Norman Baker said relatives including Sam Chatto are able to live largely unburdened by financial worries thanks to an accumulation of 'gifts' by the wife of King George VI.
He might be a present husband and father, but when it comes to carrying out royal duties, the Prince of Wales is 'workshy', a royal expert has claimed.
So, Andrew has been exiled to the far reaches of the solar system, or as near as King Charles could manage - the depths of the Sandringham estate in Norfolk.
Heaped in ignominy, banned from using those treasured royal titles, his world of murky secrets unravelling faster than a ball of string, there can be precious little comfort for Prince Andrew.
Now that Prince Andrew's scandalous secrets are exposed, writes NORMAN BAKER, the public have every right to know if such a senior royal has engaged in any law-breaking.
Last week, Donald Trump deployed National Guard soldiers to Washington DC, to enact his promise of 'historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse'.