P.J. Denyer
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested...
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JayUtah
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In that case I wouldn't recommend that he request Trial of Seven. There might not be six other people who like him well enough.
Palace would not oppose move to remove Andrew from succession
Police continue searches at Mountbatten-Windsor’s former Windsor home after arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office
www.theguardian.com
It is clearly just virtue signalling. Even worse it is virtue signalling about someone who is legally innocent. In reality he will never become King, so it is just not an issue, other than bullying.
The interviewee is a convicted fraudster so may not be a reliable witness.
Seems odd that they can strip him of his titles but that didn't also remove him from the line of succession. Guess I'm getting Stockholm Syndrome from reading the Trump thread with all his dictatorial "decrees" made in one fell swoop.
arthwollipot
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Monarchy is weird.
theprestige
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Titles are conferred by the monarchy. Succession is ratified by parliament. It's not that weird, and contra @Orphia Nay, not that odd, either.
junkshop
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That system doesn't seem weird to you?
theprestige
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Nope. You live among human beings. We do all kinds of things, set up all kinds of systems. You say weird, I say misanthropy.
arthwollipot
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Yeah, but the British monarchy isn't just misanthropic. It's weird. It always has been.
theprestige
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You misunderstand. I meant that saying the British monarchy is weird is a misanthropic take. It denotes a reflexive hatred for humanity-as-is. It's right up there with the narcissistic, delusions-of-superiority, "these people vote".
arthwollipot
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Well, there's humans, and there's humans. Some humans are weirder than others.
theprestige
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Like I said: "misanthropic take" and "narcissistic, delusions-of-superiority".
arthwollipot
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Hey! Some of my best friends are weird!
A lot of them, actually.
But none of them are royalty.
junkshop
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Weird ≠ necessarily bad. It is not a value judgement, it is a recognition that a thing is unusual, strange, odd, or otherwise remarkable.
ETA: Do you not think that a system that has a hereditary monarch as head of state, who is subservient to a partially elected government, that swears allegiance to the monarch that they are, supposedly, superior to (in terms of sovereign authority) and yet has to have all their decisions signed off by, is weird?
I do, and that's the system I have lived under for my entire life. I understand that it was a compromise to avoid both another civil war, and a repeat of the absolute balls-up that was our first attempt at being a republic, but it's still weird. Really ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ weird.
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arthwollipot
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I think also @theprestige is conflating the institution of the monarchy being weird and the people who comprise the monarchy being weird. I was specifically referring to the former, though in some cases the latter is also true.
Me, I think it's OK to feel superior to a pedophile, but maybe that's just me.
smartcooky
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Its called a Constitutional Monarchy, and while some might call it weird, it is far from unique. Japan, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, Andorra, Luxembourg, Monaco, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Jordan, Morocco and Bhutan all have Constitutional Monarchies that operate on a similar basis.