To wonder why people care if Andrew is removed from the line of succession or not?

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Why does it matter?

He is 8th.

7 people, all of them fit and healthy, and five of them children, would need to die for him to become King.

3 of these people live on one continent, four on another.

It's so incredibly unlikely to happen that I don't understand why people are calling for it or why anyone needs to waste time and energy making it happen when there's clearly more important things going on right now.

Because it could, however slim and nigh on impossible the chances, happen.

It is a possibility

That is not acceptable

It needs closing as a loophole

I no longer care tbh

I dont feel sorry for him at all, but hes been scapegoated here - let's get the other men in the files!!

I couldn’t care less. I’m kinda sick of hearing about him tbh.

Well it's a matter of principal isn't it? One of the things about Andrew which was known long before the extent of his involvement with Epstein was revealed was his sense of entitlement. His utter certainty of his superiority. Thats why removing his titles will have hit hard and removing him from the line of succession will hit hard.

And even if it is incredibly unlikely he would ever become king even that small possibility should be taken away.

Because even if it never happens the optics of having someone accused of what he has done in the line of succession are very very bad. It sends completely the wrong message about the acceptability of his behaviour.

I think he's an absolute piece of shit that needs to go to prison for a really long time and that the worst things happen to him while he's in there. No sympathy whatsoever.

I just don't think it's worth going through the ball ache of a process to remove him from succession. I don't think people maybe realise how much of a ball ache it actually is, and how much time effort and money it will take to put it through the legal systems of all the different countries of them commonwealth, and getting them all to agree.

All for something that's never going to happen. It's got to be less than 1 in a million chance?

And with all that other shit going on in the world that is so much more important and needs all of our focus.

He’s a truly appalling person but at the same time the most perfect scapegoat.

I’d say it’s because he’s not exactly known for having a strong moral compass. Take him out of the line of succession and, statistically speaking, it probably reduces the chances of him trying to clear out everyone ahead of him just to get the crown.

Well that, or it's more about showing he's being held accountable (in some way).

I agree with you, I don’t want him in the line of succession but realistically he’s never going to be King. The time, effort and money it would take to remove him is better spent elsewhere given the state of the country right now

My thoughts exactly.

I think it would be a waste of parliments time.

I doubt it's half as fiddly to do as they make out. Hopefully all the commonwealth countries have replied and said remove him.

A YouTuber I like very much recently came up with the idea that it would be easier to just extend the law that changed male primogeniture to include the line of succession as it was before 2012.
So that would put Ann, and all of her line (2 children and 5 grandchildren) ahead of Andrew, pushing him down even further to something like 15th.

I like this idea! It makes Andrew more irrelevant while changing an outdated and sexist law.

Even if the possibility exists he would never be King. It would be the end of the Monarchy as no one would accept him.

If fact probably better to leave it as a reminder to other Royals that their “birthright” is only as worthwhile as their effort.

It can’t possibly be that hard.

People want to him removed because having him in the line of succession reminds everyone of what an insane system hereditary monarchy is — you literally get whoever is next in line, whether they’re a dutiful drone with 2 GCSEs, a Nazi sympathiser or someone who has sex with trafficked girls.

I think that even if some horrendous tragedy, or some horrific crime made out to be a horrendous tragedy did occur, and Andrew was to become King.... There's just no way people would accept it.

There would be uproar, riots, it simply would not fly. Andrew being crowned on Westminster Abbey and having his face on our banknotes? Noone is going to allow that to happen.

I say cross that extremely unlikely bridge when we never come to it.

Excellent point!!

But he's not next in line. He's very far down the line in real terms.

If it wasn't for all of his bullshit, he's probably have semi-obscurity like Prince Edward, by now.

But that’s not the point. The point is that it’s a pure lottery. Andrew, just like Edward VIII is a reminder of just what shit that bloodline regularly throws up. It’s enough to get forelock-tiggers to think again.

Because it's about status and it being acceptable as a possibility.

Why not make me 25th in line to the throne? It's so unlikely I'd become Queen, so why not do it?

I couldn’t care less about the line of succession.

I am far more interested in seeing him prosecuted.

I agree. I hope it happens. But I’m doubtful.

Not to be funny but I thought the whole thing about monarchy is that it's all ordained by God? And if God chooses to cull everyone ahead of him in the line then Andrew is clearly his choice and we need to suck it up. After all, many of our previous monarchs have committed heinous crimes.

Of course, we could say the whole monarchy thing is a pile of bullshit and get rid of the lot of them...

The point is, no matter how shit he is, and he really is the lowest grade piece of shit imaginable, like I would burn my shoes if I stepped in him level of shit, he's really quite irrelevant in terms of succession.

Edward VIII was very relevant and needed removing because, well, he was Edward VIII, he'd already landed the "top job" with no challengers. He was not a disgraced second son with a brother who is crowned, relatively popular, and in possession of no less than 7 strong heirs.

We have major world wars going on, a housing crisis, children living in poverty, knife crime on the rise again, etc etc. Is it really worth Parliament's time simply so we can issue another "fuck you" to a man who's already had almost everything he holds dear stripped from him and is looking at a criminal conviction and a prison sentence? As much as we'd love to stick the boot in as much as possible, it's just not worth it.

If we're going along that line then we can simply take a leaf out of our medieval monarch's book, fight it out, and claim God will help the right side to win.