Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, King Charles III's younger brother, is facing banishment from royal premises.
Andrew will be banished from royal premises to King Charles' private and remote Sandringham estate
https://apnews.com/article/britain-andrew-sandringham-king-charles-3ce1576fd3156112c0734755a0d5d854
25 Comments
Jhex@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 291d
oh no how horrible, the pedophile is punished by living in a different luxury castle
I hate so much about this
Sure, it' not like Andrew himself is a child predator… he is being punished because he was a "friend" of one
Of course because Charles has money from his succesful plumbing career
48954246@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 291d
Weird, still not a prison
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · -11 pts · 291d
Did we even know if he knowingly committed a crime?
What he did was disgusting and sleazy, but we would need evidence that he knew Virginia Giuffre was being trafficked, we don't even have enough evidence for that to speculate on.
Seleni@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 291d
He had sex with underage girls. Wtf is wrong with you, defending a pedo?
FishFace@piefed.social · 9 pts · 290d
Can you prove it in court? If not, he shouldn't go to prison. It's an easy formula.
I'm perfectly happy calling him a nonce, but I'm also one of those old-fashioned types who values the rule of law and all...
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 290d
Not even an accusation against him. He'd have to know she was being trafficked in order to be legally guilty. I wouldn't be surprised if they chose a stupid idiot depraved prince to be their scapegoat.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 290d
He has not been accused of doing that, in or out of court.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 291d
Virginia Giuffre was 17. That's not underage according to the laws of New York, USA and England, United Kingdom.
And I'm not defending him. I'm only stating fact. As much as I'd like to see him locked up, you can only do so within the law.
dumbass@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 290d
Nice try Andrew, but you can't trick us.
jlow@discuss.tchncs.de · 17 pts · 291d
How about we ban all the "royalty" from all these estates (and confiscate their wealth while we're on it) and use them for housing poor and homeless (and their wealth to finance this)? That seems less prone to scandals.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · -6 pts · 291d
That's theft
Also they aren't even that rich by modern standards. They aren't billionaires.
Most of the profit their land makes goes to the treasury anyway. They only get a tiny fraction of it
jlow@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 290d
Theft is what rich people have done to others for millennia.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 289d
True
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · -7 pts · 291d
So you want to steal their private property? Then bankrupt a lot of homeless charities by making them use very expensive buildings, then have a lot of bored people with nothing to do because they’re stuck in a country estate?
UrbonMaximus@feddit.uk · 11 pts · 291d
How do you think the royals and nobility got their estates?
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · -2 pts · 291d
By purchase, in the case of Sandringham.
UrbonMaximus@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 290d
As I thought... "the land was awarded to a Norman knight, Robert Fitz-Corbun after the Norman Conquest." So the government can "steal" it and sell it to a non profit, this way people like you should be ok with it.
danielquinn@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 291d
"Oh no! Not Sandringham!" - Andrew, probably.
FishFace@piefed.social · 1 pts · 290d
By all accounts Andrew will be fuming because he's up himself.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 291d
Remote apart from the hourly train to King’s Cross and being a straight drive up the A10, and being ten minutes away from King’s Lynn… Siberia would have been kinder.
MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 290d
https://sandringhamestate.co.uk/
You can have afternoon tea in the restaurant after your visit. And there's a gift shop of course.
So remote though.
ruuster13@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 291d
Private and remote enough that you need your own Lolita Express to get there.
Philharmonic3@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 290d
Y'all Brits need to get some Yankee in ya and uproot these weeds.
Lumisal@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 290d
*French.
Y'all are busy installing your own king after all.
Philharmonic3@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 290d
That's a fair point.