and having your odious personality encouraged by a doting mother is a fact of life beyond his control - evaporated the moment Ms Maitlis asked him if he regretted meeting Epstein.
The reply, which requires absolutely no thought whatsoever, even from someone as mentally challenged as he is, is along the lines of "I wish I'd never set eyes on him ..." delivered with force and conviction.
What did the prince say?
"No I don't regret it, he opened a lot of doors for me ..."
Since the media is now going to expose how many of those doors were bedroom doors with damaged, manipulated, badly used young women behind them, is going to haunt him to his dying day.