Fashion Week Front Row Seat to a Handcuffed Prince

Talk about a royal catwalk catastrophe. King Charles was just trying to enjoy some British Fashion Week when the real drama unfolded off the runway. Forget the hemlines, the only thing dropping was a prince into police custody.

This wasn’t a scheduled appearance. Andrew’s legal woes finally caught up with him in the most public way imaginable, turning a fluffy fashion event into a constitutional crisis. The King’s reserved seat suddenly looked very, very empty. The monarchy’s carefully curated image? Shattered like a teacup at a palace wall.

The Firm is in full damage control mode, but how do you spin this? The spare heir, arrested while the King watches chiffon? The symbolism is almost too brutal to be real. The crown hasn’t faced a blow like this in decades.

Buckingham Palace walls are sweating. What happens to the family business now?

Photo: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Paredes / CC BY 4.0