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Andrew returning to public life

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grannydarkhair Sun 12-Jun-22 20:36:19

What a surprise NOT! I assume they’re hoping that people will be so buoyed up by the Jubilee celebrations that no-one will object.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/palace-to-support-andrew-in-rebuilding-his-life-as-poison-prince-makes-surprise-return-to-public-duty-r6jskx9b3

Blossoming Sun 12-Jun-22 20:49:52

Did anyone really think he’d quietly fade into the background?

SueDonim Sun 12-Jun-22 20:52:06

In his dreams, I hope. hmm

Floradora9 Sun 12-Jun-22 21:06:01

I read somewhere he might start again in Scotland . No thanks England can keep him.

LauraNorderr Sun 12-Jun-22 21:24:32

Not a wise move in my opinion.

Zoejory Sun 12-Jun-22 21:26:04

Can't see this happening.

Urmstongran Sun 12-Jun-22 21:32:30

I feel sorry for you up there in Scotland. What on earth have you done to deserve this? He’s obviously trying to get something ‘sorted’ before Charles ascends to the throne. His options will be limited then. He’s supposedly the Queen’s favourite child. She helped bail him out. I daresay she wants to see him set on a steady path while she can.

Grandmadinosaur Sun 12-Jun-22 21:32:33

I really wish he would though Blossoming

Georgesgran Sun 12-Jun-22 21:33:26

If this is true, someone has badly judged the public sentiment regarding PA.

Urmstongran Sun 12-Jun-22 21:48:38

From the Telegraph:

“Exclusive:
Prince Andrew wants royal status ‘reinstated, recognised and respected’
The Duke of York is also believed to have asked the Queen for his most coveted title back, the colonelcy of the Grenadier Guards”

He doesn’t read the room well does he?
Or he does but it doesn’t bother him.
?

Niobe Sun 12-Jun-22 22:05:11

After the Sussexes were booed at St Paul’s Cathederal does he really imagine that he can return to royal duties? Perhaps a move to Montecito would be advisable.

MissAdventure Sun 12-Jun-22 22:12:28

If the royal family want to do something,they do.
It really is,of no consequence to them what the public think.

Charleygirl5 Sun 12-Jun-22 22:25:19

Allegedly he owes £1.6 million. To get his name associated with that out of the newspapers the queen will have to open her purse yet again.

Has he not learned anything?

BigBertha1 Sun 12-Jun-22 22:31:14

'To err is human to forgive divine'. I learnt that saying as a child.

Joseanne Sun 12-Jun-22 22:42:08

I assume this has all to do with his upcoming appearance at the Garter ceremony. I remember being told in St. George's Chapel that a Knight of the Garter could only be removed if found guilty of treason or heresy. So I guess he thinks he can worm his way back starting here. What is he thinking? Or not?

pieinthesky Sun 12-Jun-22 22:50:16

Oh dear! Another prominent man who thinks he can do just as he likes with no real consequences and thinks we will all forgive and forget. Yet another example of the arrogance and self entitlement that seems to exist in people of a “certain class”. Hopefully the Queen will wear her Monarch’s and not her Mother’s head when she receives his request. His copybook has been well and truly blotted and no coming back!

Callistemon21 Sun 12-Jun-22 23:18:49

Urmstongran

From the Telegraph:

“Exclusive:
Prince Andrew wants royal status ‘reinstated, recognised and respected’
The Duke of York is also believed to have asked the Queen for his most coveted title back, the colonelcy of the Grenadier Guards”

He doesn’t read the room well does he?
Or he does but it doesn’t bother him.
?

As my friend used to say to her small children:

"Wants can't always have"

I think it's time that was pointed out t him.

Niobe Mon 13-Jun-22 05:21:27

Just read that Andrew has pulled out of the Garter Ceremony because Prince Charles and Prince William have petitioned the Queen. They fear that he will be booed.

grannydarkhair Mon 13-Jun-22 05:37:37

Niobe That’s excellent news. Just read that he is “bullish and confident” that he will return to public duties. He really does have his head up his a…, doesn’t he?

Whitewavemark2 Mon 13-Jun-22 06:47:06

What is it these men that the U.K. keeps producing.

An immoral PM who doesn’t give a fig, or only to the extent it affects what he wants and expects to do in life, and an immoral member of the RF also having no care either for public opinion or the hurt he causes, who also doesn’t give a fig.

We need some sort of school they need to be sent to to be taught how to behave.

Borstal?

Joseanne Mon 13-Jun-22 07:01:54

We need some sort of school they need to be sent to to be taught how to behave.
I agree Whitewavemark2, but before we have the usual comments on here that it was the schools they attended that made them this way, I would say they must have been born inherently corrupt, arrogant and pretty evil.

Whitewavemark2 Mon 13-Jun-22 07:10:40

Joseanne

^We need some sort of school they need to be sent to to be taught how to behave.^
I agree Whitewavemark2, but before we have the usual comments on here that it was the schools they attended that made them this way, I would say they must have been born inherently corrupt, arrogant and pretty evil.

Yes they both have character defects which could be described as personality disorders, but I do think that the system produces entitled individuals. We see it so often.

Grandma70s Mon 13-Jun-22 07:13:36

Oh, come off it. PA may be foolish and not very bright, but he isn’t evil.

BlueBalou Mon 13-Jun-22 07:18:45

His supreme arrogance and sense of privilege is astonishing isn’t it? He simply thinks that he can waltz around doing nothing constructive but pleasing himself and expecting admiration and thanks.
Quite honestly he makes me despair at the lack of insight he possesses.
Hideous individual.

Joseanne Mon 13-Jun-22 07:22:37

Perhaps that was too strong a word Grandma70s but the dictionary definition of evil is "profoundly immoral and wicked." The first adjective certainly fits. My point was that schools do not make pupils bad which is what has been said so many times.