Andrew's actions must not damage entire monarchy

T seems that barely a dawn breaks without yet more unsavoury and upsetting revelations about the man formerly known as Prince Andrew being brought to our horrified collective attention.

- Alan Grant

Mountbatten-Windsor following his arrest last month

His connection with the dead paedophile, Jeffrey Epstein, firmly established, it has been a perpetual cavalcade of horrors and a glimpse into a world that even the most provocative modernist novelist would find hard to stomach.

That every right-thinking individual, in possession of serviceable moral equipment and a sense of decency, wants to see justice done and the victims given support, and such restitution as is possible in the circumstances is obvious. We can but hope they get at least part of it.

The nature of the ex-Prince's actions and with whom they are connected is the stuff that thankfully I get to leave to other columnists, not having the stomach to read much about such things myself.

However, I have noticed some people are using the actions of one, now rightly and completely ostracised, member of the royal family to undermine constitutional monarchy in the United Kingdom, and that is much more in my wheelhouse.

I see what they are doing.