King Charles III After Andrew Arrest: ‘The Law Must Take Its Course’

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King Charles III After Andrew Arrest: 'The Law Must Take Its Course'

The King has said he is supporting the police investigation into his brother, a clear indication there should be no favour shown.

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King Charles III has said he is supporting the police investigation into his brother, Andrew, insisting “the law must take its course”, a clear indication there should be no favour shown.

The United Kingdom is a country where even the most senior Royals can’t escape the law, it was shown on Thursday, after the brother of the King was arrested on suspicion of “misconduct in public office”. The arrest relates to emails containing privileged government information he is alleged to have sent disgraced and deceased paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein over 15 years ago while Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formally known as Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, while he served the British government as a trade envoy.

Although no misdeeds by Andrew regarding this alleged sharing of secrets or alleged involvement with young women procured by Epstein have yet been proven in a court of law, the King already moved to strip Andrew of his Royal position and titles last year. On Thursday, after the arrest, the King continued to signal support for the legal process, and stated that he would be cooperating with the authorities who, after all, operate in his name as head of state.

 

[Margery]

King Charles III has said he is supporting the police investigation into his brother, Andrew, insisting “the law must take its course”, a clear indication there should be no favour shown.

Good for him. His brother Andrew is a very nasty man who used his influence with their late mother the Queen to evade justice all thru this mess. I'm glad Charles is dealing with it properly. Andrew was the Queen's favourite child, he was spoiled rotten and he capitalized on that relationship. Charles is doing the right thing both as King and as a family member of someone who needs a legal investigation of any criminal behaviour in this case.

 

[Kaatje]

Good for him.

I agree it's good that the rot is exposed, but how much of this is sincere and how much is hypocracy?
Charles has his own rot, that he keeps firmly under the blanket.
And why, if he is sincere, didn't he expose Andrew earlier? They knew. Even Elizabeth knew.

 

[TCC]

I agree it's good that the rot is exposed, but how much of this is sincere and how much is hypocracy?
Charles has his own rot, that he keeps firmly under the blanket.
And why, if he is sincere, didn't he expose Andrew earlier? They knew. Even Elizabeth knew.

From what i understand the royal family likely has skeletons in their closet way beyond an Epstein fiasco.

 

[Andy C]

In this day and age, why is a monarchy still allowed? The approval rate was high decades ago, now it hovers between 50-55 percent.

Perhaps the time is close for a referendum to abolish the monarchy.

 

[mattfivefour]

For traditional Brits, it is a symbol of Britain's once great heyday. It pictures a glorious part that they think keeps their country significant. In reality, though, especially among Muslims and Hindus who are likely close to being the majority there now, I doubt that they give two serious hoots for the royals and all that is associated with that institution, except as a hook for tourists and their income. But I'm sure that @lismore can offer us a better view.

 

[Andy C]

For traditional Brits, it is a symbol of Britain's once great heyday. It pictures a glorious part that they think keeps their country significant. In reality, though, especially among Muslims and Hindus who are likely close to being the majority there now, I doubt that they give two serious hoots for the royals and all that is associated with that institution, except as a hook for tourists and their income. But I'm sure that @lismore can offer us a better view.

I like the joke decades ago when Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister, where a widely published comic has Thatcher telling the Queen “I’ll run the country, you run the parties”.

 

[Margery]

In this day and age, why is a monarchy still allowed? The approval rate was high decades ago, now it hovers between 50-55 percent.

Perhaps the time is close for a referendum to abolish the monarchy.

they have a function as part of the way our democracy works both in Canada and in Britain. The Crown (either the King or the Governor General) and the House of Lords (Britain) or Senate (Canada- unelected, appointed for life) function as a fall back system to ensure continuity during elections, but also as a second house in which parliamentary changes are debated before becoming part of the framework of laws.

This isn't well understood but it helps counterbalance some of the problems with a raw basic democracy.

You also have 2 houses (Senate and Congress) and your Constitution rests over all kind of like a monarch only in your case it is a document. You run it like a Republic, not an actual democracy. But it's a Constitutional Republic. That essentially provides the same checks and balances that a democracy with 2 houses and a monarch who doesn't have supreme rule. Both seek to counterbalance the problems with a basic fundamental democracy.

The reason that what King Charles did was important was to restore the concept of the Law above the King which is a British democratic principle in action. That goes back to the Magna Carta in which the King was no longer considered above the Law, but was under the same law that governed the land.

The monarchs who ruled above the law were overthrown in the Revolutions, from the French Rev, to the Russian one.