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.

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.

  • blazeknave@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    8 hours ago

    Have they said or inferred the quiet part outloud at all through any of this? In justifying the punishments? What’s the official story?

  • EndOfLine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    312·
    15 hours ago

    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

      • Grimy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        10 hours ago

        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.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 hours 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.

  • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
    32·
    17 hours ago

    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.

  • comador @lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    17 hours ago

    New titles include:

    • Prince Pedophile
    • The Royal Derrière
    • The Keeper of The Hooker
    • Guardian of The White Van
    • The Little Diddler That Could

    and many more.

      • vrek@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        12 hours ago

        Ok these are horrible crimes but is that real? If so do you have a source of any stories about him?

        • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          12 hours ago

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Hooker

          The widespread belief that the slang term “hooker,” referring to a prostitute, originates from General Hooker’s surname due to illicit gatherings and insufficient military discipline at his headquarters near the Murder Bay district of Washington, DC, has persisted in popular culture.[26] Certain iterations of this legend suggest that the contingent of prostitutes who followed his division were pejoratively labeled as “General Hooker’s Army” or “Hooker’s Brigade.”[27] Nevertheless, historical evidence demonstrates that the term “hooker” appeared in published sources as early as 1845, predating General Hooker’s rise to public prominence.[28] Linguistic and historical scholarship instead points to the term’s likely derivation from the significant population of prostitutes in the Corlear’s Hook area of Manhattan during the early to mid-19th century, where the appellation “hooker” became commonplace.[29] While the enduring association between the general’s name and the term may have contributed to its broader popularization,[30] contemporary evidence indicates that an area in Washington, DC known for prostitution during the Civil War was colloquially identified as “Hooker’s Division”—a label later abbreviated to “The Division” during General Hooker’s tenure in the city following the First Battle of Bull Run, where he was tasked with defending the capital.[31] Consequently, the link between the term and General Hooker, though culturally persistent, is undermined by substantial historical documentation that favors alternative etymologies.

    • Album@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      17 hours ago

      Yep so you know it’s bad because Royal blood is pretty thick.

        • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          7 hours ago

          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.

              • tuck182@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                7 hours ago

                Right, my comment was more tongue-in-cheek than serious, though it’s always seemed odd to me that “bleeds more easily” got named “loves blood”.

  • discosnails@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    4·
    17 hours ago

    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.