Royal Flush
FOR A WEEK or two in November, we seemed to be up to our necks in the strange, anachronistic and sometimes downright creepy world of the royal family.
The background hum of vapid fawning and gossip never really goes away, thanks to those platforms that find the doings of the wider Windsor clan to be a proven earner. But the unfolding of three very different media events in the middle of the month generated an exceptional, almost unavoidable flood of coverage.
The most newsworthy of the three, by far, was the BBC interview with the Queen’s second son, Prince Andrew, about his friendship with American financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Facing growing criticism over his proven links with a man who was jailed for procuring an underage girl for prostitution, and allegations that he
