Mumbai: The fallout from the paper trail unearthed from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal currently sweeping the world of big business, politics, entertainment and more has impacted the British royal family with the arrest (and subsequent release) of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formally Prince Andrew, who had been stripped of his royal title last October; this despite him continuing to deny all charges.

It has also led to the ignominious exit of Peter Mandelson, who was Britain’s ambassador to the US, due to his alleged ties to Epstein, the late financier and convicted paedophile who died by apparent suicide in his prison cell in New York in 2019. This brings to mind two scandals in Britain, one of which nearly brought down the monarchy and another which actually brought down the Conservative government of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1963. In 1936, King Edward VIII abdicated the throne to marry the twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson and was replaced by his brother George VI.

If anything, the scandal that brought down the........

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