Andrew has no Trump card to play

COMMONER CALL: Last week's deadline to speak to US officials was missed

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IS the Andrew formerly known as Prince still a royal? I suppose he must be. Mr Mountbatten Windsor may have lost all his titles, but he’s still eighth in line to the throne (though it would take a plotline as fiendish as Dennis Price’s in black comedy Kind Hearts And Coronets to grant him the accession).

Watching Andrew is increasingly like watching a poker player holding, what has become obvious to all, a losing hand. It’s only a matter of time before he folds.

And in Andrew’s case, folding could mean just one thing — extradition to the United States. Don’t take my word for it.

Respected writer and historian Andrew Lownie, author of this year’s meticulously researched bestseller Entitled: The Rise And Fall of the House of York, is quietly certain of two things.