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The End of the British Monarchy
Horatio:
He waxes desperate with imagination.Marcellus:
Let’s follow. ’Tis not fit thus to obey him.Horatio:
Have after. To what issue will this come?Marcellus:
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.Horatio:
Heaven will direct it.Marcellus:
Nay, let’s follow him. [Exeunt.]
(Hamlet, Act-I, Scene-IV, Lines 87–91)
One lives in a country where the Royal Family or ‘The Firm’ — as they are referred to by themselves in private and by those who see them and know them for what they really are — still continues to behave and operate as if they are above the law and behave with the connivance of those who are tasked with bringing those suspected of an offence to justice. The stench of corruption in Britain is now everywhere but it has now become rotten to the core in those in Authority, whether political, or historic.
This was evidenced very starkley when Andrew Windsor, the second son of the recently passed Duke of Edinburgh gave the car crash interview with the BBC on ‘Newsnight’ in November 2019. Asked for his response to allegations against him made by one of Epstein’s accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, that they had had sex at Ghislaine Maxwell’s house in Belgravia in 2001, Andrew denied the claim and…