Andrew selling his wedding present from the Queen tells you everything about him ...Middle East

The Royal Family is often described as a “modern morality tale”, with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor still one of the main characters, despite shedding his titles.

But really the story is about accountability, because the former prince’s story tells us so much about why appalling behaviour continues and often worsens.

The events of the past few months, in which Andrew was stripped of his titles, kicked out of Royal Lodge in Windsor and is now mooted for an exile overseas, might lead someone unfamiliar with the whole story to conclude that only recently have we known about his friendship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

The reaction to the most recent revelations has been strangely disproportionate to the level of extra detail they furnish us with: his infamous 2019 Newsnight interview was, after all, so long ago that there are now not only documentaries and films about it but also comedy skits about the documentaries.

But even then, the interview was responding to what we already knew about Andrew, not providing bombshell new revelations. The bombshell was really the way Andrew behaved in the interview, not what he said.

Now, we learn that Andrew sold his wedding present from his mother – the 12-bedroom redbrick mansion at Sunninghill Park – to an oligarch who used money from a company implicated in a bribery scheme. The lawyers for Timur Kulibayev insist that the funds used to acquire the property from the former duke of York were entirely legitimate. But the sale itself tells us more about the kind of man Andrew is – selling his mother’s wedding present with no consequences.

His mother seemed to indulge his behaviour or at least remain in denial that it was happening at all. But there was also a lack of accountability in public life more widely.

It was only in 2025 that Andrew faced any punishment. For years he has been able to vault over it, or skirt around it, and that has emboldened him.

This is reflective of our wider approach to scandals. We often know for some time that people are being treated appallingly by others or by an institution but we fail to muster the energy to do anything about it. Until, that is, one relatively small new piece of information leads us to decree that we have uncovered a huge new scandal which must be responded to immediately.

The reaction then switches instantly from widespread indifference to attempts to compensate for the lag in recognising serious wrongs. The ITV show about the Post Office was very good but it only dramatised what had long been known about the Horizon IT scandal, yet the reaction involved a rush to compensate for previous indifference.

Similarly, Elon Musk had not discovered anything new when, a year ago, he started posting on X about grooming gangs, but the British political class sprang up like a startled cat to react to something it had long known about.

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Andrew might finally be facing some form of accountability, but the frenzy surrounding it is as much about our own sense of guilt in not responding sooner as it is about what precisely he did and when.

We already knew the kind of man he was, we just didn’t act.

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