A Royal Exit He Won't Make

The audacity. A Tory MP has decided to play kingmaker and is publicly suggesting a certain disgraced royal should just… bow out gracefully. Andrew Bowie, the Shadow Scotland Secretary, thinks it’s high time the Duke of York removed himself from the line of succession.

Because, let’s be real, that’s the only throne he’s getting near these days.

This isn’t about policy or constitutional reform. It’s a brutally public shove towards the door everyone knows he should have exited years ago. The request is dripping with the unspoken truth: your presence is an eternal embarrassment. Yet we all know the response from the House of York. Silence. Stubbornness. A complete and utter refusal to acknowledge the music stopped playing.

So the question hangs in the air, heavy with implication. Will he ever take the hint, or is he content to be the permanent ghost at the Windsor feast?

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