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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

  • thehatfox@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    As a British person that’s something I thought I’d never see.

    Arrested on his birthday too.

    • Nighed@feddit.uk
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      4 days ago

      The late queen’s protection of him was a blemish on her record. I’m happy the king has cut him loose to face consequences… I wonder if they asked him before the arrest…

      • MisterFrog@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        As a one of her foreign subjects. May I say god save the Queen, because nothing will save the Governor General.

        Fuck the queen, fuck the monarchy.

      • 3abas@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        And what a record it was! Empire’s torture, internment and state killings, racist borders and racist policing, catastrophic wars sold on certainty they didn’t have, colonialism and ethnic cleansing and genocides, a little bit of family racism drama as a cherry on top, and a strong propaganda machine to sell her as a sweet old woman without much power and to ensure people still defend her and worship her.

        Her record was too tarnished to blemish.

    • fiat_lux@lemmy.worldOP
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      4 days ago

      I’m not British but I’m also very surprised. I can’t help but wonder if they would have dared had he still had his title?

      on his birthday too.

      The cops took the phrase “the icing on the cake” literally, and I think it was an excellent choice.

    • BrightCandle@lemmy.world
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      Got to have a couple of examples of the rich and powerful going away for their crimes so the plebs don’t realise how stacked against them the system really is.