"Incredible news for residents of the likes of Prince Andrew Drive and Prince Andrew Way, who in recent years have sought name changes from their local councils to remove the unfortunate association with You Know Who. Thanks to last night's historically dramatic action by the king, the dignity of those aforementioned small stretches of Britain has been restored. (If anyone happens to live in Andrew Mountbatten Windsor Close, my commiserations.) But has the dignity of the British monarchy current custodians: the House of Windsor"
"The royal family's crises have not been external for some time. It is not beset by marauding forces, or rival claimants to its throne, or parliamentarian revolt. All its greatest crises in the past few decades have come from within. Those crises have been marital, financial, even clinical - and have just avoided being criminal. The royal family has proved its own worst enemy. The things that have happened have not happened to it, but because of it. The call's coming from inside the castle."
Local streets named for Prince Andrew regained dignity after the king's dramatic action, but the monarchy itself remains vulnerable. The monarchy's crises have been internal for decades, arising from marital, financial and clinical scandals that have nearly crossed into criminality. The royal family has repeatedly been its own worst enemy, with damaging events occurring because of its actions rather than to it. The de-princing of Prince Andrew represents a philosophical blow that could accelerate institutional decline. Analysts may later view the enforced commoner-ing of Andrew as a significant turning point in the monarchy's unraveling.
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