Government condsidering legislation to remove Andrew from line of succession

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Just heard this on the BBC News. Apparently King Charles can't do this it needs government legislation.Or maybe he can be persuaded to stand down (cant see it) I wonderif Beatrice and Eugenie will keep their places. I'd like to see all the Yorks removed and out of royal life.

Now or after conviction?

Ludicrous. Monarchy has nothing to do with merit. You don't have to be a decent person, just born to the right person
Time to get rid of the whole nonsense and declare a republic

We're all in the line of succession. If a person commits a crime, do they get removed?

Thank goodness. If we have to have a Royal family, making sure people like him don't get a look in on titles, prominence and the possibility of the top job is the least they can do. Think his daughters should be removed too. I'm not sure what they do to enhance their family.

Harry and his kids should be removed too, seeing as how he didn't want Royal life anymore.

They should put Anne and her kids in instead!

Agree. Royalists can’t pick and choose, we either have a royal family or we don’t. If you can remove someone from the line of succession you can just …elect a head of state! Job done.

Who cares if he is in it or not, he is so far down the line now he’ll never be king, however I think it will royally (pardon the pun) piss him off and damage his little ego so much if they do remove him and anything that makes his life worse is a win for me

I agree happy for all the yorks to go.

Australia backs removing Andrew from the LoS.

Anthony Albanese: in light of recent events concerning Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, I am writing to confirm that my government would agree to any proposal to remove him from the line of royal succession.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr5lrny83dgo

Christopher Luxon, PM of New Zealand, backs moves to remove AMW from line of succession.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor: Australia and New Zealand back plans to remove him from line of succession | Politics News | Sky News https://share.google/WM6u1Qhdce2Eom6It

Removing him shows in neon lights what utter bollocks the whole ridiculous system is.

Get rid of the whole grasping lot of the benefit scroungers

Basically grandstanding by politicians who want a bit of moral capital and if they go through with it a pointless waste of legislative time.

I was raised to be a reluctant royalist (better than the alternative or not worth the fuss of changing). But over the last six or seven years I have gradually come to the conclusion that we should replace them with a figurehead, we could still use the term King or Queen but it would be someone genuinely outstanding elected or selected at random every few years from a field of Olympians, artists, scientists, people making a difference in communities, etc

He should be removed. Yes it’s absolutely unlikely that he’ll ever be King but it’s the principle. Harry as well, who’s shunned being a royal.

Yes, Princess Anne should be in there instead. She strikes me as pretty decent.

It doesn’t matter who is decent that isn’t how the monarchy works. It is about accident of birth not about who is good for the role.

I don't think it's the removal from the Line of Succession that's the important bit (as he is now so far down the list) but what this means is that if he is removed he won't be on the list of Counsellors of State and that is pretty important. I know they fiddled with the details so he was unlikely to serve but he shouldn't be on the list at all and this is the only way to remove him as far as i understand it.

Yes of course you’re correct but that doesn’t make it right and things should change.

How about removing everyone who knew what he was up to and covered his sorry arse? Good job his mother kicked the bucket, he's got £12 million quid of hers in his pocket as part of the cover up job. What would have been done about that if she was still alive?

You can't just pick and choose the Royal Family depending on whether you agree with their morals, that's not how it works. It's plain as day that if every wrong un in a position of power, Royal or not, was removed there would be a handful of people left, dust and tumbleweed.

The fact that people are suprised about this stuns me.

The posters saying we should remove the Sussexes and Yorks and put Anne in instead clearly don't understand that if the Sussexes and Yorks were to be removed, Anne and ALL those below her would automatically move up (until William&Kate or George, Charlotte or Louis had legitimate offspring, when anyone below them would move down again).
In theory, everyone on the planet - barring Catholics - is in the line of succession. In the event of an outbreak of plague and all the Windsors dying, the genealogists would work their way through random cousin by random cousin until they found a living person to succeed.

The chances of this happening are minute, and it’s such a a waste of time, money and energy spending time on this. There are more pressing things the government needs to focus on. Stop wasting taxpayers money on this non-issue.

It's pointless window dressing.
AMW should be tried for both passing state secrets & having sex with a trafficked minor (in her country).

KCIII loaned AMW £4M of that £12M btw. Who loans their sibling large chunks of money to pay someone 'they barely met' for something they 'never did' ??

Down with the Crown.

Watching the scrabble to try and disassociate from those exposed, hopefully the thread continues to pull...

Please do. All of the yorks.

I am inclined to believe Prince Andrew’s loss of titles and proposed loss of his place in the LOS are just attempts to pacify the people in hopes they will lose interest, sooner rather than later and the matter will end there.

Also, it seems that he’s really not lost his titles because the parliamentary process needed hasn’t been completed - if it ever is.

Btw, the Australian Prime Minister called Prince Andrew a ‘grub’ yesterday. The PM would not be without some knowledge of the situation. Read into that what you will.

Has the palace made a statement apologizing for calling Virginia Guiffre a liar, yet? I won’t hold my breath.

People have been removed before - prior to 1685 they just got executed (and possibly an Act of Attainder in Parliament to remove their heirs), after 1685 it's been done by Parliament without the execution part...

Edward VIII's abdication was 'removal' of a sort, as he was told by the PM that he couldn't remain king AND marry Wallis. He chose abdication, but what he wanted was to remain king and marry her.

Since 1685 Parliament has had the final say.

I think 99% of the population think he's a 'grub' - no inside knowledge needed...

Unless 'grub' has a specific meaning in Aus other than 'generally unpleasant person'?

Remove titles from all non working royals in one go.