With the Platinum Jubilee over, the wait was on for the next royal bun-fight that could unite us all in joyous celebration, and now we have it: the Duke of York is having a bad week.
First he was branded an “absolute fool” by a Frenchwoman who sued him over a debt relating to his Swiss ski chalet. Then, earlier this week, came the news that he was banned from taking part in the Garter Day procession around Windsor, waving regally to tourists and television cameras while dressed in blue velvet robes and a plumed hat. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge appear to have considered the optics for a nanosecond before saying words to the effect of “over my dead body”.
