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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.

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[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 21 points 5 days ago (3 children)

To be fair, the king can't just arbitrarily throw someone in the dungeon anymore.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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 points 5 days ago

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 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Depends on the king. Trump does it to thousands.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's no king, that's a cheesy conman

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago

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.