Y'all Brits need to get some Yankee in ya and uproot these weeds.
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Y'all are busy installing your own king after all.
oh no how horrible, the pedophile is punished by living in a different luxury castle
I hate so much about this
the British monarch’s younger brother disgraced over his friendship with the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Sure, it' not like Andrew himself is a child predator… he is being punished because he was a "friend" of one
Charles will be funding Andrew’s relocation and provide his brother an annual stipend from his own private resources — basically, the former prince will not live out his vintage years at the expense of the British taxpayer.
Of course because Charles has money from his succesful plumbing career
Weird, still not a prison
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.
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
"Oh no! Not Sandringham!" - Andrew, probably.
By all accounts Andrew will be fuming because he's up himself.
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.
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.
Private and remote enough that you need your own Lolita Express to get there.