The men are coming up the drive to lynch Prince Andrew, theoretical Duke of York

'The most important, and comforting, thing to emerge from all that Wiki-Leaks business was that, by and large, we were right. All the things we suspected, or knew either instinctively or through common sense, were proved to be correct. Prince Andrew — arrogant, rude and with the IQ of a corgi? Yep.'

Rod Liddle, in the Spectator issue of 8 December 2010.15 years went past since I read that?

"Failure is not the only penalty for sloth. There is also the success of ones friends." I have to say that my friend Andrew Lownie's book on King Edward VIII was very well written. We knew in Lady Diana Mosley's words that 'of course he was much more right-wing than my husband. '

Andrew does not make the charge of trreaon stick, in my opinion. His evidence that Edward wanted Germany to bomb England rests on the word of a Spanish spy repeating back to his bosses what they wanted to hear.

The allegations in Andrew's new book on Prince Andrew are salacious and thanks to it and the accusation of paedophilia there is a sort of hysteria apparently in the old country which reminds me of what happened when Diana died.

Andrew thinks the Duke of York, as he still is, should go to gaol. 

I have no idea what crime he is supposed to have committed at least in the United Kingdom.

I suppose that might come out and, if so, involve money, not sex.

Perhaps involving the Middle East.

A barrister Facebook friend put it well:

'For a price of approximately £8.5M (£1M payment for the lease and £7.5M for renovations which would otherwise have had to be paid by the Crown Estate) Prince Andrew was granted, in 2003, a 75 year lease, at a peppercorn rent, of Royal Lodge. It has been confirmed that neither the late Queen nor the present King (nor, indeed, any other member of the royal family) paid any part of those millions. Obviously, the taxpayer also paid nothing for the Prince's acquisition of the lease. 

'Tabloid journalists, Sir Keir Starmer and Mr Jenrick have concluded from those facts (and from the allegation that he once had consensual carnal knowledge of a 17 year-old girl) that Prince Andrew should be made homeless. I have to say that I don't understand their reasoning.'

By the way it was long obvious Andrew is inhumanly stupid. Not stupid like most politicians but so stupid as to be unemployable. Most members of royal families are. His last intelligent ancestor may have been the Electress Sophia who almost ascended the throne in 1714 but died after being caught in a rainstorm.

Andrew is also very unpleasant and he is even more vulgar than the old Prince of Wales (who was later very briefly King Edward VIII).  

Remember Lady Diana Cooper said no man ever was or ever will be as common as the Prince of Wales. 

Andrew has proven her wrong.

'Do you like it up the bum?' was a chat up line of his.

Andrew is a leading literary agent and knows how to keep his book in the news.

In interviews Andrew has said the Duke of Edinburgh was very promiscuous and the King very ill.

It is very good that Epstein remains hot news but bad too - because these stories about Prince Andrew are a distraction from the main question: for whom was Epstein working?

On this the media display a sublime lack of curiosity.