God save the Queen - from her own family: When will Charles and Andrew realise the age of deference is over? asks JAN MOIR
The Queen told visitors this week: ‘As you can see, I can’t move.’ Well, Ma’am, that is so very true in so very many different ways.
As scandal continues to buffet the Palace, a black squall rolling in, with Storm Andrew closely followed by Storm Charles That upstairs/downstairs world has gone for ever; now they are as accountable as any butler or footman or chancer or crook when it comes to allegations of sexual abuse or of a potential cash for honours disgrace.
As scandals explode around the Windsors like long-buried ordnance finally igniting, Andrew and Charles must be realising that the age of deference is well and truly over Yet there comes a point in every adult’s life when you have to stop blaming your parents and take responsibility for yourself. Prince Harry has yet to reach that point.
Really, what more could HM have done? She is about to celebrate a jubilee that commemorates 70 years of service — an incredible achievement. Most of us have never known a time when she was not our Head of State. But instead of an unclouded jamboree unfolding over the coming months, there is the stink of Andrew’s multi-million pound pay-off and now a police investigation linked to Charles’s charities. No mother deserves this.
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