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"Utmost Sympathies"
Steyn Online ^ | 31 October 2025 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 10/31/2025 8:05:04 AM PDT by Rummyfan

Last night, HM The King announced that his brother, until recently HRH The Duke of York KG KCVO, will now be formally stripped of all his titles, styles and dignities and will be reduced to trying to book fashionable London restaurants - or even Pizza Express in Woking - as plain old Mr Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. As longtime readers may recall, I dined at Buckingham Palace, midst princes, dukes, earls, viscounts and knights, as the only mister at the table and rather enjoyed it - although, even at that lowly rank, the sense of remorseless imperial decline down the decades is palpable: from Mr Gladstone... to Mr Steyn... to Mr Mountbatten Windsor... Why not go all the way and order His former Royal Highness to wander the streets as Mr Sarah Ferguson?

Be that as it may, it was the final sentence in the Palace's 109-word statement that caught my eye:

Their Majesties wish to make clear that their thoughts and utmost sympathies have been, and will remain with, the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse.

Had the King said that to me in person, I would have had great difficulty in restraining myself from punching him on the nose. Their Majesties have never expressed any "utmost sympathies" for the thousands upon thousands of their own young subjects in virtually every town up and down what passes for the spine of England gang-raped, sodomised, urinated on, dangled off balconies, doused in petrol, burned alive, fed into kebab mincers, etc. A decade ago, when I first met "grooming gang" victims in Rotherham, one of Sammy Woodhouse's chums told me that "Charles and Camilla" were said to have expressed interest in meeting with survivors - although Sammy herself, ground down by official dissembling even then, expressed some cynicism...

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1 posted on 10/31/2025 8:05:04 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Mark Steyn is brilliant.


2 posted on 10/31/2025 8:09:44 AM PDT by Fido969
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To: Rummyfan

Dethroning the decadent, hedonistic Andrew won’t restore Britain or reverse cultural suicide. It will continue to rot.


3 posted on 10/31/2025 8:11:33 AM PDT by allendale
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To: Fido969

CERTAINLY IS


4 posted on 10/31/2025 8:12:24 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Rummyfan

BTTT


5 posted on 10/31/2025 8:16:28 AM PDT by P.O.E.
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To: Rummyfan; mewzilla

6 posted on 10/31/2025 8:20:17 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Rummyfan

pretty severe penalty for something they say didn’t happen


7 posted on 10/31/2025 8:23:08 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: Rummyfan

Their Majesties have never expressed any “utmost sympathies” for the thousands upon thousands of their own young subjects
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Why did Mr. Windsor bothered to go to America and hook up with Mr. Epstein?
If he stayed home and went to Rotherham instead, he would be still HM Prince Andrew.


8 posted on 10/31/2025 8:26:39 AM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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To: Bob434

I believe Andrew paid 12M pounds to a woman he says he never met. Odd.


9 posted on 10/31/2025 8:30:25 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Democrats seek power through cheating and assassination. They are sociopaths. They just want power.)
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very odd- she musta had some kind of mind control over him or sumthin


10 posted on 10/31/2025 8:35:30 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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> pretty severe penalty for something they say didn’t happen <

Excellent point.


11 posted on 10/31/2025 8:40:29 AM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: Rummyfan
"Utmost Sympathies"

That's what Ash, the crypto-android in Alien said, just before he was finished off by Parker.

12 posted on 10/31/2025 8:42:57 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Red Badger

😜


13 posted on 10/31/2025 8:45:56 AM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRD)
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We now have our next contestant for The Golden Bachelor!............


14 posted on 10/31/2025 8:51:04 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Rummyfan

Steyn nails it again.


15 posted on 10/31/2025 8:53:48 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Red Badger

Looks like a Half-Windsor knot in his tie!


16 posted on 10/31/2025 9:15:44 AM PDT by 91B40
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To: Rummyfan

Just damn.


17 posted on 10/31/2025 9:18:58 AM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: Rummyfan

Mark Steyn was my favorite sub when the Great Rush was away. As for this...Andrew has my symphony.


18 posted on 10/31/2025 9:23:39 AM PDT by exPBRrat
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To: Red Badger

So is he going to come up with a symbol?


19 posted on 10/31/2025 9:24:52 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Fido969
Yes.

One thing never to be overlooked: The "utmost sympathies" of the Windsors is maintaining bum-throne contact.

At this, they are extremely adept.

20 posted on 10/31/2025 9:26:06 AM PDT by Savage Beast ("Break free from the temptations and shackles of this world." Erika Kirk, September 21, 2025)
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