{"id":281085,"date":"2026-01-12T16:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T16:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/281085\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T16:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T16:25:12","slug":"from-edward-vii-to-andrew-why-the-british-royal-familys-crises-seem-to-echo-down-the-generations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/281085\/","title":{"rendered":"From Edward VII to Andrew, why the British royal family\u2019s crises seem to echo down the generations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\n\u2018One of the consequences of entitlement is that some will go rogue when left unchecked\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"King Edward VII and Andrew Mountbatten Windsor severely damaged royal reputation\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SF Royals.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">King Edward VII and Andrew Mountbatten Windsor severely damaged royal reputation<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">As the scandal consuming Andrew Mountbatten- Windsor spiralled out of control last year the British Royal family endured another annus horribilis. As somebody with a background in public relations I am scratching my head wondering who is advising this family as they stumble from one crisis to the next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I am reminded of the line spoken by Tony Blair in the film The Queen in the aftermath of Diana\u2019s death when, in exasperation, he exclaims of the Royals \u2013 \u201cwill somebody please save these people from themselves\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018One of the consequences of entitlement is that some will go rogue when left unchecked\u2019 King Edward VII&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,23942],"class_list":{"0":"post-281085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-people-culture-magazine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115883063839326958","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}