So Andrew has stepped down entirely, including giving up his Dukedom, it mean Fergie reverts to Sarah Ferguson but his daughters retain their titles.
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Good. It should have happened quite a while ago.
Oh, the grand ex Duke of York,
He had 10,000 girls…
Still a prince according to the linked article, and wouldn’t it be Mountbatten-Windsor in any case?
If only the King had a second son to take on the title traditionally associated with being the spare.
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Ironically it’s also an unlucky title with an almost traditional curse of the title either going immediately extinct due to no male heirs or being absorbed into the crown.
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I assume it’s now absorbed into the Crown until re-awarded?
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Depends what the letters patent say doesn’t it? He may have relinquished it in that he’s stopped using it, but does that actually remove the title?
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How does him stepping down affect me 
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The whole thing is quite daft, tbh.
He still remains a prince, he still holds the title of Duke of York - he’s just not going to use the title. There still has been no real consequence of note.
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Possibly an unpopular view, but as nothing has been proven wouldn’t it be entirely appropriate that there are no consequences of note? Purely from an ‘innocent until proven guilty’ point of view.
Of course the reputational damage caused by all the rumours about him would be dealt with on a negotiated basis. Unfortunately, it’s a no-win situation for the King as casting his own brother aside on the basis of unsubstantiated allegations isn’t a good look either.
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The issue is beyond him having any direct guilt for wrongdoing.
Part of the problem is Andrew continued to be directly associated with JE after the latter’s 2008 conviction and for years beyond what he claimed.
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So have certain UK politicians, having recently been UK Ambassador to the US.
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Yep and he’s had to resign as well, more lives than a bag full of cats Mandelson.
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Exactly, and it’s Mandelson with whom comparisons should be made (not Jimmy Saville and Fred West).
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Is this just whataboutism? That’s a separate issue.
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Did I miss the bit where she alleged that Mandelson had sex with her while she was a child sex slave and he paid her off £12M?
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Two men who have had influence, associating with a convicted paedophile, both who knew his history. What is whataboutism about that, pray tell.
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We don’t know as she is now deceased and what more could she have told, same as Epstein, about the situation. Maxwell is quietly keeping her mouth shut.
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