Does Andrew’s Epstein-related arrest show that Britain is more equal than Trump’s America? That’s a weird reading of a case exposing how grotesquely all monarchies, even now, intertwine extreme privilege with exceptional impunity
The arrest of a man formerly known as prince, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, is consequential because the affairs of this scandal-scarred brother of Britain’s reigning monarch seem a grotesque link between old world and new, the entitled aristocracy and modern-day plutocracy.