KEVIN MAGUIRE

FORCED by public and political pressure to finally sacrifice a sleazy brother to save his throne, King Charles the Weak putting family before country for so long crowns a sordid scandal.

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Now banishing slimeball sibling Andrew to the security of a comfortable life in a five-bed home on the sprawling Sandringham estate was no heroic, principled stand to internally exile the paedophile's friend.

Dithering, evasive, prevaricating Charles was bounced into doing the right thing only by a clamour growing deafening and neatly encapsulated by the heckler outside Lichfield Cathedral, who asked how long had the King known about his brother and convicted sex monster Jeffrey Epstein.

We still do not know the answer, Buckingham Palace crossing fingers the stripping of titles and eviction from Royal Lodge will quieten this stomach-churning drama.

I wouldn't be quite so sure, rackety royals.