‘Australians don’t want a bar of this bloke, frankly.’ That’s what Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese, said today after calling for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to be banished from the line of succession to the throne.

It’s not just in Britain that there’s public and media pressure for parliamentary action to remove Andrew’s succession rights

It’s not just in Britain that there’s public and media pressure for parliamentary action to remove Andrew’s succession rights

It’s no exaggeration to say that Australians are revolted by the abundant evidence of Mountbatten-Windsor’s relationship with the disgraced financier and paedophile, Jeffrey Epstein. Their picture of him is an unpleasant and unsavoury man, undeserving of public sympathy. The latest revelations from the Epstein files, which led to last week’s arrest of the disgraced former prince, have not made Mountbatten-Windsor any more sympathetic, in spite of his continued denials of any wrongdoing.

Last week the arrested Mountbatten-Windsor was released under investigation but is as yet uncharged. He has already had lost his princely status, titles and honours – King Charles made sure of that. But only Parliament can remove that last trapping of Mountbatten-Windsor’s royal status: his place in the line........

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