Prince Andrew will have to step down if he fails to make some effort at repentance
How do you sack a prince? Now it is open season on him, appropriately enough for a man who regards a weekend’s shooting of game on a grand royal estate as a perfectly routine way to spend his leisure time. Plainly stepping back from public duties may not be enough to satisfy an appalled public, with the prospect of the duke being questioned by the FBI as a strong one for the medium term, as the various cases concerning Epstein make their slow progress through the American courts. As the Prince of Wales starts to think about the monarchy’s medium-term future, it was always going to be difficult for the increasingly marginal Yorks to play much of a useful role, and certainly not a constitutional one. And the public opinion about Prince Andrew could not be clearer: the less seen and heard of him the better, unless the welcome news arrives that he is doing something concrete about helping his former friend Epstein’s victims.
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