While Andrew initially announced he would no longer use his royal titles, there were further damaging allegations about his relationship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, prompting the King to formally remove his honours.
Andrew's prince title and HRH style formally removed by the King
https://news.sky.com/story/andrews-titles-formally-removed-by-the-king-13464744
58 Comments
EndOfLine@lemmy.world · 54 pts · 288d
-- King Charles, maybe
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 288d
To be fair, the king can't just arbitrarily throw someone in the dungeon anymore.
Grimy@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 288d
They have known about this for years and protected him. In this case, they probably did have the means to make sure he ended up in prison, and probably still do.
nogooduser@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 288d
I read an article on this a while ago and I’m not sure what UK crimes he is known to have committed.
Our age of consent is 16 so he didn’t sexually assault a minor. If he did what he did then in the present day then he’d have broken sex trafficking laws but those laws were weak or non existent at the time.
Obviously, there’s a fair chance that he did commit a crime that we don’t know about and finding out about that would be made very difficult due to who he is.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 287d
Depends on the king. Trump does it to thousands.
Taleya@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 287d
That's no king, that's a cheesy conman
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 286d
Most kings who didn't came to power through birth right did it it through crime and violence and made themselves king. Only with Trump people voted for it. What a boring dystopia we live in.
Hupf@feddit.org · 2 pts · 287d
https://www.the-postillon.com/2017/06/queen.html?m=1
LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 288d
That truly is a brutal punishment. I understand he deserves punishment but I can't condone something so horrific. 5000+sqft is inhumane 😢
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 288d
He might actually have to see the help, I am aghast
Taleya@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 287d
If you're gonna give him something like that, you ban staff.
Hilarity should ensue.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 288d
That's just the toilet.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 285d
It's worse than that, I'm sure Charles also gave him a stern talking-to.
stoy@lemmy.zip · 41 pts · 288d
When I read the "HRH" title abbreviation it reminded me of my first trip abroad.
I am a Swede and in the early nineties me and my family decided to take a trip to the UK, we took the family car and dad drove to the ferry, this was a Swedish car, with Swedish plates, and a clear national identifying sticker on the back noting us as Swedes.
As we drove around in the UK, we noted that a lot of cars seemed to flash their indicators at us, weird....
It took a few days but then we realized that our registration plate said "HRH 123", and we felt quite self conscious after that...
Anyway that was my story, and I'd rather post about that than read more about the shithead this article concerns.
comador@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 288d
At least it wasn't HMS or you may have had a bunch of Seamen chasing you around.
stoy@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 288d
egrets@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 287d
In my embellished mental image of this, you're careening down the wrong side of the road, puzzled why everyone's flashing their lights at you and honking, until one of you says, "Oh, it must be the number plate."
stoy@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 287d
Hehe, I was thinking about that as I wrote it....
Here in Sweden, we normally make fun of Norwegians with stupid jokes, and we have one about a Norwegian guy traveling to the UK with his car.
He is driving down the motorway in the UK, listening to the radio when he hears this:
"This is an emergency alert, there is a car driving against the flow of traffic on the A1 just south of Newcastle...."
The Norwegian blurts out (in Norwegian):
"One? There are thousands"
comador@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 288d
New titles include:
and many more.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 288d
The Nonce formerly known as Prince.
LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 288d
That one is amazing. I'd guild you if i could
ButteryMonkey@piefed.social · 9 pts · 288d
Do you mean gild?
LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 288d
Haha i did indeed thanks
SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 288d
I think they mean geld
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 288d
General Hooker was an American general during The Civil War.
He can't have that title.
vrek@programming.dev · 3 pts · 288d
Ok these are horrible crimes but is that real? If so do you have a source of any stories about him?
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 288d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Hooker
The widespread belief that the slang term "hooker," referring to a prostitute, originates from General Hooker's surname due to illicit gatherings and insufficient military discipline at his headquarters near the Murder Bay district of Washington, DC, has persisted in popular culture.[26] Certain iterations of this legend suggest that the contingent of prostitutes who followed his division were pejoratively labeled as "General Hooker's Army" or "Hooker's Brigade."[27] Nevertheless, historical evidence demonstrates that the term "hooker" appeared in published sources as early as 1845, predating General Hooker's rise to public prominence.[28] Linguistic and historical scholarship instead points to the term’s likely derivation from the significant population of prostitutes in the Corlear’s Hook area of Manhattan during the early to mid-19th century, where the appellation "hooker" became commonplace.[29] While the enduring association between the general's name and the term may have contributed to its broader popularization,[30] contemporary evidence indicates that an area in Washington, DC known for prostitution during the Civil War was colloquially identified as "Hooker's Division"—a label later abbreviated to "The Division" during General Hooker’s tenure in the city following the First Battle of Bull Run, where he was tasked with defending the capital.[31] Consequently, the link between the term and General Hooker, though culturally persistent, is undermined by substantial historical documentation that favors alternative etymologies.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 286d
NONCE PRINCE OF england,
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 288d
The Andrew formerly known as prince
FEIN@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 287d
who innapropriately produced white rain near the wrong audience
Bonesince1997@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 288d
Anything but prison time, eh?
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 288d
The King of England doesn't have the power to arbitrarily jail someone any more.
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 288d
I mean a reality tv guy/multiple felon pedo is announcing nuclear plans over here, at least Charles is still an actual King just start decreeing King shit 🤷♂️
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 288d
The UK has decapitated kings who just started decreeing shit before.
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 288d
And I really hope our wannabe monarch continues
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 3 pts · 288d
Come on that's unfair for Randy Andy, Prince of the Nonces. Sweaty Boy Andy can't be a real prince anymore. That's worse than prison.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 288d
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 287d
Great. What about his prison sentence?
makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 288d
And jail time?
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 11 pts · 288d
I'm glad they caught the one person involved in this ...
pressedhams@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 288d
Yea, it’s nice to see someone finally be held accountable. /s
manxu@piefed.social · 11 pts · 288d
Awkward. That's his younger brother.
Album@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 288d
Yep so you know it's bad because Royal blood is pretty thick.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 288d
actually they all have hemophilia, so pretty thin.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 288d
What's the reverse of hemophilia? I clot IV needles. They won't let me give blood anymore because I clot the needle so fast they've never gotten more than a cup or so.
Edit: I'm O+ so a half universal donor, so I would wager that they wouldn't normally turn me away.
tuck182@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 288d
Hemophobia?
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 288d
I mean linguistically, yes. In practice I think the terms are reversed or possibly just an incorrect descriptor.
tuck182@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 288d
Right, my comment was more tongue-in-cheek than serious, though it's always seemed odd to me that "bleeds more easily" got named "loves blood".
effrythinginmoderation@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 288d
Take two aspirin a couple hours before you give blood. It should make a difference you
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 287d
Thanks for the idea!
reddig33@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 288d
In exchange for his own mansion and a yearly stipend.
MourningDove@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 288d
bytesonbike@discuss.online · 1 pts · 287d
Apparently this freaking creepo went to Thailand in the 2000s and demanded teens. And that's on record by the like court Historian.
discosnails@lemmy.wtf · 4 pts · 288d
Idk how they think that this is going to excuse them all obviously knowing and condoning his actions for decades. Break out some of the good old shit from the tower. I bet the views for drawing and quartering that slimy bastard would be epic.
blazeknave@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 288d
Have they said or inferred the quiet part outloud at all through any of this? In justifying the punishments? What's the official story?
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 287d
How long until he meets the same fate as Ian Watkins?
LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 287d
That could well happen
SeeYouOsciLator@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 286d
scarabic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 287d
We need to figure out what to call him now, I guess. Can’t call him Prince Andrew. How about “Handsy Andy, Duke of Diddleshire?”
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 286d
the grand duke of nonce england.
Taleya@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 287d
Their kids now officially outrank 'em looool