Andrew has lost his titles but his lofty opinion of himself and his close family remains undiminished.
Sources have suggested the disgraced Duke had long coveted the stunning Adelaide Cottage for one of his daughters and now, despite also not being a working royal, it appears Princess Eugenie quite fancies moving into a grace-and-favour pad next to her grandmother’s Windsor Castle home.
But future kings Charles and William are both known to be in favour of streamlining the Royal Family.
They will now have to pull their relatives in line with the idea, which, this episode shows, will be a tough task.