BY STEPHEN PAX LEONARD Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is the Underground Man Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Underground is the pseudonymous monologue of a spiteful and bitter former government official who inherited a sufficient amount of money not to need to work again and devoted his life to vice. Dostoyevsky’s philosophical novella is concerned with the hypothetical utopia where all of man’s needs are met, where everything is safe … Continue reading The Underground Man
BY PAUL T HORGAN Perhaps it was all inevitable. Any non-American fingered as an associate of Jeffrey Epstein would be publicly disgraced and ostracised. Epstein, after all, was a paedophile, and this was public knowledge after his first and only conviction. If anyone kept in touch with him thereafter, they did so in the full knowledge that they were consorting with a monster. And yet. … Continue reading The Tragedy of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor
BY STEWART SLATER There are some things it is better not to know about. High on the list is the condition of princely penises, properly a matter of import only to their owners and possibly but not certainly (given the long history of unsuccessful royal marriages) their spouses. But if Prince Harry has chosen to bare his sausage as well as his soul in his … Continue reading A (Partial) Defence of Prince Harry
BY STEWART SLATER “Appalling” the newspapers screamed, reporting the Prince of Wales’ opinion on the government’s plan to deport some asylum seekers to Rwanda, a story deemed important enough to make the front pages and lead the news bulletins. With Clarence House failing to deny the leak, what followed was one of those inversions which the Culture War occasionally throws up – the less than … Continue reading Disgusted of Clarence House
BY PAUL T HORGAN Prince Harry has been in the news quite a lot, and the media seem to be in the process of casting him as the latest incarnation of the dissolute minor royal, a cause of embarrassment to the monarchy, perhaps even calling the monarchy into question. T’was ever thus. This is unfair. Harry has spent his adult life being overshadowed by his older … Continue reading In Defence of Prince Harry
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN Prince Philip’s latest “gaffe” on Sunday has caused something of a storm, predictably. The Duke of Edinburgh was leading a procession of royals to their morning service at St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham on New Year’s Eve when he spotted a man in the crowd who was sporting a long ginger beard. Philip was wishing lots of people a Happy New … Continue reading Having a Laugh
CSM EDITORIAL News yesterday that Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who turns 96 next month, will be stepping down from royal duties this autumn was met with nationwide warmth. The longest serving consort in the nation’s history merits a pat on the back from the nation. “I’m sorry to hear you’re standing down”, one man told him at a royal lunch on Thursday. “Well, … Continue reading Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
