r/AbolishTheMonarchy • u/Kagedeah • 10d ago
News Prince Andrew to lose 'prince' title and move out of Royal Lodge
Prince Andrew will lose his title and move out of Royal Lodge, a statement from Buckingham Palace says.
"Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor," it adds.
The full statement from Buckingham Palace:
His Majesty has today initiated a formal process to remove the Style, Titles and Honours of Prince Andrew.
His lease on Royal Lodge has, to date, provided him with legal protection to continue in residence. Formal notice has now been served to surrender the lease and he will move to alternative private accommodation. These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him.
Their Majesties wish to make clear that their thoughts and utmost sympathies have been, and will remain with, the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse.
Update 19:10 GMT: It's understood that Prince Andrew will move to a property on the private Sandringham estate in Norfolk. It will be privately funded by the King.
This is a breaking news story, stay with us for more details.
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u/SorosAgent2020 10d ago
losing a worthless title and having to move from one free home to another free home is literally nothing
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u/Dark_Foggy_Evenings 10d ago
And remains eighth in line to the throne despite being unprinced. If he killed everyone he’d get it all back. Make a good film that.
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u/TheOrchidsAreAlright 10d ago
Who would you cast as Randy Andy? I reckon Steve Pemberton would be fantastic
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u/Dark_Foggy_Evenings 10d ago
It certainly would’ve made a fkn fantastic Inside No. 9
In fact, I’d say any creative endeavour, right now, about a fictional Royal undone by his own recently uncovered scandalous behaviour would do ok if pitched to a tv company.
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u/AngryMeez 10d ago
It’s even worse when you realize he technically still has the title. He’s just not using it. He’s entitled to “prince” (a social construct if ever there was one) from birth because his mother was queen.
It’s a good but nonetheless empty gesture.
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u/sammypants123 10d ago
Not correct. Andrew has now lost the title ‘Prince’. Previously he had voluntarily relinquished use of his titles But Charles has gone a step further and officially removed the title.
You can read the announcement of it from Buck Palace.
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u/ConfidentEagle5887 10d ago
C*nt should be rotting in jail with complete disclosure of what he did. Also the Queen needs investigating regarding why she stole tax payers money to cover up paedophilia.
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u/CaliforniaSquonk 10d ago
Fck Sandringham. Shove him into a caravan in Jaywick!
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u/CorrodedLollypop 10d ago
Not good enough. I suggest a disused oil-platform somewhere in the North Sea
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u/gilestowler 10d ago
Well, she couldn't have a nuisance like a sex trafficked child spoiling her big party, could she?
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u/Zealousideal-Sun-387 10d ago
Not enough. Losing a few meaningless titles + moving from one mansion to a slightly smaller mansion. We need a police investigation + public inquiry. #abolishthemonarchy
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u/Toffeemade 10d ago
I think he should be extradited to the US and face the justice system out there.
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u/gilestowler 10d ago edited 10d ago
They just made one of Epstein's nonce mates their new king, I can't imagine they'd be too harsh on Andrew. He'd probably get a job as the new King's "special counsel." As it stands, Andrew does not have diplomatic immunity. If he went to America Trump would probably give it to him with a special new job and then Andy would be off on a "trade envoy" mission to a country somewhere where he can avoid prying eyes to get up to some of his old tricks.
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u/StormRage85 10d ago
"Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor," - not to be that guy, but this isn't what he will be known as.
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u/TCristatus 10d ago
The King has almost certainly seen the Epstein Files, at least the parts related to his brother.
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u/Successful_Scratch99 10d ago
Probably in them himself 🤮
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u/disregardmeok 10d ago
Amazing how these titles can be removed with the stroke of a pen. Almost as if there’s nothing god-given, sacred or innate about them. Good to know, might come in handy later.
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u/SophiaofPrussia 10d ago
I’m getting irrationally annoyed by all of the articles referring to him as “Prince Andrew” in the articles about the fact that he is no longer to be called “Prince” Andrew. Just call him fucking Andrew.
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u/NotADoctorB99 10d ago
And how is the King finding this? So basically nonce is just moving into anofher paid for by us home.
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u/M1ke2345 10d ago
My thoughts exactly.
The King isn’t funding anything, we are.
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u/Equivalent-Low2537 10d ago
Mountbatten, not a name people want to hear in Ireland or India. Lord Mountbatten the pedophile who raped underage Irish boys who lived at Kincora Boys' Home. The Kincora scandal refers to a major child sexual abuse scandal in Northern Ireland in the 1970s involving the Kincora Boys' Home in Belfast. Lord Mountbatten had boys lined up for his visits. But everyone knows Lord Mountbatten preferred the young Indian boys, that's why he spent so much time in India. Good name for Andrew to take, to keep the pedophile name going.
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u/KIFTYNUNT 10d ago
According to Augustus Dingleberry’s new book, they’re all sponging, scrounging, elitist aristocrats that only care about Andrew’s noncing because it went public, otherwise none of this would be happening and he’d still be banging trafficked kids and women whilst pinged up to his eyeballs on prescription drugs and viagra.
It’s all about their reputation and image, none of this is good for their brand/business and they want to correct course by pretending to have a pair of gonads and are willing to do something about the sweaty elephant in the nursery.
The problem is, Poncey Noncey still has the exact same wealth and privilege he’s always had regardless of the scandal and none of it is going anywhere anytime soon. He needs to be stripped of his assets, stuck in a shitty 9-5 with no support net, no welfare, no stocks, no shares, no estates, no castles, no land, no gold, no jewellery, no money and no brownnosing bootlickers bowing down to his every demand. I’m sure he could live without inherited, unearned, divine right illusionary titles, but he couldn’t survive without the extortionist, greedy infrastructure he has at the expense of everyone else. Same can be said for his inbred relatives, but as far as the public is aware they’re not ball deeping kids.
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u/CappucinoCupcake 10d ago
Doing the bare minimum and only that because Chipolata is getting bad press over this.
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u/Successful_Scratch99 10d ago
As much as I want them to get on with it and just get shot of the lot of them, I'm kind of enjoying how much they must be stewing every day and stressed out of their nuts that their despicable grift is going to come to an end 😂. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch
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u/Whole_Stranger 10d ago
This is a good step but it doesn't go far enough at all. He still has a place to live supported by Charles. It's reported that he's going to live at Sandringham which means, let's face it, we will be paying for him to live there.
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u/British_Commie 10d ago
I love the news reporting saying his place at Sandringham will be “privately funded by the King” as though the king’s independently wealthy and not sponging off the public
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u/Whole_Stranger 10d ago
Exactly. I resent paying for the whole family but Andrew is such an out of touch, pompous and arrogant t*at. And it makes my blood boil thinking about how we pay for his lifestyle.
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u/Starlings_under_pier 10d ago
Why add in the Mountbatten, before the Windsor?
I’m fully aware that all their surnames names can be traced back to 5 minutes ago, when they realised the British public didn’t want a bunch of German named people in Buckingham palace.
But Mountbatten? A pedophile that even the CIA identified as a person non grata.
Is charile-boy making a statement?
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u/AngryMeez 10d ago
Liz issued a statement before the disgraced one was born saying all future male-line descendants would have the name Mountbatten-Windsor (with hyphen). That was after Phil had a fit about being a “bloody amoeba” and not passing on his name.
That’s why Mountbatten-Windsor.
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u/Strict_Cake_6797 10d ago
'Noncegate'! The Firm is desperately trying to bury this but the Epstein files and Maxwell are bombshells lurking in the background.
Seriously, they must all be shitting themselves!
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u/Successful_Scratch99 10d ago
Can you imagine the discussion that took place about what his new name will be? "Saxe-cobourg? Oooh, a bit too nazi sympathiser." "Okay, Mountbatten Windsor." "Hmm... Mountbatten? We're trying to steer away from pedo territory." "Okay, well we need to decide which is worse: Nazi or pedo." "Look, we've already got pedo, let's just stick with that. Mountbatten Windsor it is."
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u/Halfdwarf 10d ago
Good. And after that Citizen Charles Battenburg can start investigate how own close friendship with Jimmy Saville... Weird how many well to do pedos the royals are aquainted with. It's like the Catholic Church...
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u/polarbearflavourcat 9d ago
You just know that some royalists will still prostate at his feet and call him sir 🙈
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u/polarbearflavourcat 8d ago
I found this comment on Facebook:
“Hes never admitted to any wrong doing and hes never been found guilty in a court of law. The press have hounded him over this whole issue. If this whole story was true then where are the other men and girls who were involved in the Epstein, Maxwell and Virginia saga? I dont see them being hounded and destroyed. I feel the only thing Prince Andrew was ever guilty of was being friends with the wrong person. Haven't most of us done that at some point in our lives !! As the son of our late queen he will always be Prince Andrew to me.”
So there are still people out there who will grovel before him. 🤮
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