The was a time when the worst thing the man FKA Prince Andrew had done was get divorced. The separation of the erstwhile Duke of York and his then-wife, Sarah Ferguson, was just one disaster that rattled the family back in 1992, leading Queen Elizabeth to dub the year her ‘annus horribilis’ during a speech at the London Guildhall on 24 November.

It was not just Andrew’s looming divorce that caused the late monarch such dismay as the ‘90s kicked off in earnest. That year saw a slew of scandals strike the House of Windsor , who had for so long attempted to position themselves as the pinnacle of British family life. The Princess Royal divorced her husband, Captain Mark Phillips; the fairytale romance of Prince Charles and Princess Diana was more on the rocks than a good whisk

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