How King Charles Pulled the Plug on Andrew

Tina Brown: “For the king, the latest round of Andrew sleaze could not have been more infuriatingly timed. After months of diplomatic planning, Buckingham Palace was intent on creating a clear media window for the king’s historic visit to the Vatican, during which an English monarch and a pontiff would pray together in the Sistine Chapel for the first time since Henry VIII bailed from Rome in 1534.”

“Now, for fuck’s sake, this ecclesiastical milestone would be overshadowed by the mephitic mist of the Andrew scandal.”