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

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[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I'm sure the 40 or so manservants and the annual stipend from his brother would help ease his suffering. The poor guy.

[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 day ago

That’s not exile, that’s moving into the guest house.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 1 day ago (3 children)

“Exile” to a gigantic mansion on a sprawling estate, with a £100M annual stipend? Yeah, he’s really being punished. This is just a payoff from the crown, so he doesn’t go author some tell-all book that exposes the rest of the pedos. It’s hush money, plain and simple.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's no way he's getting 100M pounds a year in stipend, the King doesn't even have that kind of money privately accessible. King Charles has probably got a couple of billion dollars that he privately controls separately from the crown, but the vast majority of that is tied up in real estate and jewels, and while the real estate does generate some yearly income, it's on the order of tens of millions. The jewels generate no revenue.

Now, that being said, Andrew is probably going to get north of a million dollars a year, so it's not going to be anything like a pauper's life. However, it may come with strings attached that keep him from showing his face in public, so it's unlikely we'll see him jet-setting around the world with that money. Most of it will likely be spent on having help, a maid and a cook and butler so he never needs to actually do anything. His own private retirement home/jail.

[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

As punishment for his evil Andrew should be forced to eat all the jewels until he dies.

It'll either increase or decrease their value once they yank them out of him but it'll be fascinating to find out which.

I selflessly offer to take his punishment for him.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

that ties to others to EPSTEIN.

[–] flightyhobler@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Wasn't there a tower in London for this?

[–] MrSmiley@lemmy.zip 80 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

This is the estate, apparently a punishment.

It’s so private and remote, you can buy tickets to go see it.

https://sandringhamestate.co.uk/tickets/

[–] LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone 44 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What a cruel and inhumane punishment. That poor man won't even have his own stables there 😢

[–] blave@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And he’ll have to have his tea brought to him by the Second Footman!

Can you please put a content warning in your comment, it's just so devastating 😭

[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Does the ticket price include eggs to throw at the resident nonse?

[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] TeamAssimilation 2 points 1 day ago

Checks if you’re blood related to a decadent European aristocratic regime in the region.

No.

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago

What a dump

[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 73 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 45 points 2 days ago (1 children)

America has a dude just like that too! Except they voted for theirs

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Nonce Andrew would be a perfect candidate for Reform. He's got all the qualifications.

[–] mech@feddit.org 4 points 1 day 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.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day 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?

[–] redlemace@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

private nonce island, in his nonce castle.

[–] badbytes@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Exile, but no punishment. And another pedo gets off with a warning.

Internal exile, which is perhaps the most oxymoronic phrase possible

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So I take it is okay to be a pedo in the UK? Or Is It just royal family members?

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

The more famous a Brit is the higher the odds they are a transphobe who diddles kids. At which point their fanbase starts to find ways to explain it away.

[–] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

They should start referring to this guy as The Pedophile Formerly Known as Prince.

[–] yoyoyopo5@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] ChaosInstructor@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago

have you ever seen UK on a map? Of course it is on an island...

[–] Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

So no prison?

I'm so glad I'm not in that shit hole dumpster fire of a country.