Prince Andrew was publicly humiliated yesterday, forced to renounce his ducal title, and is now a duke only in memory.
Buckingham Palace is furiously spinning the stripping of his titles as the personification of a resolute monarch, but let’s be very clear: the practical author of Andrew’s public annihilation is his nephew, the Prince of Wales.
The announcement may have come from the office of the king, but it was William who wrote the latest chapter (one dare not say the ending because I’m told William still believes too many privileges remain to Andrew).
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Readers of The Royalist (unlike those of the craven British newspapers) will be well aware of the central fact informing and underpinning this entire story: that King Charles III is dying.