A Fallen Prince

Plain old Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, formerly known as Prince, has disgraced the British monarchy and shamed our nation with his alleged impropriety and association with lewd plutocrats. His Majesty the King has quite rightly stripped his troublesome brother of his titles and honours; it is my hope that this intervention will protect the ancient institution which I hold dear. As well as feeding republicanism across the country, Andrew’s poor conduct offers little wholesome distraction from what already feels like an unsavoury period of our national existence. One wonders why so privileged a lifestyle and the excellent role model provided by his great mother could not have inspired him to a greater degree of moderation, if not morality. There will be some bleak comfort for the former Duke that he is still one point higher up the opinion polls than the Prime Minister, who heads his brother’s government.

York's former duke reminds me of Satan. This is not to say that Andrew is utterly evil, for he is not. Nor does it suppose true the Mormon lie that he and Jesus Christ were brothers. Satan, however, in his pre-fallen identity as Lucifer, appears to have been an exalted angelic prince: a beautiful, celebrated and powerful personage whom his peers held in the highest regard. But that was not enough. A subservient role to Christ was no longer palatable, and he rebelled against God’s greater government, seeking his own satisfaction and pleasure instead of his Greater’s. Andrew’s fall and questionable conduct may be explained by psychologists, socialists, historians and conspiracy theorists, but the fall of Lucifer appears a greater mystery, the solving of which has not been granted us. Suffice to say that the horrible legacy of heaven’s fallen prince was reversed and remedied by the voluntary stooping of heaven’s greater King:

Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Phil. 2