In Scotland King Charles and his siblings, including Prince Andrew walk behind the Queen’s coffin. A heckler is heard addressing Andrew: “You’re a sick old man.” and is promptly drowned out by a crowd chanting “God Save The King”. If that isn’t a perfect almost poetic example of the immunity Royals have always enjoyed, then I’m not sure what is. For the public to so easily excuse and even protect a rapist because he happens to be a royal shows exactly how deeply entrenched rape culture is in our society. Regardless of who he is and what family Andrew was born into, he still remains a rapist. My heart and thoughts are with his victims and all victims of sexual assault who have been made to feel less important, who’s trauma has been minimized and pushed aside, been treated as an inconvenience in favour of protecting and upholding the perpetrators of sexual assault. You deserve to be seen and I’m sorry that your truth and pain was drowned out by a society that would rather uphold stu...