The third photo that buries the prince Andreu

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor made headlines for the third time in his civil life this Friday. His photograph inside a police car, after visiting Aylsham police station, was a poem: to avoid the flashes of photographers, he hunched down in the seat, but a front camera caught him hunched over, like a rabbit paralyzed with fear in front of the headlights of a jeep, all neck due to the forced posture. The Daily Mail headlined "The Fall" and wrote that he looked "defeated, ashamed and scared." The cruelest headline was that of the Sun: "Now he sweats." It referred to a famous television interview in which he stated that he did not perspire due to a medical problem. Other media recall that he is the first high-ranking royal to be arrested in 350 years. And the Scottish The National took the opportunity to display its anti-monarchism, with a photograph of Andrew next to his brother, King Charles III, flanking Queen Elizabeth and the headline "What did they know?". The more institutionalist press, on the other hand, tends to highlight the monarch's statement that the law must take its course. But they admit that it is the strongest blow to the crown's image in recent times. I suppose it can also be called democratic normality.

We must await the police investigations, but the image is one of those that automatically condemn in the collective imagination and speaks to us of the importance of images. And we are talking about a man who already had in his possession a disturbing image of him affectionately holding a seventeen-year-old girl by the waist at the London home of Ghislaine Maxwell, who was the partner and accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein. And also another even more worrying photograph, obtained from the archives of the child abuser, in which he is seen on all fours, leaning over an unidentified woman.