In the latest edition of the death by a thousand cuts, Prince Andrew has been relieved of a few gongs and will no longer use his Duke of York title.

Note that unlike Virginia Giuffre, it hasn’t been stripped, flung around like a rag doll, and binned.

It feels like we are being marched up to the top of the hill and then back down again.

I cannot imagine many people shelling out £12m for nothing. Particularly someone who appears to short of a few million and is desperately clinging to the lease on the Royal Todge Lodge.

I’m not even sure that whipping his dukedom away is too much of a blow, given that the most senior title, Prince, is still retained.

Scum news outlets have been banging on about that title being an absolute birthright as the son of the then-reigning monarch.

Gaslighting, sycophantic shite.

It’s a royal prerogative, and the reigning monarch can withdraw it at their discretion by putting in place new Letters of Patent.

Very different are earldoms and dukedoms, which are legal creations under the Peerage Acts and require an Act of Parliament to remove.

So, heres what’s gone down, apart from of course the overblown turd himself.

He’s relinquished the legal title, thus sparing the Royal Family from the onerous and embarrassing route of forcible removal. The one that can be snatched on the word of the King remains.

That’s more shocking than the jollies to Nonce Island. It’s almost as if a deal has been done.

Perhaps, beneath the pomp and splendour, we’re seeing who the establishment really is.