Prince Andrew’s current predicament has just prompted author Christopher Smithers to write a piece for it Express UK where he has highlighted the former duke’s downfall as well as current issues.
For those unaware, just a few days ago Prince Andrew released a public statement via Bucknigham Palace. In it, he pledged to renounce public use of his titles and honors to “put my duty to my family and my country first”.
However, it did not go over as expected with many people calling on Parliament to take action to properly strip Prince Andrew of said titles, rather than just not using them in public.
Later, however, comments by his late accuser Virginia Giuffre in her memoir Nobody’s Girl noted some of his more shocking personality traits, which have been called ‘entitled’.
This led the writer to note how this decision may affect this ‘sense of entitlement’ that the prince allegedly felt, according to Mrs Giuffre, when it came to having sexual relations with her.
“Andrew was untouchable for easily understandable reasons which he clearly felt he was entitled to exploit to the full as and when the mood took him,” the pundit began by saying.
And “on a human level and under any other circumstances, very few people who have such extreme feelings of entitlement would be tolerated, and society as a whole has a funny habit of leveling the playing field,” added Mr. Smithers.
That’s why he feels “the loss of his titles levels the playing field somewhat, and the sheer amount of brouhaha surrounding it is enough to make one dizzy.”
