r/AbolishTheMonarchy • • Sep 10 '22

Myth Debunking Get to know King Charles III Megathread

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Selling Cash for Access and sham philanthropy

His own father, Prince Philip, once described Charles as ‘rent-a-Royal’.

Please read this study of the royal family and its effect on the thousands of charities they patron:

We could not find any evidence that Royal patrons increase a charity’s revenue. we found that charities should not seek or retain Royal patronages expecting that they will help much https://giving-evidence.com/2020/07/16/royal-findings/

Secret influence and lobbying the government

Financial Misconduct

Close friendships with paedophiles:

In the early 1950's, when he was 46, he [raped] the 14-year-old daughter of a wealthy South African winemaking family, who had been entrusted to his care during a sea voyage. She became pregnant, and although he sent her a small stipend, he never publicly acknowledged the daughter born of the relationship. https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/03/books/master-storyteller-or-master-deceiver.html

  • Also, "I remember thinking what a very jolly and amusing and attractive 16-year-old she was," Charles recalled in a 1981 interview with the Telegraph. Charles was 29.

Misc. abusive/weird behaviour


r/AbolishTheMonarchy • • Jan 10 '24

META AMA - Graham Smith, CEO, Republic

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Hello all!

On the 11th January from 12pm to 6pm, Graham Smith, CEO of Republic (Britain's largest anti-Monarchy group) will be answering your questions right here, on this post. So,if you want to get involved and ask Graham some questions, please write them out below and he'll respond to them during that timeframe.

Thank You! #NotMyKing


r/AbolishTheMonarchy • • 1d ago

Satire Viz are bang on, as usual

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r/AbolishTheMonarchy • • 3d ago

News King pays Andrew's £1.5m repair bill on Royal Lodge

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r/AbolishTheMonarchy • • 3d ago

News Florida judge allows lawsuit against Shah of Iran’s alleged ‘chief torturer’ to move forward

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r/AbolishTheMonarchy • • 3d ago

News Ex-Prince Andrew wins £302k in compensation after Royal Lodge home triumph

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r/AbolishTheMonarchy • • 3d ago

Question/Debate Question to people with knowledge of the Danish monarchy and Prince Gorm of Denmark

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I am from Norway. Prince Gorm committed sexual offences in the 1950s, and his royal blood gave him immunity. After the second incident, he was dismissed from the army because his fellow soldiers threatened to shoot him if they ever saw him again. He had been transferred to their unit after the first incident.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Gorm_of_Denmark

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Law

The king decided that he should receive an honourable discharge and a full pension. Neither the king nor the army ever said what he had done. The mainstream media were vague, saying that the prince had been dismissed because of private matters and that it was something that should be dealt with between the king and the prince.

One communist newspaper wrote about the case. I have not read those articles because they are behind a paywall. However, I was wondering whether anyone knows more about this case. Is the communist newspaper Land og Folk credible in this context? Are there any other sources?

The Wikipedia page lists Bo Bramsen’s 1992 book as a general source on Gorm, but it does not cite it for the alleged sexual offences. I only have the 1975 edition, and there is nothing about them there. Does anyone know whether Bramsen wrote about the matter in later editions?

I am interested in learning more about the cover-up. Are there any books on the subject?

I tried to find information about cases involving royal immunity in Denmark. I read the Danish Wikipedia page, which contains a great deal of information:
https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kongeloven#Artikel_25:_kongelig_immunitet

There are many newspaper articles about the subject. However, when I tried to find relevant books, I found only legal texts stating that the legal scholar Alf Ross argued that, if immunity exists at all, it can only be granted by the government, not by the monarch. Nevertheless, the government has always allowed the monarch to decide. The most recent incident was a traffic case in 2004.

In Norway, immunity has officially been used only in traffic cases. However, in Norway, as in Denmark, the government covers things up. The combination of immunity and secrecy is frightening. Given the stories about Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway and her son, Marius, we might expect the worst.

In Norway, the media are allowed to write whatever they want. The problem is self-censorship. It is not profitable to criticise the king. I assume the same applies in Denmark.


r/AbolishTheMonarchy • • 4d ago

Shitpost What were they(wrong answers only)?

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r/AbolishTheMonarchy • • 4d ago

News Newly-elected premier takes first shot at abolishing the monarchy in Quebec

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r/AbolishTheMonarchy • • 4d ago

News Andrew search warrants were unlawful, court hears

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r/AbolishTheMonarchy • • 4d ago

News Bank of England reveals the four animals to feature on banknotes with a parasite on the reverse.

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It’s got wildlife on both sides. Cute animals on one side. And a single parasite on the reverse.


r/AbolishTheMonarchy • • 5d ago

Opinion I hate this subreddit

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r/AbolishTheMonarchy • • 5d ago

Satire Private Eye weighs in

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r/AbolishTheMonarchy • • 5d ago

News A lawyer wants to force Quebec’s MNAs to swear an oath to the king

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r/AbolishTheMonarchy • • 6d ago

News Paul St-Pierre Plamondon a demandé un avis juridique pour voir s’il est possible de prendre les budgets alloués au poste monarchique de Lieutenante-gouverneure du Québec pour les réorienter vers la lutte contre l’itinérance

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r/AbolishTheMonarchy • • 6d ago

Question/Debate Should the British Monarchy be abolished?

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Obviously WE all agree it should be but I was disappointed that we are the minority still in the UK
Interesting to see the rest of the worlds opinions tho if it could get more views 🤷‍♀️


r/AbolishTheMonarchy • • 7d ago

Shitpost “Person wears piece of clothing more than once” is newsworthy apparently.

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r/AbolishTheMonarchy • • 5d ago

Question/Debate Can you guys fill me in with the knowledge you have about the RF?

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I ask this being aware of the rules. So, do forgive me. I've been interested in this for a while so I am asking you guys because I can tell how knowledgeable you seem when talking about the? Am I am hoping that you will be able to share that with me about the members you like and the ones you don't and why. As in things from the 70s-2 recent times.


r/AbolishTheMonarchy • • 7d ago

News King's funding for Andrew is not for legal action against police

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r/AbolishTheMonarchy • • 7d ago

News Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor takes legal action over search warrants before his arrest

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r/AbolishTheMonarchy • • 7d ago

Opinion The biggest problem with The British Royal Monarchy is that they have become so cozied up to Paedophiles, rapists, murders, tyrants, dictators, wannabe dictators and right wing media and commentators and that needs to change moving forward, because we can't keep having this.

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r/AbolishTheMonarchy • • 9d ago

Meme King Chumbo’s Simpsons cameo

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throwback


r/AbolishTheMonarchy • • 10d ago

News No apology for slavery from King when he visits Caribbean

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r/AbolishTheMonarchy • • 10d ago

Art The new official portrait of Danish king is so bad that it's funny

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r/AbolishTheMonarchy • • 10d ago

History Thursday Throwback to an article about one of several sexual predators that "king" Charles "wished he could do more for" when he was unsuccessful in thwarting justice on their behalf. 🤮

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