> Who's engineering the outcome?
The gutter press, for a start.
> Seems to me they're making their own choices.
According to your post of 16:19 there is no "they" ... instead there is a once happy-go-lucky and popular fellow reduced to a silly, simpering ‘yes’ man; and a manipulating, self-obsessed woman who is making the choices.
Whereas I believe that there is a "they", and that act as a unit ... which means that every criticism of her is a criticism of him, and vice versa. I feel sorry for the pair of them, for different reasons in each case.
I do think this could be the beginning of the end of the monarchy. We're beyond the time that people such as Harry can be born to this kind of life. It may be OK if you're directly in line to the throne, but the life mapped out for Harry (that he's rebelling against) is the one Andrew has struggled with in the previous generation, and the one that Charlotte and Louis (William and Catherine's younger two) are also going to have to deal with in following generations. The world is a very different place to 1952 when the queen came to the throne and the monarchy, which only moves at a generational pace, can't keep up with the rate of change now.