Sunset for Bob and the Queen: A tale of two arrests

Celebs & EntertainmentCrime & CourtNewsWorldBy Nigel PfundeIn history it is said the mighty fall, often tripping over the very velvet carpets their parents laid out for them.We witnessed this yesterday when the scales of justice decided to balance two ledgers at once proving that while privilege may be inherited, immunity is NOT!Yesterday, Prince Andrew, the Duke of York found himself in a position quite unfamiliar to a man who had spent a lifetime being “Your Royal Highness.” to the The Thames Valley Police Station arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.It was a “Royal Mess” of the highest order.Meanwhile, thousands of miles away in South Africa, Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, the youngest son of late former president and strongman Robert Mugabe was facing his own reckoning.He was arrested in connection with a shooting at his multi million dollar residence in Hyde Park.Bellarmine means “beautiful armor’ and found that his father’s legacy provided no protection against the cold steel of a set of handcuffs when the Saps cops pounced on him.The irony was as thick as the London fog and as sharp as the Zimbabwean sun.Watching from above: the late Queen Elizabeth and former president Robert Mugabe.Decades earlier, their parents had shared more than just the burden of power; they had shared a table.In 1994, Robert Mugabe had been appointed an honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath by Queen Elizabeth II. At the time, it was a gesture of diplomatic “knightly” affection, a “Bath” meant to cleanse the stains of a revolutionary past and welcome a new statesman into the fold.But as the years turned, the “Knight” became a nightmare, and the Queen eventually had to “strip” him of his title in 2008 in a rare royal “un-knighting” that signaled the end of their friendship.Mugabe’s “bath” had run cold and the water was murky indeed.Now, their sons the Prince and the President’s progeny were united in a different kind of “order.”One was a “Son of the Soil” and the other a “Son of the Crown,” yet both were now merely “Subjects of the State.”This writer cannot ignore wordplay of their fates.Andrew, once a “shooting star” of the Royal Navy and a regular at elite “shooting parties,” was now being “shot down” by the very laws he was born to represent. Bellarmine, whose father once ruled with an iron fist, was now being held for a literal “shooting”It is a curious juxtaposition that the Duke who lost his “York” and the Son who lost his “Zimbabwean” sanctuary.One was born in a palace, the other in the shadow of a presidency that felt like one.Both spent their youth in the “shade” of their parents’ power only to find that when the sun sets on a dynasty, the shadows are the first things to disappear.In 1994, the Queen gave Mugabe a “cross” to wear in honor.Yesterday in 2026, his son and her son both found themselves at “crossroads” where no title could guide them.The “Order of the Bath” has been replaced by the “Order of the Jail Cell” and the only “knighthood” left for these two is the long, dark “night” of a prison cell.It seems that in the end, whether you are a Windsor or a Mugabe, the law is the only “sovereign” that truly remains seated.The law is indeed an ass!Leave a ReplyCancel reply Celebs & EntertainmentCrime & CourtNewsWorldBy Nigel PfundeIn history it is said the mighty fall, often tripping over the very velvet carpets their parents laid out for them.We witnessed this yesterday when the scales of justice decided to balance two ledgers at once proving that while privilege may be inherited, immunity is NOT!Yesterday, Prince Andrew, the Duke of York found himself in a position quite unfamiliar to a man who had spent a lifetime being “Your Royal Highness.” to the The Thames Valley Police Station arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.It was a “Royal Mess” of the highest order.Meanwhile, thousands of miles away in South Africa, Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, the youngest son of late former president and strongman Robert Mugabe was facing his own reckoning.He was arrested in connection with a shooting at his multi million dollar residence in Hyde Park.Bellarmine means “beautiful armor’ and found that his father’s legacy provided no protection against the cold steel of a set of handcuffs when the Saps cops pounced on him.The irony was as thick as the London fog and as sharp as the Zimbabwean sun.Watching from above: the late Queen Elizabeth and former president Robert Mugabe.Decades earlier, their parents had shared more than just the burden of power; they had shared a table.In 1994, Robert Mugabe had been appointed an honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath by Queen Elizabeth II.

Bellarmine, whose father once ruled with an iron fist, was now being held for a literal “shooting”It is a curious juxtaposition that the Duke who lost his “York” and the Son who lost his “Zimbabwean” sanctuary.One was born in a palace, the other in the shadow of a presidency that felt like one.Both spent their youth in the “shade” of their parents’ power only to find that when the sun sets on a dynasty, the shadows are the first things to disappear.In 1994, the Queen gave Mugabe a “cross” to wear in honor.Yesterday in 2026, his son and her son both found themselves at “crossroads” where no title could guide them.The “Order of the Bath” has been replaced by the “Order of the Jail Cell” and the only “knighthood” left for these two is the long, dark “night” of a prison cell.It seems that in the end, whether you are a Windsor or a Mugabe, the law is the only “sovereign” that truly remains seated.The law is indeed an ass! In history it is said the mighty fall, often tripping over the very velvet carpets their parents laid out for them. We witnessed this yesterday when the scales of justice decided to balance two ledgers at once proving that while privilege may be inherited, immunity is NOT!

Yesterday, Prince Andrew, the Duke of York found himself in a position quite unfamiliar to a man who had spent a lifetime being “Your Royal Highness.” to the The Thames Valley Police Station arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.It was a “Royal Mess” of the highest order. Meanwhile, thousands of miles away in South Africa, Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, the youngest son of late former president and strongman Robert Mugabe was facing his own reckoning. He was arrested in connection with a shooting at his multi million dollar residence in Hyde Park.Bellarmine means “beautiful armor’ and found that his father’s legacy provided no protection against the cold steel of a set of handcuffs when the Saps cops pounced on him.

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The irony was as thick as the London fog and as sharp as the Zimbabwean sun. Decades earlier, their parents had shared more than just the burden of power; they had shared a table.

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