David Dimbleby

BBC broadcaster David Dimbleby has spent five decades covering everything from Princess Diana's funeral in 1997...

to Queen Elizabeth's in 2022.

That access has brought insight, he says, into what he calls a secretive, self-protective institution resistant to reform.

It's possible legislation to remove Andrew from the line of royal succession could also end up including new requirements for financial transparency on the part of working royals.

For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London.