Bathtime pictures won’t save Prince Andrew

As the furore about Prince Harry and Spare finally shows some signs of dying down – the book’s second week sales dropped 82 per cent, albeit with a wildly impressive 82,538 copies sold – it is time, once again, for his uncle to take centre stage. It seems as if the beleaguered and not-so-grand Duke of York has been involved in one scandal after another recently, and this week has been no exception.

Firstly, it has been made clear by King Charles that his disgraced brother can have no further official dealings with Buckingham Palace. His offices in the building have been closed down and he has now been informed that he will no longer be able to use the suite of rooms that he had access to, which – if the more sensational coverage is to be believed – he used as a kind of mid-life crisis bachelor pad. He is to be offered accommodation at St James’s Palace instead, if he needs it.