The British monarchy has survived wars, revolutions and constitutional crises across a millennium. It may not survive one man: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.<\/p>\n
I have covered the Royal Family<\/a> for 35 years. Diana’s death. The annus horribilis. Harry and Meghan’s exodus. None of it compares to this.<\/p>\n The Epstein connection isn’t fading. It is metastasizing.<\/p>\n King Charles<\/a> is a good man. Anyone who knows him will tell you that. When he finally became King after waiting seven decades, he wanted real change. He meant it. But good intentions die fast inside palace walls.<\/p>\n He is also fighting cancer<\/a> \u2014 a battle he has conducted with remarkable personal courage, and uncharacteristic transparency. He needs to draw on that strength now for a different fight entirely.<\/p>\n I know something about how he thinks. Once, flying back from India<\/a>, I passed him \u2014 via his press secretary Julian Payne \u2014 an early copy of an op-ed I had drafted for London<\/a>\u2019s evening newspaper, The Standard.<\/p>\n He read it on the plane and later showed it to me, covered in notes and markings. Where I had written about \u2018royal power,\u2019 he had scratched it out. Across the page, the word he substituted was leadership.<\/p>\n This is the moment for it.<\/p>\n King Charles is a good man. Anyone who knows him will tell you that. When he finally became King after waiting seven decades, he wanted real change. He meant it. But good intentions die fast inside palace walls<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Epstein connection isn’t fading. It is metastasising<\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2026\/02\/18\/16\/106046611-15567923-The_Epstein_connection_isn_t_fading_It_is_metastasising-a-1_1771433662393.jpg\")
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