Rob Watson

And two of them are duty and service.

And they are the foundation stones of the modern monarchy in Britain and, frankly, of the House of Windsor as well, the house that has held the crown for the last hundred or so years in that name.

Now...

What is suggested by the arrest and the investigation, and it is important to remind everybody that former Prince Andrew strenuously denies any financial gain or any sexual impropriety, but what is suggested is...

is that a very senior member of the royal family has done the opposite of duty and service.

And not someone who is caught drunk outside a nightclub throwing up or someone who ends up sleeping with somebody else's wife.

All of this, you know, goes down the decades for the royal family and people understand they have teenage lives and they have difficult family lives like many do.

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.