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Much further than I thought
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I was expecting them to announce that he was going to leave Royal Lodge
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but I didn't expect the king to take that action at this stage
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So, you know, I see this as the most dramatic downfall of a royal
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since Edward VIII, really. And yet, I don't think it will end the questions about Prince Andrew
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Daphne Barrick seems to be suggesting she's got more emails yet to reveal
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I think legislators in the US particularly, but also over here, want further questions answered
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So it doesn't end it, but the King has drawn a very firm line under it
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as far as the royal family is concerned. Richard, what about the processes here
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because, I mean, when it was announced he wouldn't use his titles
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a few weeks ago, we were all sort of told, well, you can't just remove the dukedom
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and the prince title and everything else. You know, that's a sort of parliamentary issue
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and very, very complicated. It seems we got that slightly wrong if the king has decided he can start that process
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Well there a guy called David Torrance who works in parliament who produced a report on I think October the 20th that provided some very good background to this And his report did say that there were other means of removing the
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princely title. The dukedom actually is not being extinguished, as I understand it. It's
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just that the king has found another way of officially removing him from the role of
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as the peerage. So you could argue it achieves a similar effect, really
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I mean, one thing that the palace wasn't discussing last night, well, it really wasn't discussing much at all
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it put out a statement, and there was a bit of a background explanation provided
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but is, as far as I understand it, Andrew remains eighth in line to the throne
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He's still in line of succession. He's still a councillor of state who, in theory, could stand in for the king if the king was away or incapacitated
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The reality is that that's never going to happen. And I think if suddenly we were looking at Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor becoming our next king because of sudden deaths or whatever
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So Parliament would then have to legislate to ensure that he never became king
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So I guess in practice, he's out of the picture completely
