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The Guardian - UK
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Polly Hudson

Prince Andrew should never be allowed to return to public life

Prince Andrew in 2025.
‘A staggering degree of tone deafness’ … Prince Andrew in 2025. Photograph: Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images

Everyone talks about Prince Andrew’s “fall from grace” but that raises an awkward question. When exactly was his grace period? Admittedly, even the most cynical among us aren’t immune to royal wedding fever, and when he married Fergie the nation was still high on the fumes from Charles and Diana’s nuptials, so perhaps he was briefly popular in 1986. But other than that? Pretty confident recollections wouldn’t vary here. Nada.

So technically we can’t call the events that have transpired since that brief moment in the sun a fall from grace. It’s more accurate to classify them as many falls from “meh”.

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