Royal accountability meets public patience: The Andrew problem won’t disappear

King Charles getting heckled over Prince Andrew during public appearances has become almost routine. Dedham follows similar incidents at Lichfield Cathedral in October 2025. The persistence of these confrontations reveals something GB News commentators miss: this isn’t just angry protesters seizing opportunities. It’s the predictable consequence of institutional stonewalling.

When powerful families use procedure and silence as crisis management tools—never directly addressing allegations, relying on “the matter is closed” statements while maintaining the subject’s privileges, public frustration doesn’t evaporate. It accumulates.

The real question isn’t whether Charles “expected it to happen.” It’s why, after years of these confrontations, there’s still no substantive response beyond palace PR strategies. The Epstein-Andrew connection isn’t going away because it was never properly addressed—just procedurally managed and publicly ignored.

Institutions that treat accountability as a PR problem rather than a moral obligation eventually discover that displacing responsibility only delays reckoning. The hecklers keep showing up because the answers never do.

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