A notion has started to take shape in my mind since last Thursday’s arrest of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor at the King’s Sandringham Estate and I can’t shake it off.

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It no longer feels like a wild proposition to suggest that King Charles III might abdicate in order to save the Crown. We’re not there yet but hear me out.

The late Queen Elizabeth was determined that, barring incapacity, she would be Monarch until she took her last breath. And so it was on that September day in Balmoral in 2022 after 70 years and 214 days. She had become Queen because of the abdication of her Uncle King Edward VIII making her father George VI.

That seismic event shook the House of Windsor to its core. For Elizabeth her accession to the throne was the moment around which the rest of her life orbited. King Charles was raised in that too.

Even as a much older man when it fell to him you get the sense he was just as committed when the crown was placed on........

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