The real question is how that didn't happen automatically when he was stripped of his title.
this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2026
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Because the laws that give titles are different than the laws that include someone from the line of succession.
If I remember correctly, there are around 5,000 people in the line of succession, and most of them don't even know they're on it.
The fact that they think making andrew a simple peasent like the rest of us, is an appropriate punishment for raping children, either tells us a lot about how they see us regular people, or a lot about how much they care about children being raped.
You know that the government doesn't conduct criminal investigations?
Everything I've read about this says that the misconduct in question was sharing state secrets with Epstein.
The child raping doesn't appear to be concerning them.
Nevertheless, whistleblowers spend their whole life being hunted down by goverments for exposing state secrets that reveal crimes.
God damn. Comment hit hard. No notes. I just wish the people in the US realized that even the monarchs of Britain are being "punished" more than the equivalent rulers of our similar class structures that exist in modern day with just different names. Our "Epstein class" (capitalist class) have less punishment than modern day monarchs.
The punishment of the monarchs is to become a rich capitalist with no titles. The punishment of the capitalist is nothing.
I'm not from the UK or living there. So grain of salt and all... But I read this not so much as a punishment, but closing a loophole so he can never ever be in a position of royal power or benefits. And it would hold even if he wins in court.
If we in the US had closed some loopholes 2021-24, we would be at least 50% less fucked.
And maybe 90% less if we'd done it after Nixon.
It's not enough. But it's not nothing.
Different parts of the government. Charles has all but kicked him out of the royals themselves. This would just be finishing the job.
Neither group has any real say in prosecution etc. This is just an additional ceremonial "Fuck you for making us look bad!"
"They expect one of us in the wreckage, brother"
Won't that require changes on every single commonwealth monarchy? (The joys of of an archaic political system tied with the zombified remnants of a collapsed empire)
That could be a tricky legal question. The current law is that changes in the line of succession must be approved by all 15 Commonwealth realms. But this law was itself a regular statute passed by the Westminster parliament.
The principle of parliamentary supremacy demands that no parliament may bind the will of a future parliament. That is, could Westminster just override the 1931 statute when they pass this special "cut out Andrew" bill? There might not be a whole lot that says they can't.