Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, King Charles III’s younger brother, is facing banishment from royal premises.

  • Jhex@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    27
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    2 days ago

    oh no how horrible, the pedophile is punished by living in a different luxury castle

    I hate so much about this

    the British monarch’s younger brother disgraced over his friendship with the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

    Sure, it’ not like Andrew himself is a child predator… he is being punished because he was a “friend” of one

    Charles will be funding Andrew’s relocation and provide his brother an annual stipend from his own private resources — basically, the former prince will not live out his vintage years at the expense of the British taxpayer.

    Of course because Charles has money from his succesful plumbing career

    • Flax@feddit.uk
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      14
      ·
      edit-2
      2 days ago

      Did we even know if he knowingly committed a crime?

      What he did was disgusting and sleazy, but we would need evidence that he knew Virginia Giuffre was being trafficked, we don’t even have enough evidence for that to speculate on.

      • Seleni@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        9
        arrow-down
        3
        ·
        2 days ago

        He had sex with underage girls. Wtf is wrong with you, defending a pedo?

        • FishFace@piefed.social
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          9
          ·
          2 days ago

          Can you prove it in court? If not, he shouldn’t go to prison. It’s an easy formula.

          I’m perfectly happy calling him a nonce, but I’m also one of those old-fashioned types who values the rule of law and all…

          • Flax@feddit.uk
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            23 hours ago

            Not even an accusation against him. He’d have to know she was being trafficked in order to be legally guilty. I wouldn’t be surprised if they chose a stupid idiot depraved prince to be their scapegoat.

        • Flax@feddit.uk
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          9
          arrow-down
          5
          ·
          edit-2
          2 days ago

          Virginia Giuffre was 17. That’s not underage according to the laws of New York, USA and England, United Kingdom.

          And I’m not defending him. I’m only stating fact. As much as I’d like to see him locked up, you can only do so within the law.

  • jlow (he / him)@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    20
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    2 days ago

    How about we ban all the “royalty” from all these estates (and confiscate their wealth while we’re on it) and use them for housing poor and homeless (and their wealth to finance this)? That seems less prone to scandals.

    • Flax@feddit.uk
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      arrow-down
      12
      ·
      edit-2
      2 days ago

      That’s theft

      Also they aren’t even that rich by modern standards. They aren’t billionaires.

      Most of the profit their land makes goes to the treasury anyway. They only get a tiny fraction of it

    • ohulancutash@feddit.uk
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      12
      ·
      2 days ago

      So you want to steal their private property? Then bankrupt a lot of homeless charities by making them use very expensive buildings, then have a lot of bored people with nothing to do because they’re stuck in a country estate?

          • MinMaximus@feddit.uk
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            6
            ·
            2 days ago

            As I thought… “the land was awarded to a Norman knight, Robert Fitz-Corbun after the Norman Conquest.” So the government can “steal” it and sell it to a non profit, this way people like you should be ok with it.

  • ohulancutash@feddit.uk
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    2 days ago

    Remote apart from the hourly train to King’s Cross and being a straight drive up the A10, and being ten minutes away from King’s Lynn… Siberia would have been kinder.