Even the Prince of Wales has felt able to make an oblique reference to the allegations levelled at his uncle, the former Prince Andrew, remarking on his arrival at last night’s Bafta Awards that he had not yet seen the film Hamnet as he was “not in a calm state” such that he could enjoy it.
The same can obviously be said for the rest of the family. Yet parliament, the supposed cockpit of the nation, remains constrained by ancient convention from raising the behaviour of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in any significant way, let alone freely debating the future of the monarchy itself. This may not now be a sustainable, or even a helpful, state of affairs, even for the House of Windsor itself.
Why has it come up now?
Mountbatten-Windsor, though no longer
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