"I'll be accused...of defending "Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor", as we must now call him, in French-Revolutionary style, as I think Marie Antoinette ended up being called "The Widow Capet" in the same fashion."
— Peter Hitchens

January 1, 1970

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Interview on Times Radio (1 November 2025). Same idea echoed by Mary Kenny, "Has Andrew brought the British royal family to its Marie-Antoinette moment?", Irish Independent (8 November 2025)