LONDON

THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT may reintroduce trial by ordeal if Andrew Mountbatten Windsor ever finds himself before a court following his arrest by police, according to a well-known academic.

“This would permit the former prince to defend himself in combat,” says historian Professor Dan Starkrayve, who has argued for a reintroduction of medieval legal practices to give the law more gravitas than it currently enjoys. “If he won such a combat, he would be innocent; it he lost the embarrassment of his situation would disappear with him. Win-win, I think,” he said. “And it has support in the House of Lords and some positive whispers in the Commons. Maybe Netflix could broadcast it.”