Sex, Lies, and Videotape
by Zoe Strimpel
Tue, 30 Oct 2007 at 3:25 PM
updated Tue, 30 Oct 2007 at 3:30 PM
The chairman of Christie's UK, Lord Linley (David Albert Charles Armstrong-Jones), who is 12th in line of succession to the throne, has been named in Australia and America as the disgraced victim of the British royal blackmail plot. But in England, where the public loves nothing more than a scandal, legal reasons have kept his identity under wraps.
Not for long, perhaps. The Daily Telegraph said Tuesday that he could be named within hours — after all, Fox News, the American channel on which the journalist Nicholas Davies dropped his name, is available here on satellite TV. The paper said it is likely "the royal," as he is still being called here, will waive his right to anonymity soon. And the (London) Sun — the all-knowing, much-loved tabloid — quoted a "senior Palace source" as saying that the option of going public was becoming "increasingly tempting."
One source at the Times says: "It's bound to come out any moment ... someone will be talking about it on TV and out the name will pop."
Lord Linley or not, this story is giving everyone — but the Palace — just what they love most: sex, lies, and videotape.
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