“She won’t go quietly, that’s the problem. I’ll fight to the end,” so said the late Princess Diana, referring to herself, three decades ago in her explosive Panorama interview, laying bare the tensions her failed marriage to then-Prince Charles had caused between the “people’s princess” and the core Royal Family.

That rift has uncomfortable echoes today as another troublesome blue-blood is induced to “go quietly”. After lengthy and tense negotiations about his status and entitlements in the wake of more damaging revelations about Prince Andrew’s entanglement in the sleaze and cover-ups surrounding his friendship with the late paedophile and trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein, the fallen prince has announced that he will no longer use his many titles or honours .

Agreeing that he will no l

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