Let’s look at Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who after his arrest last week has been subject to a sudden relaxing of public inhibitions around describing the man as he actually is. Perhaps you saw the video from 2022, now widely circulating, in which Mountbatten-Windsor’s former protection officer told an Australian news channel that the nickname they had for their royal boss was “the cunt”. With slightly more civility, Labour MP Chris Bryant on Tuesday called Mountbatten-Windsor “rude, arrogant and entitled”, observations that may prove useful in explaining just how Epstein excited such loyalty from the eighth in line to the throne. In Mountbatten-Windsor we see a vain, weak, entitled man living in the shadow of his brother, and whom Epstein may have lured into friendship through a combination of flattery and the performance of power.