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I’m losing track now of how many times I’ve had to revise my definition of rock bottom to think about what has happened to Prince Andrew over the past few years. Or rather, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, as he will henceforth be called, after King Charles III announced Thursday that he will officially be stripped of the prince title.

I can think of a few other, less publishable sobriquets that formerly prince Andrew will come to be known by, but there it is. Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, just a regular man with a second name like the other human beings with whom he purports to share a species. He’ll also have to move out of Royal Lodge and into part of the Sandringham

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