Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor may have skulked out of Windsor to go and live on the Sandringham estate but the Mirror’s royal editor Russell Myers says it’s not a case of out of sight, out of mind for the King
Under the cloak of darkness, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor this week skulked out of Windsor and into exile. The King and the rest of his family may wish it was that easy. But after weeks of further uncomfortable headlines, the former prince was left in no doubt of the King’s fury over his continued desire to tough it out.
Andrew’s brazen attitude has been his eventual undoing, a sense of superiority above others, a rancid characteristic that has continued even when stripped down by his brother and finally packed off in disgrace and onto the royals’ Sandringham estate. Out of sight he may well be, out of mind another.
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Pictures that emerged this week of Andrew continuing to waltz around Windsor like he owned the place, riding the King’s horses without a care in the world and waving to passers by from his car brought the disgraced former Duke’s moving plans into action far sooner than he had envisioned.
With millions of documents relating to Epstein’s sickening web of abuse being combed through by journalists around the world, Andrew did not even have the sense to lie low. And this was before the truly questionable image of him on all fours over an unidentified woman emerged.
By now we are all well aware of what sort of a person Andrew is. He may well have always denied the allegations of abuse labelled at him, but with every new email uncovered, every compromising photo published and further evidence presented of just how deep he was in Epstein’s web.
Banished to Sandringham, stripped of his titles, honours and forced to give up the last crumb of status by being evicted from his Royal Lodge mansion, Andrew has nothing left. Yet there is a feeling inside the palace that the story is not over. How can it be?
The calls for Andrew to hand himself over to US investigators as a witness to Epstein’s crimes will continue to grow. Far from the King dragging him over to America himself, it must be left up to Andrew’s conscience to do the right thing.
But the case remains, a life lived for his own personal gain, where status and money mattered above all else, why would he now have a change of heart.
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