{"id":2302127,"date":"2026-02-26T23:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T23:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2302127"},"modified":"2026-02-26T23:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T23:59:09","slug":"scrutiny-of-andrew-puts-pressure-on-british-royals-to-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/scrutiny-of-andrew-puts-pressure-on-british-royals-to-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrutiny of Andrew puts pressure on British royals to change"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When Trade Minister Chris Bryant stood in the United Kingdom\u2019s House of Commons on Tuesday, he said something that the British people aren\u2019t used to hearing in Parliament.<\/p>\n

Mr. Bryant called the man formerly known as Prince Andrew \u201crude, arrogant, and entitled\u201d \u2013 a critique that\u2019s normally forbidden under parliamentary rules, but had been waived for the day\u2019s session.<\/p>\n

It was a historic occasion in a country where government criticism of the royal family is still subject to regulation. But as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, as the former prince is now known, is being investigated for possible misconduct in public office, it is the kind of criticism that is more broadly broached now, both in government and in public.<\/p>\n

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Why We Wrote This<\/h2>\n

The misconduct investigation into the former Prince Andrew is putting the British monarchy under a harsh glare \u2013 and giving new energy to chronic questions about whether it should still exist. But the institution\u2019s evolution is already underway.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

And for the British royal family, it suggests the sort of erosion that could threaten the monarchy itself. The crumbling of traditional formalities in Parliament, for example, could lead many to question why such provisions were ever put in place at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve got that group of people maybe just taking a bit more interest [in the royal family] and wondering: \u2018Should we be really allowing people to think they\u2019re so elite?\u2019\u201d says Pauline Maclaran, a professor of marketing and consumer research who has studied the royal family extensively at Royal Holloway, University of London.<\/p>\n

Yet the royal family could still use this episode as an opportunity to remold the monarchy for the 21st century. King Charles III and other royal family members have attempted to distance themselves from Mr. Mountbatten-Windsor and his connections with the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. (Mr. Mountbatten-Windsor is not under investigation for sexual offenses.) They might opt to go further and take lessons from other European crown families \u2013 slimming the institution down in order to protect against its complete dissolution.<\/p>\n