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It’s not often that the creme de la creme of the literary world intersect with all things royal; after all, the house of Windsor is a famously and proudly anti-intellectual bunch.

(Prince Charles was the first senior member of the royal family to ever go to university and he somehow managed to get into ultra-prestigious Cambridge University despite only having gotten a B in History and a C in French in his final exams.)?

The royal family had two more generations in it, that is, Charles and William would make it to the throne before the gilded edifice collapsed.

It’s very hard to understand the thinking behind the monarchy in the modern world when people are just seen as celebrities,” Mantel said.

At fault: Three princes whose behaviour and choices have set off a series of crises the likes of which the royal family has never seen before.

When news of the lawsuit, filed by Virginia Giuffre (formerly Roberts) broke in August, it was the first time in history a member of the royal house had stood publicly accused of such a reprehensible act.

The next prince currently waist deep in a sleazy scandal involves future king Prince Charles.

That the next Defender of the Faith was running an outfit so possibly slimy should be cause for more than a spot of royal soul searching, however, instead Clarence House put out a statement which was drier than a desiccated Sao, denying that the Prince had any “knowledge” of what had allegedly been going on.

Enter stage left the carping Prince Harry and his laundry list of gripes which he and wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex have been fronting the press with.

At some stage next year, Harry’s autobiography will hit shelves making him the first senior member of the royal house to pen a tell-all since Sarah, the Duchess of York published the imaginatively named My Story in 1997.

What unites the Andrew, Charles and Harry imbroglios if that have, and will continue to, erode the trust in, and respect for, the monarchy.

The issue with these various crises is that the more the royal family is in the headlines for the wrong reasons, the more it forces the great unwashed to think about the very fact they are still ruled over by an unelected head of state, and that is a precarious place to be?

A royal expert has weighed in on Prince William’s surprisingly brief birthday message to little brother Prince Harry as he turned 37 this week