Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, King Charles III’s younger brother, is facing internal exile

  • rozodru@pie.andmc.ca
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    24 hours ago

    Imagine being such a massive piece of shit child rapist that you get gifted a free mansion on the dime of tax payers.

    why? because it’d be cruel to strip him of EVERYTHING and leave him homeless on the streets of London? oh heaven forbid.

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      7 hours ago

      The tax payers don’t pay for this. It’s the royals’ property.
      So the tax payers hundreds of years ago paid for it.

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      12 hours ago

      How does it work with the royal family? Is that house theirs? Does that 100M come from their private holdings or is it all inextricably intertwined?

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        23 hours ago

        Our democratic process in the US has about as much power as the monarchy does in the UK.

        In the UK they bring out an old white guy with a crown and all play make believe.

        In the US we bring out an old white guy, vote, and make believe that what we did changed something.

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      21 hours ago

      Why? To prohibit him from spilling the beans! (Eg write a book). Charles just bought his silence. That’s all there is to it.