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The only good royal is dead one.
Okay, citizen Andrew Windsor-Mountbatten.
Should be calling him by a number
I think we really should stick to calling him “Prince Andrew.” If we don’t we’re letting the monarchy separate itself from him…but that’s bullshit; he has the privilege of being a prince and his status as prince is not just what gave him the liberty to be a monster, but I think we can assume it’s what actually made him a monster.
The Andrew formerly known as a prince.
I heard a very interesting argument that if the Royal family can remove Andrew from the line of succession, then the line itself can be manipulated, and anyone else could be added. In that case, what is the point of having a royal family?
Seems a little threadbare as a theory.
People have been adding other people to royal families for the entirety of recorded history.
Sometimes its through marriage, but sometimes its adoption, sometimes they just make up a lineage.
Now, theres arguments against royalty, for sure, but if the royal family wasn't allowed to prune itself, find the best people and merge them into the royal family, etc, there never would've been royals in the first place. Royal families begin with individuals but they remain by caring about "good breeding" (and other ways of consolidating power).
Consolidating is the real purpose. It can be obscured with religious lines of divinity, or what have you, but royal families are always shopping for people to incorporate.
Eh… I have mixed feelings on that.
Firstly, I don’t think his position made him a monster. I absolutely think it made it easier to become one, but there are plenty of opportunistic pedophiles who aren’t princes. In fact I don’t think it’s a far stretch to say the vast majority aren’t princes
Secondly, correct me if I’m wrong but hasn’t the majority of his privilege been stripped from him? Yeah, he can still visit royal places and such, but doesn’t he have about the same “power” as an in law or something?
There’s also the question of if the monarchy enabled his actions. Though, again I admit they may not have done enough after learning of his actions.
As a Canadian who never really paid attention to British royalty, this feels a lot like blaming a family for one member committing a mass murder. But that could just be a lack of understanding on my part.
Well when the family has a long history of mass murder....
The pedophile traitor deserves a single finger salute and tell him to fetch his own beer.
Sir Pedophile
People are very negative but they don't understand the house of windsor and how tradional it is. What else is traditional. The stockades.
I think it's particularly hilarious that for all the talk of tradition, the house of "Windsor" was a name chosen during WWI, barely more than a century ago. The original name was "Saxe-Coburg and Gotha", but somewhat awkwardly German bombers built by Gothaer Waggonfabrik and popularly known as "Gothas" happened to be dropping explosives on London.
why did they not go with saxe-cokburg?
To answer your query specifically, Saxe-Cokburg would have been more honest for a bunch of Anglo-Saxons
on hindsite I wish I had used an x but then again it would duplicative of saxe. still. can't have enough x.
Where is he interacting with royal staff these days?
lol ok sure, Andrew formerly known as Prince
The thing about "prince" is that it's halfway to "nonce"
i mean he did serve in the military. did the british military disavow him yet?
I'd literally tell him to "fuck off I'll call you Nonce Andrew, and if you threaten me I'll go to the press and tell them even more shit that will get you in prison, you fucking nonce. Now get on your knees and apologise. And then I'd film it, and send it to the press"
Good luck having rights while working for any of the royals
https://londondaily.com/buckingham-palace-banned-ethnic-minorities-from-office-roles-papers-reveal
Racist fucks doing racist fuckery
Same as it ever was
"Yes, sir. Flagon of ale for the child rapist, sir. And absolutely nobody has done anything untoward in it, sir".
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A huge piece of shit in almost every respect, but the character had his moments of poignancy.
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His staff are on record as saying they call him "the cunt" when he's not around. I forget which interview that was but it was a former staff member on a TV interview.
Seen it, I think it was an interview with one of the security staff
Why does this fucker get royal staff?
He's still uber rich. Between being mummy's favourite and being the literal shaddy deal's man for the British government for a while, he probably has more money than he would be able to spend.
It stands for "Sweat Isn't Real"
What a bizarre claim to make, that he can't sweat was it? Obviously not true, he was in the military I think, even as a helicopter pilot he wouldn't be able to serve if he couldn't sweat. You wouldn't be able to live without sweating first time you get some exercize you would get brain damage, or first trip to the subtropics, from the heat. Your balls would get fried too.
Guy obviously can sweat if he couldn't he would be like a bubble boy.
The really incredible thing is that he thought everyone was dumb enough to fall for all the bullshit in that interview. "I have a tendency to be too honourable." FFS.
“I have a tendency to be too honourable.”
Lol I used to say something like that in response to the dreaded "what is your biggest weakness?" interview question. "Sometimes I care too much."
Ah yes, I wonder if there is a word for someone of importance that is surrounded by yes men and yes woman that never gets called on their bullshit and therefore makes dumb arguments because everyone they are in contact with pretends to believe them?
The helicopter pilot was his nephew, Harry. I believe Andrew served in the Navy during the Falklands war.
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Here is your beer “Sir” …
This Saxon Royalist shit heap deserves to be buried in an unmarked grave. Ideally without building a parking lot over his insipid pedophilic corpse so as to deny him even identification after centuries of disgraced death.
While I appreciate the sentiment, I wouldn't want future archaeologists to waste time trying to identify the nonce. Carve his name and crimes on his bones before he's buried in an unmarked grave
Edit: also Saxon? I thought the British royals were descendents of Charlemagne, who famously killed the Saxons.
Sir Christopher Lee was descended from Charlemagne more closely than most, but the British Royal family is just a branch of the Von Hohenzollerns having renamed themselves after due to political reasons. Also I was using the term Saxon as a reference to southern England which was settle by the Saxon tribes while northern England was settled largely by the Anglo tribes.
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