Awful to see so many enjoying the Royal Family’s humiliation - Sarah Todd

There has been a sanctimonious clamour from our Prime Minister and many of his Labour colleagues. It’s impossible not to imagine them rubbing their hands in glee at this two-pronged opportunity to tarnish the wider monarchy - as a younger man Sir Keir Starmer called for its abolition - while taking the heat off their own poor policy and personnel decisions.

Oh the irony that on the day Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor was arrested the 50th person to be convicted as part of the investigation into the Rotherham grooming scandal - a story broken by my late former colleague Andrew Norfolk - was jailed for 20 years.

Sheffield Crown Court heard Hussain drove a then 13-year-old to an abandoned industrial estate and raped her. He also abused the girl a second time after driving to a field and raping her inside his car.

This poor girl, now in her 30s, was living in the care system and had already been sexually exploited by many other men when Hussain targeted her.

She spoke out in court, addressing her attacker directly, saying: "When you met me, I was just a fragile, vulnerable little girl who you could easily abuse. Today, I am a woman with a voice, and my only goal is to seek justice. It was over 20 years ago when you started to rape me. 11 years ago I started my fight for justice, today I got that."

Our country should hang its head in shame that this young lady, who was supposed to be being looked after by social services, was wandering around alone. The ‘care’ system didn’t seem to care at all.

It is beyond revolting that we seem to be more bothered about the late American financier Jeffrey Epstein’s antics. That is not to dismiss the obvious suffering of the young women that fell victim to him, but there is something so very wrong about a society that obsesses more about one scandal than another because it was acted out on a backdrop of yachts and luxury holiday islands, rather than wastelands of a South Yorkshire town.

Furthermore, have we learnt nothing from sad stories like former Love Island presenter Caroline Flack? Just the other week it was six years since she took her own life after an onslaught of abuse on social media while she was awaiting trial for an alleged assault.

Afterwards, other celebrities and politicians were falling over themselves to support the social media movement known as #BeKind in her honour. There was even a petition for ‘Caroline’s Law’ launched, gaining over 500,000 signatures, to urge the government to criminalise bullying in the media.

Not a Love Island viewer, this correspondent knows nothing really about the late Ms Flack. So an online search was made, in which she is described as ‘an effervescent, fun-loving, and charismatic television presenter, whose public persona was marked by a signature, infectious laugh and a warm, engaging presence.’

Of course, there are new people coming out of the woodwork every day to drag Mr Mountbatten-Windsor’s name through the mud. But who is to say that he isn’t also, behind the scenes like Ms Flack, ‘deeply vulnerable’?

To finish, tucked away on an inside page of last weekend’s Sunday Times was the most marvellous interview with Ahmed al-Ahmed, the hero who was shot after disarming a gunman during last year’s killings on Bondi beach, where Jewish families were innocently celebrating Chanukkah, the festival of light.

What a wonderful, wonderful man. Able to speak with humour about his young daughter saying ‘Dad, why didn’t you go and take the gun off the other guy on the bridge?’ and not moaning or calling for compensation about the fact he may never be able to move his arm again after being shot five times.

While in hospital, by order of King Charles (Australia’s head of state), he was - without fanfare or fuss - brought a bunch of the country’s native purple flowers.

If we care not a jot for his brother, let us look after our monarch.

Quietly, often wearing his late father’s old overcoat to keep the chill from the body that is still fighting cancer, he carries on caring