On Tuesday, the Daily Mail’s front page featured a banner headline in blaring yellow: “PRINCES’ TURBULENT TIMES.” It tied together, however awkwardly, the two stories that have dominated headlines in what’s otherwise a slow, vacation season for the British royal family: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s use of private jets to travel in Europe, and Prince Andrew’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, apparently highlighted in part via flight records recently dug up by the Mail.

Even for regular tabloid readers, it might be hard to figure out which of these is the real scandal. Harry and Meghan’s jaunts around Europe have provided irresistible photo opportunities for the paparazzi who have caught them deplaning. With the couple’s celebrity friends weighing in and Prince William and Kate Middleton taking their own budget flights, the story keeps moving forward. Andrew, meanwhile, has laid low since Epstein’s arrest and subsequent suicide. The Palace has issued two statements denying allegations that Andrew had sex with underage women procured for him by Epstein, and royal sources say that Prince Charles is particularly upset by Andrew’s Epstein connection. But nearly everything about this story was already published in 2011, when the scandal first became public, forcing Andrew to resign as Britain’s special representative for Trade and Investment. It’s one of the biggest scandals the royal family has faced in several years, but for now, it can’t seem to gain traction.

Under normal circumstances, it’s obvious that Harry and Meghan would get tabloid attention and Andrew wouldn’t. The younger, more glamorous royals have been at the center of a media spectacle since their relationship first became public in 2016, and they’ve often embraced that spotlight in the name of supporting their favorite charities, or at the very least tolerated it. In recent years Andrew has more often been a bit player in stories about his more interesting relatives, like his daughter Princess Eugenie or ex-wife (and still a close friend) Sarah Ferguson. Given the scandals and shady friendships that tend to be included when Andrew is the media’s focus, the royal family probably would have been happy to keep it that way.

But even if the Epstein story isn’t the same focus in Britain as it is for the U.S. press, it should be capable of stealing focus, of emphasizing that while it’s fun to talk about Meghan and Harry’s vacation on Elton John’s dime or her love of avocado toast, it’s all meaningless compared to what Epstein—and, by association, Andrew—stand accused of. Instead, this August has been like nearly every month since Meghan first became the subject of unusually intense tabloid scrutiny, stories about their expensive home renovation and yoga habits replaced by hand-wringing over the carbon footprint of their private-jet use (never mind that last week the MailOnline also covered another climate change story, about a London university aiming to reduce meat consumption in the school cafeteria, with the print headline “Now snowflakes ban beef burgers.”) Flying in a private jet in the era of climate change is a morally dubious choice; so is remaining friends with a pedophile. And from the way the tabloids have covered them, you might think both choices carry equal weight.

The attention aimed at Harry’s lifestyle mirrors the British press’s longtime attention to the younger siblings of monarchs and heirs. Princess Margaret, the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth, was a social gadfly whose flings and vacations certainly attracted criticism and negative coverage in her lifetime. But, as columnist Craig Brown points out in his book Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret, she benefited from a different attitude among journalists and hangers-on, one that prioritized deference and discretion over the open airing of secrets. “People were right happy to sort of walk into a swimming pool fully dressed just to take her a glass of gin and tonic,” Brown said in an interview. “It was the last moment of that incredible deference.”