I'm not much of a Royalist, if i had my way they would all be turfed out and Buckingham Palace would be bulldozed for a football pitch but as i am not far enough up the chain of command to expel the King and his family, they carry on sitting there collecting tens of millions of our tax for doing very little, bloated, slow and largely clueless and that's just Prince Andrew who is in the news for another scandal, this time befriending a Chinese spy.
Following his friendship with pedophile Jeffery Epstein, the £12 million over handed to Virginia Giuffre to stop her testifying in a sex assault case, the car crash of a BBC interview where his already low reputation sunk beneath sea level and now his links to Yang Tengbo who police found a message on his phone which advised him to target Andrew because : 'He was in a desperate situation and will grab on to anything'.
Where the Queen seemed to have his back and deep pockets with regards to the sexual assault case, King Charles doesn't seem to be so warm and fuzzy towards his brother and has told him not to attend the Royal Christmas Day meetings at Sandringham Palace to: 'separate from the perceived activities of the Duke of York' as one Royal source put it.
The Duke of York has a history of the problem with his lack of judgement and his finances with the security bill for his 30 mansion Lodge in Windsor running to several million pounds per year although he doesn't receive any public funding from the Sovereign Grant.
We can assume he inherited a pretty bundle from his mother but the rush to money always seem to outweigh his financial situation with links to dodgy Turkish businessmen and even reported to have taken loans from a deposed Tunisian president to pay off his debts so it is easy to see why China saw him as a weak link because he really will grab onto anything, including 17 year old girls in Jeffrey Epstein's house which is where all his troubles began.