While Andrew initially announced he would no longer use his royal titles, there were further damaging allegations about his relationship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, prompting the King to formally remove his honours.

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    What about a conviction and prison sentence? “oh noooo, boohoo, no more titles, the inhumanity! The suffering, the horrors!”

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    We need to figure out what to call him now, I guess. Can’t call him Prince Andrew. How about “Handsy Andy, Duke of Diddleshire?”

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    For the crimes of sexual assault of minors I sentence you to be called MISTER Andrew Windsor! You must also downsize your nearly rent free free housing to a mere 5,000+ sqft cottage next to Windsor castle. It pains me to be so harsh to my own brother, but an example must be made. Let this be a warning for all pedophiles throughout the kingdom!

    – King Charles, maybe

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            Most kings who didn’t came to power through birth right did it it through crime and violence and made themselves king. Only with Trump people voted for it. What a boring dystopia we live in.

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        They have known about this for years and protected him. In this case, they probably did have the means to make sure he ended up in prison, and probably still do.

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          I read an article on this a while ago and I’m not sure what UK crimes he is known to have committed.

          Our age of consent is 16 so he didn’t sexually assault a minor. If he did what he did then in the present day then he’d have broken sex trafficking laws but those laws were weak or non existent at the time.

          Obviously, there’s a fair chance that he did commit a crime that we don’t know about and finding out about that would be made very difficult due to who he is.

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    When I read the “HRH” title abbreviation it reminded me of my first trip abroad.

    I am a Swede and in the early nineties me and my family decided to take a trip to the UK, we took the family car and dad drove to the ferry, this was a Swedish car, with Swedish plates, and a clear national identifying sticker on the back noting us as Swedes.

    As we drove around in the UK, we noted that a lot of cars seemed to flash their indicators at us, weird…

    It took a few days but then we realized that our registration plate said “HRH 123”, and we felt quite self conscious after that…

    Anyway that was my story, and I’d rather post about that than read more about the shithead this article concerns.

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      In my embellished mental image of this, you’re careening down the wrong side of the road, puzzled why everyone’s flashing their lights at you and honking, until one of you says, “Oh, it must be the number plate.”

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        Hehe, I was thinking about that as I wrote it…

        Here in Sweden, we normally make fun of Norwegians with stupid jokes, and we have one about a Norwegian guy traveling to the UK with his car.

        He is driving down the motorway in the UK, listening to the radio when he hears this:

        “This is an emergency alert, there is a car driving against the flow of traffic on the A1 just south of Newcastle…”

        The Norwegian blurts out (in Norwegian):

        “One? There are thousands”

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      Apparently this freaking creepo went to Thailand in the 2000s and demanded teens. And that’s on record by the like court Historian.

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    New titles include:

    • Prince Pedophile
    • The Royal Derrière
    • The Keeper of The Hooker
    • Guardian of The White Van
    • The Little Diddler That Could

    and many more.

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        Ok these are horrible crimes but is that real? If so do you have a source of any stories about him?

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          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Hooker

          The widespread belief that the slang term “hooker,” referring to a prostitute, originates from General Hooker’s surname due to illicit gatherings and insufficient military discipline at his headquarters near the Murder Bay district of Washington, DC, has persisted in popular culture.[26] Certain iterations of this legend suggest that the contingent of prostitutes who followed his division were pejoratively labeled as “General Hooker’s Army” or “Hooker’s Brigade.”[27] Nevertheless, historical evidence demonstrates that the term “hooker” appeared in published sources as early as 1845, predating General Hooker’s rise to public prominence.[28] Linguistic and historical scholarship instead points to the term’s likely derivation from the significant population of prostitutes in the Corlear’s Hook area of Manhattan during the early to mid-19th century, where the appellation “hooker” became commonplace.[29] While the enduring association between the general’s name and the term may have contributed to its broader popularization,[30] contemporary evidence indicates that an area in Washington, DC known for prostitution during the Civil War was colloquially identified as “Hooker’s Division”—a label later abbreviated to “The Division” during General Hooker’s tenure in the city following the First Battle of Bull Run, where he was tasked with defending the capital.[31] Consequently, the link between the term and General Hooker, though culturally persistent, is undermined by substantial historical documentation that favors alternative etymologies.