During the interview, Andrew also said that he now considers his friendship with Epstein, whom he reportedly met through British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell in the ‘90s, a mistake. When asked about his decision to stay in Epstein’s mansion during his 2010 trip to New York, the royal told the BBC, "It was a convenient place to stay.” He added that “with a benefit of all the hindsight that one can have, it was definitely the wrong thing to do. But at the time I felt it was the honorable and right thing to do and I admit fully that my judgment was probably colored by my tendency to be too honorable but that's just the way it is."