The removal of former Prince Andrew’s royal titles and privileges has been the story of the week, and I suspect by the time you’re reading this we won’t have heard the last of it—even if “Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor” proves to be a much more inconvenient number of characters to put on the front of a tabloid than “Prince Andrew”.
The story certainly appeals to our thirst for black-and-white tales of justice: an apparently arrogant and unrepentant wrongdoer has been cut down to size and stripped of his titles.
Or has he? There seems to be an element of doubt. On Saturday 1 November, the I Newspaper reported that independent MP Rachael Maskell “believes an act of Parliament could still be necessary to ‘completely remove the titles’ from Mountbatten-Windsor. She said there is ‘ambiguity’ over whether Mountbatten-Windsor’s titles have been ‘removed’” (“MP Presses for act to formally remove titles”). He also remains eighth in line for the throne—a reality that the Prime Minister has so far signalled he will not move to undo.
Have we got dogs and human beings mixed up?
Recently I have found myself caught between my love of the Royal Family and my dislike of dogs.I don’t …