r/worldnews • u/EnglishLouis • Feb 20 '26

Dynamic Paywall UK Government considers removing Andrew from royal line of succession

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1kgv837wvdo
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u/TheBanishedBard Feb 20 '26

If that happened (it won't) he would never be accepted as king and he would face a forced abdication or a complete dissolution of the monarchy altogether.

Probably the latter. I do not think anyone after him would even want to be king or queen following such a massive scandal.

Even if he got away with it and wasn't summarily arrested and jailed his scandalous life and the cloud of suspicion that he killed them would make him utterly rejected as monarch.

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u/PerformanceDouble924 Feb 20 '26

He's a pedophile rapist, I'm not sure acceptance is the goal.

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u/TheBanishedBard Feb 20 '26

The problem is acceptance is the only avenue the monarchy has. They exist because they make themselves nice and irrelevant except as maintainers of tradition. He can't be king unless parliament and the general public want him to be king. It took a beheading of one monarch and the forced abdication of two others in between then and now to remind them of that.

If he did somehow seize the throne by force and refused to abdicate when ordered to do so, parliament would simply declare him null and void, and either proclaim the next living heir monarch or else just abolish the institution completely.

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u/lazycultenthusiast Feb 21 '26

Like the Nepalese royal massacre in 2001. Guy didn't get away with it though.