Once seen, never to be forgotten, it has proved to be one of the most compelling snaps of 2026.
But the image of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on his 66th birthday in February – his face incredulous, affronted, bleached by flashlight while being driven away from Aylsham police station after 11 hours in custody – may soon be superseded by one of near contentment.
For I can disclose that the grandees of north Norfolk have concluded that the former Duke of York should not be shunned for ever like some leper in the pre-Christian world.
‘The view is that things have gone too far,’ observes
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