Oh, the Grand Old Duke of York
He’s thick as two short planks
And now his Bro’ Says
“Off you go!”
And stripped him of his ranks.
I WONDER if there is a single person in Britain sad to see Prince Andrew stripped of his titles and effectively booted out of the Royal Family?
Apart from Andrew himself, of course. Oh — and that grasping ginger-mopped ex of his who depends upon the royal brand to fund her extravagant lifestyle.
The end was marked by more lies from the Prince, who seems unable to open his royal gob without saying something really, really stupid — or telling a porkie.
Following his meeting with a VERY unimpressed King Charles, Andrew wrote that he was giving up all of his titles because: “the continued accusations about me distract from the work of His Majesty and the Royal Family.”
Yeah right. Distractions indeed. He’s lucky he’s not in Pentonville sharing a cell with some Albanian psychopath. He is still not clear from legal action over his relationship with Virginia Giuffre.
Dense limpet
She claimed the Prince had sex with her three times. The trysts were organised by the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Both Epstein and Giuffre are dead — the latter from suicide.
But that doesn’t mean the trouble stops for Andrew. Now the Met Police are investigating if Andrew tried to get Royal Protection officers to investigate Giuffre.
So the Man Who Doesn’t Sweat will still be in the headlines. Misuse of police time is taken quite seriously.
Don’t feel too sorry for him, though. He still has the run of the vast, sprawling, Great Lodge at Windsor. Where he apparently spends all day playing video games.
Some 30 rooms, including seven bedrooms and a bunch of gardeners’ cottages. He has a lease on the thing until 2078 — but that comes from a time when he was part of the Royal Family. He no longer is, so as far as I am concerned, the lease no longer has any legal value. He should be evicted.
King Charles has tried, bless him. But Andrew clings on, like a particularly dense limpet. It would be interesting to know how this arrogant, privileged, halfwit affords the upkeep on the lodge. I think we should be told. Let’s have a little bit of transparency, huh?
Gawd alone knows where he gets his money from now the public t*t has been officially withdrawn. We know for a fact that his ex borrowed money from . . . yes, Jeffrey Epstein.
Anyway, Andrew can console himself with the fact that, technically, he still has a bunch of titles.
These include, but are not confined to, HRH, a Knight of the Garter, the highest order of British chivalry, and Earl of Inverness and Baron Killyleagh.
He’s promised not to use them, but probably still expects people to curtsy.
But where does all this leave the Royal Family and the King, who is still undergoing his weekly cancer treatments?
It has been a terrible century for the Windsors so far. Andrew has been a spectacularly awful sideshow, of course.
It has been a terrible century for the Windsors so far. Andrew has been a spectacularly awful sideshow, of course
But the family has also been seriously damaged by Prince Harry and his ghastly missus, Meghan. Dissing the royals at every opportunity they get.
Making stupid woke statements to anyone who will listen. Whining in documentaries which nobody in their right minds would pay to watch.
A pair of simpering, intellectually-challenged sleb-wannabes lacking even the slenderest vestige of self awareness.
Even the Americans are getting heartily sick of them. They are the very embodiment of unearned privilege.
You look at this parade of privileged, thick-as-mince nincompoops and wonder if we should have a Royal Family at all. It does seem a bit anachronistic in this day and age.
Unelected and unaccountable. None of them — except maybe Princess Anne — particularly bright. Living this gilded life-style through hereditary privilege.
The truth is King Charles and even more so, before him, Queen Elizabeth II, were able to charm and flatter foreign heads of state. And that sort of soft power matters
Countries which got shot of their monarchies years ago think we’re kind of mad. Yet despite the idiotic Andrew and the awful Harry and Meghan, the Royal Family is still a considerable asset to our country.
It’s one of the reasons so many foreign tourists visit London every year to take in the pomp and splendour from a bygone age. It is hard to defend constitutionally. But it WORKS practically.
If you have any doubt about that, just look at the delight on the face of Donald Trump when he is invited over for a state visit. Just listen to his speech when he was last here.
The truth is King Charles and even more so, before him, Queen Elizabeth II, were able to charm and flatter foreign heads of state. And that sort of soft power matters.
Why do you think we got such favourable trade deals from the USA? Do you think President Trump was charmed by Sir Keir Starmer and David Lammy?
The truth is, our Royal Family comes cheap at the price for the benefits we get in return.
The truth is, our Royal Family comes cheap at the price for the benefits we get in return.
It seems to be in fairly capable hands right now, although I’d prefer it if Anne was on the throne.
King Charles has been a dextrous and dutiful King.
In Prince William, the Prince of Wales, we have a successor lined up who has even less patience with the like of Andrew and Harry than does his dad.
One day, Wills will make a fine King. He’s not a genius, but you don’t need to be a genius to be King. Just to do your duty, to put the country first.
Our late Queen understood that perfectly — perhaps better than any monarch we have ever had.
It is those qualities of discipline, reserve and a sense of duty we need to see from the Royal Family now. Cast Andrew adrift and make sure we’re not paying for him. Do the same with Prince Harry.
In the modern world a Royal Family only works if it pulls its weight. When it stops doing that, we’d be best off rid of it.
IT’S not often you’ll get told to do this. But keep an eye on Thursday’s Caerphilly by-election to the Welsh Assembly.
You will see the almost total eclipse of the two major parties, Labour and Conservative.
Instead it will be a battle between Reform and Plaid Cymru.
People are sick to death of the two major parties – a kind of revolution is under way. And not many people have noticed it.
JUST got a new book through the post. It’s the latest from my old mate Piers Morgan.
It’s called Woke Is Dead and, as you might guess, it’s about how all the stupidities of wokeness seem to be in retreat.
Trouble is, I read it when I was watching Match Of The Day. And there were players out on the pitch, taking the knee. To the massed boos from the supporters.
Taking the knee was done in homage to the odious Black Lives Matter organisation.
A bunch of race grifters who made quite a bit of money from their protests about how all white people were racist.
So much so that in the States people joked the initials stood for Buy Larger Mansions.
We don’t want any of this servile, divisive cringing.
And huge credit to Leeds United’s Dominic Calvert-Lewin for having the independence of spirit to refuse to kneel.
Sir, you have my complete respect.
