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For the crimes of sexual assault of minors I sentence you to be called MISTER Andrew Windsor! You must also downsize your nearly rent free free housing to a mere 5,000+ sqft cottage next to Windsor castle. It pains me to be so harsh to my own brother, but an example must be made. Let this be a warning for all pedophiles throughout the kingdom!
-- King Charles, maybe
To be fair, the king can't just arbitrarily throw someone in the dungeon anymore.
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.
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.
Depends on the king. Trump does it to thousands.
That's no king, that's a cheesy conman
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.
That truly is a brutal punishment. I understand he deserves punishment but I can't condone something so horrific. 5000+sqft is inhumane 😢
It's worse than that, I'm sure Charles also gave him a stern talking-to.
He might actually have to see the help, I am aghast
If you're gonna give him something like that, you ban staff.
Hilarity should ensue.
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.
At least it wasn't HMS or you may have had a bunch of Seamen chasing you around.
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."
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"
Great. What about his prison sentence?
The Andrew formerly known as prince
who innapropriately produced white rain near the wrong audience
Anything but prison time, eh?
The King of England doesn't have the power to arbitrarily jail someone any more.
New titles include:
and many more.
The Nonce formerly known as Prince.
That one is amazing. I'd guild you if i could
NONCE PRINCE OF england,
General Hooker was an American general during The Civil War.
He can't have that title.
Ok these are horrible crimes but is that real? If so do you have a source of any stories about him?
In exchange for his own mansion and a yearly stipend.
Awkward. That's his younger brother.
Yep so you know it's bad because Royal blood is pretty thick.
actually they all have hemophilia, so pretty thin.
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.
Totally the types of things that happen to people that are not kid-fuckers.
Apparently this freaking creepo went to Thailand in the 2000s and demanded teens. And that's on record by the like court Historian.
I'm glad they caught the one person involved in this ...
Yea, it’s nice to see someone finally be held accountable. /s
What about a conviction and prison sentence? "oh noooo, boohoo, no more titles, the inhumanity! The suffering, the horrors!"
Their kids now officially outrank 'em looool
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?”
the grand duke of nonce england.
How long until he meets the same fate as Ian Watkins?
That could well happen
Have they said or inferred the quiet part outloud at all through any of this? In justifying the punishments? What's the official story?
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.