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The time has long, long since passed that the Buckingham Palace works department – or Prince Philip back in the day armed with a screwdriver – should have installed an alarm bell. A bell which could have been used, say, when Prince Andrew brought around his chums Ghislaine Maxwell and Kevin Spacey to let them sit on the actual, real thrones. Or for when Andrew boarded a flight to New York to holiday with a bloke called Jeffrey. Or for when Andrew would “shout and scream” at maids if they didn’t perfectly place his “50 or 60” stuffed toys on his bed.

Now we have the Daily Mail’s Richard Eden reporting that, if the palace had had one of these particular bells, maybe one with some sort of flashing red light that emitted a really ear-piercing woop woop, it would have been going off in 2018 after the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

A royal source has told Eden: “Meghan’s public disagreements with her father set alarm bells ringing at the time. Her Majesty realised the potential damage they could do to the Royal Family in general. Looking back, the Queen might have had an inkling of what was to come”.