Prince Andrew should be banished into Scottish ‘exile’

What to do with the prince formerly known as Andrew, as we may soon call him? It's not such a lighthearted question, because the more we learn about his association with Jeffrey Epstein, and the more serious the crimes associated with the dead paedophile financier seem to be, the more vexed the prince's status becomes.

- SEAN O'GRADY

We are even now told, via Virginia Giuffre's painful posthumous memoir, that, according to her account, Andrew took part in an orgy with Epstein himself and about eight other young girls. To this day, Andrew denies even meeting Giuffre - but this is one of the more sensational and disturbing revelations to emerge from this protracted saga.

The British royal family has produced a long and inglorious line of libertines - the Prince Regent, Edward VII, the last Duke of Clarence - but Andrew may have surpassed them all. The two dull King Georges and the late Queen Elizabeth II, who ran The Firm for most of the last century, were a bit of an aberration. The hereditary principle cuts both ways.