[pierrem15]

I agree with you. Partly it's applying contemporary standards to what was common behavior (in terms of seduction) for powerful men a few decades ago.

But mainly it's the British establishment venting its spleen at a social-climbing foreigner whom they detested for decades, and also getting back at him for the claims he made about the royals & British secret services being involved in Diana's and his son's deaths.

[RandFan]

It does feel this way and all the coverage devoted to it

Very strange the whole thing. Where is the case for the defense? Where is the balance?