It would be cheek and impudence on my part to instruct the head of the Church of England about the True Meaning of Christmas but when has that ever stopped a journalist? I have in mind the news all over the papers that the Duke of York is being “urged to stay out of sight for Christmas”. That is, the carefully planted stories are saying, he should do the decent thing and miss the Buckingham Palace Christmas lunch for 50 on Thursday and stay away from the Sandringham Church Christmas Day service. Poor Prince Andrew; demoted to, as The Sun puts it, “The Banned Old Duke of York”.
