Rob Watson

But someone who has done something very, very different and running expressly against the grain of

of what the royal family is for.

So I think that the challenge for the royal family is unlike any that it has faced before.

And we will wait and see over the next few weeks and months about how it rides the storm.

I think there will be questions amongst historians and analysts and royal commentators about...

the strength of a mother's love for what was widely acknowledged to be a favourite son.

And there will no doubt be questions about the sort of infrastructure of the relationship between Prince Andrew and the palace.

And that is effectively facilitated by the royal family, which is personified by the monarch, which was the queen, no doubt about it.

I don't think there'll be that many people who will spend that much time squabbling over the legacy of the woman who spent six decades as queen...

But there will be questions over every aspect of the palace and the family's relationship with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

And that is the challenge for the family and the crown.

I think it is a sort of where were you when moment.

It's a sort of Kennedy getting assassinated or the space shuttle blowing up.

It's a really big moment.

Let's not pretend that the whole of the British public are in thrall to the monarchy and are down on one knee or are shushing people as the Christmas message comes out.

That's not the case.

But it is a part of the national fabric and it is an elevated part.

It is almost an untouchable part.

and it has been touched, and that makes it different, very different.

In recent days, there's been a lot of back and forth about the way the files and the redactions were handled.