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Andrew will be banished from royal premises to King Charles' private and remote Sandringham estate (apnews.com)

submitted 4 days ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, King Charles III's younger brother, is facing banishment from royal premises.

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[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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

[–] 48954246@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Weird, still not a prison

[+] Flax_vert@feddit.uk -10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] dumbass@aussie.zone 3 points 3 days ago

Nice try Andrew, but you can't trick us.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (3 children)

He had sex with underage girls. Wtf is wrong with you, defending a pedo?

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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 points 3 days ago

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 points 3 days ago

He has not been accused of doing that, in or out of court.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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.

[–] jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"Oh no! Not Sandringham!" - Andrew, probably.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

By all accounts Andrew will be fuming because he's up himself.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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 points 3 days ago

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 3 points 4 days ago

Private and remote enough that you need your own Lolita Express to get there.

[–] Philharmonic3@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Y'all Brits need to get some Yankee in ya and uproot these weeds.

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

*French.

Y'all are busy installing your own king after all.

[–] Philharmonic3@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

That's a fair point.