The Kunts For Jubilee Week Number One?

The Queen is facing the embarrassment of a protest single about her son Prince Andrew topping the charts for the Jubilee weekend. Essex punk band The Kunts‘ song Prince Andrew is a Sweaty Nonce is the week’s fastest selling song on Amazon, outselling new releases from Ed Sheeran and Liam Gallagher. In echoes of 1977 when the Sex Pistols‘ God Save The Queen was controversially removed from the chart listing after placing at number 2, the song has (not surprisingly) been banned from being played on BBC radio and the band’s YouTube channel was mysteriously removed on the eve of release.

Prince Andrew is a Sweaty Nonce is based around the children’s rhyme The Grand Old Duke of York. referring to Prince Andrew’s out of court settlement with Virginia Giuffre, it contains the lyrics, “The grand old Duke of York, He said he didn’t sweat, So why did he pay 12 million quid to a girl he’d never met?”. This is the latest grass roots social media campaign from The Kunts, who number among their supporters comedian Stewart Lee and Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker. The band are best known for their expletive-ridden protest songs about the Prime Minister, previously enjoying chart success with the top 5 hits Boris Johnson is a Fucking Cunt and Boris Johnson is STILL a Fucking Cunt.

Prince Andrew is a Sweaty Nonce can be streamed and purchased here.