Putting Princess Margaret on one side for the moment and she is perhaps unfortunate to have been drawn into this period of royal misfortune this would be a crushing blow for both Andrew and his sister Anne. For both have shown unbelievably bad timing to display the less attractive side of their characters to the world. Anne tersely murmured, when Iris Halfpenny gave her a flower basket outside the Sandringham church on Christmas Day, that it was 'a ridiculous thing to do'. She is expected to take on considerably more official duties in the coining years to help out her mother, now 74, and more importantly her father, who will be 80 in June. As for Andrew, flabby at he leaves the Navy after 21 years in April and faces a future which would be completely blank but for his roistering without an official job being found for him. One has been, of course he is taking over from the Duke of Kent as vice-chairman of British Trade International, a hugely important roving ambassadorial role drumming up trade for Britain. As one senior Palace courtier complains: 'He hasn't looked much like an ambassador this week, has he?' Andrew has taken over, again from his cousin the Duke of Kent, as president of the Football Association and is anticipating a much wider role as a front-rank royal, carrying out important public engagements. This week Andrew has been pictured cavorting with topless beauties on a rich man's boat anchored off Phuket, in Thailand. If the shots of him having cream smeared into his sun- scorched body by a topless friend had been of his ex-wife Fergie, they would have raised an outcry from Buckingham Palace. They follow pictures of him looking rather dishevelled at a Halloween 'hookers and pimps' fancy dress party in New York, and emerging in the early hours from London nightclubs. Obviously, there is no reason why a man ofl who is no longer married, should not enjoy himself in the company of pretty girls. But Andrew has been making too much of