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How William and Kate swung the axe on Andrew Mountbatten Windsor · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm clear, Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. Andrew Albert Christian Edward Mountbatten Windsor
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  Speaker 1: is no longer the Duke of York and now he's
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  Speaker 1: no longer a Prince of the United Kingdom either.
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  Speaker 2: This statement coming into us from Buckingham Palace, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to read to you exactly what this statement says.
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  Speaker 2: Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatton Windsor.
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  Speaker 2: His lease on Royal Lodge has to date provided him
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  Speaker 2: with legal protection to continue in residence. Formal notice has
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  Speaker 2: now been served to surrender the lease and he will
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  Speaker 2: move to alternative private accommodation. These censors are deemed necessary
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  Speaker 2: notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations
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  Speaker 2: against him. Their Majesties wish to make clear that their
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  Speaker 2: thoughts and utmost sympathies have been and will remain with
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  Speaker 2: the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew is now just another subject of his brother, King
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  Speaker 1: Charles the Third, and soon he'll be paying obeisance to
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  Speaker 1: his nephew, King William the Second, the man who's primarily
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  Speaker 1: responsible for kicking Andrew out of the royal family. It's
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  Speaker 1: William and his wife Catherine, the Princess of Wales, who
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  Speaker 1: wanted Andrew out of their faces. The Waleses are about
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  Speaker 1: to move to Forest Lodge, a big new home on
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  Speaker 1: the Windsor estate that's just a mile away from Royal Lodge,
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  Speaker 1: where Andrew and his ex wife Sarah Ferguson have been
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  Speaker 1: living for much of the past three decades, basically for
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  Speaker 1: free at the expense of the Crown estate. It was
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  Speaker 1: William who reportedly confronted Andrew's daughters Beatrice and Eugenie and
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  Speaker 1: told them they risked losing their titles as princess if
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  Speaker 1: they didn't bring their dad into line. If you're tempted
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  Speaker 1: to feel sorry for Andrew, well, sure, he hasn't been
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  Speaker 1: convicted of any crimes. He's always denied having any knowledge
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  Speaker 1: of teenage prostitution or sex trafficking at the hands of
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  Speaker 1: his close friend Jeffrey Epstein, who died in prison while
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  Speaker 1: awaiting trial. The famous photo of Andrew with his arm
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  Speaker 1: around the waist of seventeen year old Virginia Roberts Guffrey.
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  Speaker 1: He says that's a fake but he did pay Guphrey,
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  Speaker 1: who's now taken her own life, twelve million pounds that
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  Speaker 1: he got from his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth the iond.
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  Speaker 1: Queen Elizabeth didn't take decisive action on Andrew, her favorite son,
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  Speaker 1: but she did set the modern precedent for brutal dealing
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  Speaker 1: with a wayward royal sibling when she denied permission to
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  Speaker 1: her own younger sister, Princess Margaret, to marry the man
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  Speaker 1: she loved because he was a divorcee that broke Margaret's heart.
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  Speaker 1: This is movietone.
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  Speaker 2: Princess Margaret's personal message, issued from Clarence House, began with
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  Speaker 2: the words I would like it to be known that
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  Speaker 2: I have decided not to marry a group.
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  Speaker 1: Captain Peter Townsend, now Elizabeth's son Charles, has taken action
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  Speaker 1: on his younger sibling, and Williams demonstrated his own ruthlessness
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  Speaker 1: before with his younger sibling, Prince Harry. William participated in
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  Speaker 1: and maybe even led the royal family's tough moves on
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  Speaker 1: Harry and Meghan when the Duke and Duchess of Sussex
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  Speaker 1: said they wanted a half in, half out royal life
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  Speaker 1: and had a lot of complaints about the way the
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  Speaker 1: palace treated them. The family just froze them out.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, some members my family will never forgive me
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  Speaker 3: for writing a book. Of course, they will never forgive
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  Speaker 3: me for lots of things. I would love reconciliation with
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  Speaker 3: my family. You know, there's no point in continuing to
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  Speaker 3: fight anymore. Life is precious. I don't know how much
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  Speaker 3: longer my father has.
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  Speaker 1: William knows the monarchy can exist only with the good
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  Speaker 1: will of the British people, and he already thinking about
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  Speaker 1: his duty to hand the crown on to his son,
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  Speaker 1: Prince George. All that meant embarrassing Uncle Andrew had to
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  Speaker 1: go here. He is speaking to Eugene Levy in an
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  Speaker 1: episode of The Reluctant Traveler.
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  Speaker 4: I want to create a world in which my son
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  Speaker 4: is proud of what we do in a world and
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  Speaker 4: a job that actually does impact people's life for the better.
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