I'm not proclaiming Andrew dumb and innocent, because I believe he is guilty, slimy and crooked. But as I think about it, there are a lot of celebrity types and very wealthy not celebrities who a re in the orbit of the RF, not to mention their "set" of nobility, lesser royals, etc. and any one among them may be involved in something salacious and vile.

Wasn't Pippa Middleton's father-in-law just involved in something that very quickly got hushed up? And when you considered the possibilities, drugs, sexual perversions, money and crooked business issues, etc. why, hell, they're just like the rest of the world.

It's sort of like the Catholic Church as an institution. It's rotten through and through, even including bank fraud to add to the laundry list of sexual perversions. I don't have any illusions about Royals. But what pisses me off is that they, like the priests of the Church, are shielded from paying the consequences for their reprehensible behavior.

Now, IMO the Church is worse because they have been represented as above everyone, teaching, lecturing and judging Good & Evil and sort of keeping civilized society on a righteous path. That's the whole point of their existence: To teach and guide people to "be good" so they can go to heaven. While they themselves are as corrupt and disgusting as it's possible to be.

I know that through the ages there have been corrupt, dangerous, perverted royals, and it was "handled" quietly, out of the public eye. But that is no longer possible. Just as the priests who break the laws of the state are subject to prosecution. (When Thomas Beckett, Archbishop of Canterbury refused to turn over a corrupt priest who broke the civil law he had a major falling out with Henry II, because the issue was who could prosecute a priest. Henry said he should be liable to the state, Beckett said no, he was only answerable to the Church. Beckett was killed.)

Now, with the Crown, a few centuries ago they could legitimately claim that they were the state, and answerable to no one but God, and so were above the laws of men. But even then, The Sovereign had a mechanism to deal with Royals. Anne Boleyn had to go before some tribunal, at court to be convicted of witchcraft & adultery.

So I guess what I'd like to know is whether or not there is a mechanism within the monarchy, that would investigate, try and convict/sentence a Royal who broke the law? It's an antiquated system, and I think for at least two or three centuries the people of the realm have demanded accountability from the Crown. But something has to be done about Andrew and anyone else who commits heinous crimes.