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Novak Djokovic, Boris Johnson, The Royal Family or The British People: Who’s Had The Worst Week?
On the week that was…
January is only sixteen days in and it has served up quite a bit of drama on a number of fronts.
And judging by the looks of things, it’s just getting warmed up.
Let’s go with Prince Andrew first, shall we?
An American judge ruled that the Queen’s second son should stand trial for having sex with the then under aged Virginia Roberts (now Giuffre) at the late Jeffrey Epstein’s sprawling villa, twenty years ago.
With the reverberations of the conviction of Ghislane Maxwell for her role in procuring under aged girls for Epstein and his chums, still being felt, her majesty was forced to act to isolate the firm from the foolishness of her son.
This meant that Prince Andrew was stripped of his military honours and his use of the HRH (his royal highness) title.
If anyone thought that the nonagenarian Queen had completely lost her marbles with advancing years, this should serve as a timely reminder that Elizabeth II remains firmly in control of what happens in her family and she would not allow her favourite child to undermine the position of the monarchy in the world. Not now, not ever.