Yesterday evening's terse and grammatically-challenged statement from Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, withdrawing from public duties, was a bombshell. The Queen and Charles orchestrated it quickly, and with as much mercy as they could muster. Here's what it means going forward.
One Of The Few Events At Which We Will See Him: Princess Anne, Princess Royal, Princess Beatrice,Lady Louise Windsor, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, Queen Elizabeth II, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, Princess Charlotte of Cambridge, Savannah Phillips, Prince George of Cambridge and Isla Phillips watch the flypast on the balcony of Buckingham Palace during Trooping The...
No less important, the Duke of York faces a tremendous social and professional liability, to which he is apparently blind, in his continued close relationship with his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, whose excruciating history of desperate, ill-advised moves, such as attempting to sell access to Andrew in a newspaper sting for $650,000 in 2010, is legendary in Britain. The rule of thumb is, when Ms. Ferguson deems that she needs an infusion of cash, it's the devil take the hindmost....
The business end of the Firm, as the Royal Family is familiarly called, is in patronages. The patronages can be as simple and straightforward as Harry's Sentebale charity, which benefits HIV-affected children in Lesotho and Botswana and which the prince admirably created in 2004 after a gap year in Lesotho.
Given the criminal substance of the scandal, pedophilia and trafficking, the schools' and children's charities who have benefited from the prince's fundraising skills are very keenly motivated to remove his name. The administration of the University of Huddersfield, in Yorkshire, had been pleased to have Andrew assuming the role of Chancellor, but this week, post-BBC interview, the Huddersfield student body has understandably erupted in protest, which at this writing continues.
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