So the slow-motion defenestration of the Andrew formerly known as Prince continues.
Following a ‘discussion with the king’ earlier this month, he had already been forced to give up the title of the Duke of York, as well as membership of Order of the Garter, the most senior order of knighthood in Britain’s honours system. If the royal family’s intention was to draw a line under the scandal-ridden Andrew – forever sullied by his friendship with the world’s most notorious nonce, Jeffrey Epstein – it failed spectacularly. The publication a few days later of Nobody’s Girl, the posthumous memoir of poor Virginia Giuffre, saw to that.
