You’re probably right, but it still is the right thing to say. If you have to pay somebody else to write it and can afford the best, it’s the way to go. But you know, it just might have been Andy hissef. You never know.
I know the Duke of York very well. He probably did write this himself, but he has been very well taught what the right things to say and write are.
I would guess that at the time it happened, the police officers were treated to the full vernacular of a career sailor in full flow, followed by the the type of dressing down only a senior officer knows how to give.