The King's Failure To Answer This Heckler’s Question is William's Problem

The King is still protecting his brother from a proper police investigation. William fears it is another mess for him to clear up.

A heckler’s question, shouted across a cordon of protection officers in a rainy Essex village this afternoon, was neither abusive nor incoherent.

In fact, it was what everyone is thinking.

“Charles, Charles! Should the police be investigating Andrew?” the man said, before he was led away by the police.

The King, of course, did not answer. He walked on, smiling bravely, shaking hands, the routine business of monarchy grinding on.

Yet few at the palace are likely to be unaware that Andrew was stripped of his titles (and home) days after the last time Charles was so publicly heckled on the matter, outside Lichfield Cathedral, in October.

So what does Charles think?

Well, my sources say that Charles absolutely does not want his brother to face a police investigation.