The Guardian view on the Mountbatten-Windsor papers: they expose the collapse of Britain’s 'good chap' state | Editorial
📰 The Guardian · 📅 May 21, 2026, 05:29 PM · 🌐 theguardian.com
New papers matter less for royal gossip than for what they reveal about the UK’s fragile constitutional culture of trust, prestige and informal powerThe most shocking revelation in files released on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s appointment as Britain’s trade envoy isn’t that he loves golf or prefers