Prince Andrew Is a Vibe Problem and the Cathedral Has Had Enough

Morag
Sinclair
on
St
Andrews
Cathedral,
Rebranding,
and
the
Ongoing
Andrew
Situation

Diary
of
Morag
Sinclair,
Comedy
Writer,

Prat.uk
|
Island
observations
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Bohiney
Magazine

Tuesday
on
the
Isle
of
Man:
Saints,
Scandals,
and
Structural
Rebranding

I
read
this
morning
that

St
Andrews
Cathedral
has
been
renamed
following
a
branding
review,
with
Prince
Andrew
blamed
for
ongoing
vibe
complications.
This
is
the
most
Scottish
sentence
I
have
ever
read,
and
I
grew
up
in
North
London,
which
tells
you
how
Scottish
it
is.

Let
us
be
precise:
a
cathedral

a
medieval
stone
structure
that
has
survived
the
Reformation,
several
wars,
and
the
Scottish
weather

has
been
forced
into
a
rebrand
because
a
man
named
Andrew
has
made
the
name
Andrew
functionally
radioactive.
This
is
either
the
funniest
or
the
most
depressing
thing
to
happen
to
ecclesiastical
architecture
since
Henry
VIII,
and
Henry
VIII
at
least
had
the
decency
to
be
dead
about
it
by
now.

The
Andrew
Problem:
A
Reform-Adjacent
Analysis

Andrew
is
a
name.
It
is
also
a
situation.
It
is
also,
apparently,
a
liability
in
the
property
and
ecclesiastical
branding
sense.

The
BBC’s
UK
desk
has
covered
the
Duke
of
York’s
various
complications
at
length.
The
complications
have
now
become
structural
in
both
the
reputational
and
the
literally-carved-in-stone
sense.

On
the
Isle
of
Man
we
name
things
carefully
and
leave
them
named.
We
also
do
not
have
a
Duke
of
York.
I
consider
this
a
quality-of-life
improvement.

Do
we
really
need
a
national
villain?
asks
The
London
Prat.
The
cathedral
has
answered:
no,
but
we
appear
to
have
one
anyway.