SO THEY FUCKING ARRESTED PRINCE ANDREW THIS MORNING

Not asked him to appear for a chat, not invited him to assist the police with their inquiries, they pulled up round front and back and just fucking nicked him

And now they're searching his house

and, safe guess, his hard drives

legit just saw an american asking if the king could pardon him

like what if my eldest cat pardons a kitten for shitting on the floor

@ifixcoinops it is hilarious when they think they don't have kings

@sinvega I don't think the americans know that the royals are our pets

Like as a country we have a little family of pet humans and it's not a sex thing

@ifixcoinops Yeah, that's not gonna happen.

Charles issued a statement saying the police have his full support. And concluded the statement with the line: "Meanwhile, my family and I will continue in our duty and service to you all"

It looks like when Charles says "my family" he does not include Andrew.

@Kyna I mean even if he wanted to he couldn't, he doesn't have the actual power to do so

@ifixcoinops holy shit it’s almost like countries other than the US have justice systems that work

@ifixcoinops maybe could, but almost certainly won’t after stripping Andrew of Royal titles.

@jpm nope, couldn't, doesn't have that power

@ifixcoinops
Come on Dan, we haven't had a good constitutional crisis for a few years... Let Charlie issue a Free Pardon (without ministerial advice) to remove whatever sentence the Nonce gets, so we can really have the UK legal system tie itself into knots working out how to square that circle.

@iMeddles unstoppbale force of "Nobody REALLY knows how much power the monarch has" meet immovable abject of Tradition Etc, it'd be a good rubberneck carcrash for sure