How long will we stomach sermons from royals made rich by their own charities? | Catherine Bennett

The British public remains immensely forgiving of royal failings, understandably when the family is fragile and struggling with serious illness.

But new revelations about King Charles and his heir’s enormous untaxed wealth suggest that the palace might not want to get too confident about the current non-judgmental state of affairs.

Dispatches, the Sunday Times and the Mirror have disclosed what the royal family had until last week successfully concealed.

Justified suspicion about the core family’s openness, probity and claims to spiritual authority could be more threatening to its stability than Prince Andrew .

But a country that can tolerate sermons from the current archbishop of Canterbury is perhaps in no position to be picky about moral direction from his colleague, the king.