The Royal Family is, essentially, corrupt.
As The Guardian showed, The Queen is not above 'leaning' on governments to get bills altered so that they fundamentally favour their tax-free lifestyle. I find it very strange that such diligent research has been glossed over by every other news publication out there.
The Establishment in this country gets away with a great deal. They all prop each other up because they know, like a house of cards, if one goes, they rest are likely to follow in short order.
Royalists often point to The Queen as some sort of paragon of virtue. I admit she has been a reasonable Head of State, but not blameless. The next one, Charles, interferes politically which is supposed to be a 'no no'. It's all well and good saying The Queen is holding on for William to take the throne, but Charles has been waiting for it for a very long time and he's not going to relinquish it. Unfortunately, monarchy means you don't get to choose your Head of State, and you're stuck with whomever is next in line to the throne.
Royalists often say things like "well, if we had a President we could end up with someone like Blair". Yes, we could, but we could also get rid of him. We have literally no mechanism (well, I can think of one - the French are familiar with it) to remove a bad Head of State with our current system.
With regard to Andrew, it's quite clear Mummy is protecting him - I think we can all agree on that - and it's also quite clear that Mummy (and, thus, the taxpayer) is footing the extremely large legal bill involved - because you can bet your last dollar those lawyers don't come cheap. His ex-wife is a waster, in every sense of the word and I'm not surprised she thinks he's an honourable man - I'm sure, by her standards, he is.
Until we can 'grow up' in this country and consign this miserable lot of misbegotten wasters to the history books where they belong, and have a proper, elected Head of State, I fear this sort of charade is going to continue. Remember - you're footing the bill for this.