Panned old Duke of York in a sorry state

MY CHAMPAGNE GLASS IS ALWAYS HALF FULL

- VIRGINIA BLACKBURN

LORDY, lordy and lawks-a-mercy, can it get any worse?

Just when you think there are no depths left for the Yorks to plumb, up they turn, laughing and joking at a funeral shortly before it turns out that Sarah Ferguson was sending apologies to Jeffrey Epstein after publicly promising to have nothing to do with him. There was I, on the verge of feeling sorry for the Yorks so comprehensively have they been made to pay for their behaviour, before it turns out that matters were even worse than we thought.