Meanwhile, on the Queen's Balmoral estate, Prince Andrew is paying a visit that was not preannounced

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13. It has been quietly speculated that the royal family has a private system of dealing

with wayward members, even in modern times.

From Prince Albert Eddy, grandson of Victoria and rumored to be a Ripper suspect, who died mysteriously while under the care of the Queen's personal physician, his symptoms being remarkably like those of poisoning.

to the Duke of Kent, the very handsome, cocaine sniffing, bisexual brother of King George VI who died in a plane crash,

to Prince Philip's uncle the Earl of Mountbatten (blown up while on a small fishing boat in Ireland one quiet Sunday) who had infuriated the members of the House of Windsor when he was overhead crowing that after Elizabeth, the Mountbatten family would be sitting on the throne of England,

to the poor Diana who died a violent death under such troubling circumstances.

It makes sense that those in the world who still hold crowns do so in part because they are ruthless.

I'd watch my back if I were Randy Andy.