Prince Andrew, Duke of York, named in underage 'sex slave' lawsuit

[not-bono-ever]

maybe HRH Liz has seen the light and decided to wind down the monarchy to avoid a yekaterinburg style showdown ?

 

[petee]

i can't keep up, if he is still duke of york, does that mean he has a tidy income and a nice house despite all?

 

[not-bono-ever]

his mum is loaded

 

[UrbaneFox]

The revolver, in the ballroom.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Is there a town that rhymes with Nonce ?

Bronx?

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

Provence?

 

[Wilf]

Perhaps they should give the Dukedom to that bloke who paid for johnson's wallpaper?

 

[Raheem]

Make it an elected position where you need 10,000 men to sign your paperwork in order to stand.

 

[existentialist]

Let me make it clear, I think he's guilty, on the balance of probabilities, and I readily condemn anyone who abuses others

It seems a little sad that someone who could, if he'd been a decent and honourable man, have done so much good for the forces on the back of his experience.

The forces were not that enamoured of him while he was acquiring that experience, TBF.

 

[existentialist]

Why specifically, do you know ? General twattishness or something specific ?

I reckon he's being thrown under the bus for this to save worse things coming out.

I'd heard he wasn't well thought of. Fancied himself beyond his abilities.

 

[steveseagull]

She is going for his throat, not his $$$

 

[steveseagull]

 

[David Clapson]

He's being allowed to keep his naval rank of Vice-Admiral, to keep him in line with his peers in the Navy. But he wouldn't have got past Lieutenant if he'd been a civilian. That's if he'd not been rejected at the interview.

I wonder how many of the royal helicopter pilots would have got the job if they'd been civilians? Charles, Andrew, Harry and William apparently all good enough to get one of the most competitive jobs in the world.

 

[High Voltage]

Wasn't /isn't one of them an Apache pilot. IF truly gained on merit, that's impressive I believe, but if strings were pulled...

 

[Sprocket.]

i can't keep up, if he is still duke of york, does that mean he has a tidy income and a nice house despite all?

The Duke title can be removed by an act of parliament. The last time any Dukedoms were removed was during WW1, when two Royal Dukes sided with the Royal family’s cousin Wilhelm II the German Kaiser.
The HRH title used to be used by all members of the family, but recently came to identify one of those who served an official capacity and therefore received money from the civil list for the duties they provided.
Harry walked away from this and gave up his HRH privileges.

 

[petee]

The Duke title can be removed by an act of parliament. The last time any Dukedoms were removed was during WW1, when two Royal Dukes sided with the Royal family’s cousin Wilhelm II the German Kaiser.
The HRH title used to be used by all members of the family, but recently came to identify one of those who served an official capacity and therefore received money from the civil list for the duties they provided.
Harry walked away from this and gave up his HRH privileges.

i see. so having been stripped of the HRH, he receives no money from this civil list (see below). but is there some feudal possession that goes with Duke of York - lands, a castle - the would provide an income?

wiki tells me the civil list was abolished recently but something wss put in its place.

 

[ruffneck23]

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

i see. so having been stripped of the HRH, he receives no money from this civil list (see below). but is there some feudal possession that goes with Duke of York - lands, a castle - the would provide an income?

wiki tells me the civil list was abolished recently but something wss put in its place.

No, he just sponges off his mum, like any honourable 61 year old does.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

So no longer HRH Prince Andrew. Will the court in NY be able to call him Mr Windsor? That’ll sting.

 

[brogdale]

"The establishment are conspiring to keep [shit thing] out of the news by running stories on [other shit thing] is my least favourite leftist social media take. It attributes way too much coordination to the different sections of the establishment, and in most circumstances assumes too much ability to control when things get released. It's leftie conspiracy theory basically.

Take your point, but in the case of the “spy” story that was simply a matter of Patel deciding to go public and, as we know, the tories have long loved the dead cat strategy. I accept that the timing of Andrew’s defenestration might well be coincidental but, then again, I imagine such things would be discussed between Buckingham House & No. 10?

Either way, it didn’t really work and parties are back!

 

[brogdale]

So no longer HRH Prince Andrew. Will the court in NY be able to call him Mr Windsor? That’ll sting.

Isn’t that (possibly unhelpfully ?) properly Mr Mountbatten-Windsor?

 

[not-bono-ever]

Does this seemingly symbolic but pointless exercise in de royaling this nonce have any impact on his seizable asset base ?

 

[maomao]

Take your point, but in the case of the “spy” story that was simply a matter of Patel deciding to go public and, as we know, the tories have long loved the dead cat strategy. I accept that the timing of Andrew’s defenestration might well be coincidental but, then again, I imagine such things would be discussed between Buckingham House & No. 10?

Either way, it didn’t really work and parties are back!

The Chinese spy story was definitely a plant, almost comically so, but I seriously doubt Buck Pal would lift a finger to help and certainly not with something this damaging to them.

 

[Sprocket.]

i see. so having been stripped of the HRH, he receives no money from this civil list (see below). but is there some feudal possession that goes with Duke of York - lands, a castle - the would provide an income?

wiki tells me the civil list was abolished recently but something wss put in its place.

Yes not the civil list I couldn’t remember what it had become. I replied to your post whilst letting the dogs out in the middle of the night.
The title Duke of York is usually given to the reining monarch’s second son.

 

[quiet guy]

The Sovereign Grant replaced The Civil List. Same thing different name, just means that more departments in Whitehall now foot different elements of monies that Liz receives.

 

[surreybrowncap]

Wasn't /isn't one of them an Apache pilot. IF truly gained on merit, that's impressive I believe, but if strings were pulled...

That was Prince Harry I believe.

 

[Pickman's model]

i see. so having been stripped of the HRH, he receives no money from this civil list (see below). but is there some feudal possession that goes with Duke of York - lands, a castle - the would provide an income?

a sob story

 

[rubbershoes]

So no longer HRH Prince Andrew. Will the court in NY be able to call him Mr Windsor? That’ll sting.

Afaik still Prince Andrew, just not HRH any more

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Afaik still Prince Andrew, just not HRH any more

Heh, seems he will still be known as HRH in private so that he doesn't need to bow to Baldy's kids, or indeed his own kids.

What a fucking bunch of dicks.

 

[rubbershoes]

What a fucking bunch of dicks.

I concur with the honourable member's assessment