The Queen has stripped prince Andrew of his title and military titles, and all his patronages..

ohioboy said:
Emily Dickinson's nephew was Edward (Ned) Dickinson, that's how I recognized who he meant.
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prince Edward has always been Edward.... I wouldn't have a clue what they intend doing with the Duke of York title... I suspect it will all depend on the outcome of the Lawsuit against him... apparently all of these ptronages and titles have been removed to allow him to appear in court as a common man ...well as common as they can make a Prince.. so if he wins he'll probably get them all back...
 

Is there going to be a monarchy and a "Royal Family" after this is all over? Or will they just give up on it as an idea whose time has passed? Inquiring minds want to know.
 
hollydolly said:
Prince Andrew was today stripped of his military titles, royal patronages and HRH honorific by the Queen, who said he will have to face his sexual assault lawsuit as a 'private citizen'.
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What will happen if he is found not guilty, or the charges are somehow shown to be false?

Will he get all this back with an apology?

Have to admit I do think he is guilty, like a lot of people. However like most of those folks I have no evidentiary basis for my beliefs...
 
chic said:
Edward. Her youngest son. Someone will have to be Duke of York now won't they? I though the royal family called him Ned. Please forgive the ugly American who knows nothing of royalty.

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Apparently.. and I've just found this out tonight... PA is not to lose the title of the Duke of York even tho' he won't any longer be addressed as HRH...
 
Lavinia said:
Oh yes, those girls lived the high life and no doubt enjoyed every moment!. I have no sympathy whatsoever with them.
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Assuming you have never been trafficked for sex? Your insensitive comment is not surprising, considering your negative comments about the US.

"What worries me is that so many British people believe that it is true and do their utmost to copy America in everything.....which is why our country is now on a downward slope to the gutter."

https://www.seniorforums.com/thread...ica-is-better-than-the-uk.67929/#post-1980779

And by the way, as someone who lives in the US...

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JimBob1952 said:
Is there going to be a monarchy and a "Royal Family" after this is all over? Or will they just give up on it as an idea whose time has passed? Inquiring minds want to know.
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The only way that would ever happen is by a major uprising of the British people. It would probably take another revolution. I doubt very much that that will happen any time in the foreseeable future, unless the royal behavior is so bad that it just can't be tolerated any longer. The Queen seems to manage to keep things on an even keel, no matter what.
 
If the Royal kids keep picking Middle Class as partners rather than each other pretty soon, there will be so much mixture that where is the famed Royal Blood? When there are no REAL Royals left, it will end, or so thinkest I.
 
Sunny said:
The only way that would ever happen is by a major uprising of the British people. It would probably take another revolution. I doubt very much that that will happen any time in the foreseeable future, unless the royal behavior is so bad that it just can't be tolerated any longer. The Queen seems to manage to keep things on an even keel, no matter what.
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Yes, but she's almost a hundred years old. The prospects after her are pretty bleak. Anyway, it's not my tax dollars that they are squandering.
 
IMO the unrelenting waves of immigrants will eventually destroy the monarchy simply because it holds no meaning for them.

“Something as curious as the monarchy won’t survive unless you take account of people’s attitudes. After all, if people don’t want it, they won’t have it.” - Prince Charles
 
Pepper said:
If the Royal kids keep picking Middle Class as partners rather than each other pretty soon, there will be so much mixture that where is the famed Royal Blood? When there are no REAL Royals left, it will end, or so thinkest I.
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I think it's common knowledge that Prince Phillip and the Queen had the same royal blood. They were cousins. Maybe some of the current royals prefer more distance to avoid getting too close to inbreeding.
 
Nosy Bee-54 said:
I think it's common knowledge that Prince Phillip and the Queen had the same royal blood. They were cousins. Maybe some of the current royals prefer more distance to avoid getting too close to inbreeding.
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well they were pretty distant cousins... they were 3rd cousins technically...


Prince Philip and the Queen are in fact related and both direct relatives of Queen Victoria. Prince Philip was born on the Greek Island of Corfu in 1921 as Philippos Schleswig-Holstein Sonderburg-Glucksburg, according to Reuters. He is the fifth child and the only son of Prince Andrew of Greece and Princess Alice of Battenberg, who was of British descent, according to the British royal family’s website.


According to Town & Country, Princess Alice, Prince Philip’s mother, is the direct relative of Queen Victoria. Princess Alice was born in 1885 in the presence of her great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, at Windsor Castle, where Philip also died. That makes Philip Queen Victoria’s great-great-grandson.


While Philip is related to Queen Victoria on his maternal side, Queen Elizabeth II is related to Queen Victoria on her paternal side. Queen Elizabeth II and her sister Princess Margaret’s father is King George VI, who was the great-grandson of Queen Victoria. This makes Queen Elizabeth II the great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Philip’s third cousin.


Though Prince Philip and the Queen were third cousins, they didn’t meet through shared family. Instead, the Queen (who was then known as Princess Elizabeth) and Philip met at the wedding of Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark and Prince George, Duke of Kent, in 1934. The Queen was 8 at the time, while
 
Nosy Bee-54 said:
I think it's common knowledge that Prince Phillip and the Queen had the same royal blood. They were cousins. Maybe some of the current royals prefer more distance to avoid getting too close to inbreeding.
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Fine. Then they have no real relation to the Crown and isn't that what it's all about? Why should the shopkeeper's daughter be Queen? Or son be king? What connection do they have to the throne?
 
All this talk about royalty inspired me to watch The Queen, for the second time. It's on HBO. After Diana's death, the Queen's coldness and refusal to express sympathy, not even to hang a flag at half-staff (mainly because Prince Philip nearly had a fit at the mere suggestion), all of that nearly finished off the monarchy. Of course, this was just a movie, and may have not been accurate.

But at the end, she comes around, attends the memorial service, and delivers a moving address to the crowd. How many of us would even be that nice to an ex-daughter-in-law? If that version of what happened was true, Her Majesty is certainly able to see the writing on the wall.
 
Pepper said:
Fine. Then they have no real relation to the Crown and isn't that what it's all about? Why should the shopkeeper's daughter be Queen? Or son be king? What connection do they have to the throne?
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well , as it turns out the Airline Cabin crew daughter is going to be Queen soon.. Catherine Middleton ( Duchess of Cambridge, William's wife) is straight from a working class family...
 

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