Rex v. Mountbatten-Windsor

The King Versus His Brother — In Name, In Law, and In History

I want to draw your attention to something that has received rather less coverage than it deserves, tucked beneath the louder headlines about arrests and birthday timing and police searches of royal estates. It is a detail that is, on its face, a dry matter of legal procedure. It is also, when you sit with it for a moment, one of the most remarkable sen…