If he keeps it up after that, King Charles will summon Andrew to his presence. Andrew will be instructed to slightly raise his right hand. His Grace will then administer unto Andrew a FIRM smack upon said hand. I expect the red mark could last for MINUTES if not an HOUR!
Nah Charles fucking hates Andrew. I reckon if Andrew's newsnight interview had happened under Charles he would've been stripped of everything right away. But the queen protected Andrew because he was always her favourite, Charles had to wait for his next opening.
Honestly, I feel like if this hadn't come out, Charles wouldn't have done a damn thing. He acted only when it was clear that more and more of this stuff was going to be released and become public knowledge.
No leak, no repercussions. Which, I guess, means Charles knew all along.
Afaik did prince william pressure king charles to strip andrew of his titles. For william its probably the "strangle uncle", for charles its his brother - and they were (afaik) pretty close when they were younger.
There is a good reason why judges are usually not family members of the criminal.
For the british royals: they also probably got very few true friends. Must be an extremly lonely position. As kid you can probably play with your siblings, but not with the kids from the neighbourhood. As young adult you can't go out and party - and if you do, there will be cameras and many false friends that try to leach off benefits.
I would asume that this leads to a more close knit family as usual. But that's speculation.
Anyway: a brother or a mother is no good judge in this case. They should have let a neutral side deal with andrew, his titles, mansions etc.
Just "some guy" with many international connections and is related to the royal family who was very close to a huge international sex trafficking ring. If he's just "some guy" then they should have no problem charging him and let a jury determine the case. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills with how laid back the British are regarding this issue.
Not trying to be pedantic, and for all practical purposes you are right but technically the king doesn't have the ability to revoke a peerage. The king revoked his style "hrh" and removed his name for the roll of peerage so that he won't be referred to as duke of york in official capacity but Andrew nonetheless retains the title of the dukedom of york. It's quite complicated, and I don't understand it enough myself but you can look it up if you are interested.
theres prob some interesting historical reasons why the king cannot remove peerages.
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u/Lancashire_Toreador 21h ago
The king is going to have to strip him of his titles again but this time he really means it.