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Police say King Charles’s brother is in custody and officers are carrying out searches at addresses in Berkshire and Norfolk - read the police statement in full

  • arrow74@lemmy.zip
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    9 hours ago

    It’s the continual back and forth they’ve had for the last several centuries.

    They don’t want to lose more power or come off as weak, but they also don’t want to wield too much power and be removed.

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      7 hours ago

      Yeah. I think throwing his brother under the bus would probably earn the king a whole lot of goodwill with the public, whereas pardoning him would outrage people.

      Though not much came of Jimmy Saville, but Andrew’s not dead