Here we go … Andrew to leave Royal Lodge and lose title

[Flixon]

Headlined in The Times just now …. About bloody time …

Ah, fair enough Serenster - though goodness knows what's gone on which meant he could be persuaded

@AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta I looked it up and the last one this happened to was Prince Ernest the Duke of Cumberland, back in 1917.
Apparently he swore allegiance to Germany during the war, which being German himself may have been a natural thing to do, but presumably didn't look good

Lownie also said the RF will be toast if all the stuff about the absolute disregard for tax payers money comes to light.

Very good statement. Should have been issued 2 weeks ago, if not way sooner.

Allowing Andrew to issue his own statement and the weaker measures were a mistake.

Shocked. But pleased.

I honestly didn't think that the title of 'Prince' could be taken away from him, as it's his birthright? Seems I was wrong.

Also seems (from that statement) that King Charles doesn't believe Andrew is innocent.

Also, it's good that they mentioned the survivors of the abuse, but it would have been nice to have mentioned the ones who didn't survive. (e.g. Virginia Giuffre.)

Oh, and SHAME on anyone comparing Harry to Andrew. Disgraceful. Harry is NOTHING like Andrew. What a vile thing to say.

The Monarch has the sole power to remove the Prince title, it doesn’t need an act of Parliament unlike the Duke title.

Do you really think he isn't a multi millionaire? With fairly huge resources running to at least quite a few millions if not more. Maybe not enough for a house in Grosvenor Square but I'd be confident they could buy somewhere for a few million.
Plus he hasn't agreed to surrender the lease without something in return. He's stupid but not utterly stupid.

Looks like it.

KC seems to have requested the Lord Chancellor to do this; I don't know if it's then passed on to Parliament.

Harry’s a gobshite but has not a broken the law , not slept with trafficked women, not maintained friendships with pedophiles not lied about all the above AND harry IS living in private accommodation making his own money

Thank you.

What is ironic is that he takes the name of his uncle who had very serious allegations against him as well.

Will peado also lose the Dukedom?

Lemme guess, he'll move into another property funded by ?

That we know about yet.

Well done for being so very brave Virginia …rest in peace

No backbone at all. Republic are taking out a private prosecution. Charles’ hand was forced.

It is.

The Duke of York, son and brother of monarchs, to be plain Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.

Unprecedented, certainly in modern times.

The statement says the King has 'inititated a formal process' to remove the style, titles and honours.

Presumably that means he will remove the ones he can (Prince, KG), and ask parliament to remove the one they need to (Duke).
It would make sense if the practicalities of it have already been discussed.

KC's request is with the Lord Chancellor.

As I said in the thread I started last week that there was no alternative. I am a die hard supporter of a CM and he was destroying the institution brick by brick.

How do you know he was happy to be seen with him? He looked pretty pissed off when Andrew kept chatting to him at the Duchess of Kent’s funeral. To say they are neighbours is quite a stretch. It’s not like they live in a cul de sac on an estate in Maidenhead. I think their homes are a couple of miles apart. Windsor Great Park is huge.

Hopefully he'll be so angry he'll decide to take others down with him and start naming names. Fingers crossed.

He hasn’t picked it. That’s their name. Decided a long time ago.

Public opinion?

This is a really good outcome in the light of his potentially criminal behaviour. Also satisfying when I think of his awful laughing and pushing to the front at the Duchess of Kent's funeral.

This would have been in process for sometime. Probably before Republic decided to grandstand.