{"id":556724,"date":"2025-11-08T06:45:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T06:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/556724\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T06:45:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T06:45:22","slug":"mary-kenny-has-andrew-brought-the-british-royal-family-to-its-marie-antoinette-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/556724\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Kenny: Has Andrew brought the British royal family to its Marie-Antoinette moment?"},"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\">The former prince and his wife have tarnished how the institution is viewed by many \u2013 and given perfect fuel for abolitionists\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has been stripped of his titles amid a renewed wave of anti-monarchy sentiment in Britain. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/df8eac39-669c-4410-9dc5-d2b5bc659333.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)\">Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has been stripped of his titles amid a renewed wave of anti-monarchy sentiment in Britain. Photo: Getty<\/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)\">In over 50 years observing the British monarchy, I have never seen such hostility \u2013 even loathing \u2013 of the royal family as I\u2019ve witnessed over the past few weeks. You can just feel the vibe. The shaming and banishment from public life of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor \u2013 formerly Prince Andrew \u2013 has been unanimously cheered.<\/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)\">BBC audiences burst into enthusiastic applause at news of his downfall, and callers to broadcast phone-ins have been vicious about him and, by association, the royals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former prince and his wife have tarnished how the institution is viewed by many \u2013 and given&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[192,109,36,2204,518,177801,2205,8821,5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-556724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-david-beckham","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-jeffrey-epstein","12":"tag-king-charles-iii","13":"tag-mary-kenny","14":"tag-prince-andrew","15":"tag-queen-elizabeth","16":"tag-royal","17":"tag-royal-families","18":"tag-royal-family","19":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115512733433294299","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}