While Andrew initially announced he would no longer use his royal titles, there were further damaging allegations about his relationship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, prompting the King to formally remove his honours.

  • stoy@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    41
    ·
    2 days ago

    When I read the “HRH” title abbreviation it reminded me of my first trip abroad.

    I am a Swede and in the early nineties me and my family decided to take a trip to the UK, we took the family car and dad drove to the ferry, this was a Swedish car, with Swedish plates, and a clear national identifying sticker on the back noting us as Swedes.

    As we drove around in the UK, we noted that a lot of cars seemed to flash their indicators at us, weird…

    It took a few days but then we realized that our registration plate said “HRH 123”, and we felt quite self conscious after that…

    Anyway that was my story, and I’d rather post about that than read more about the shithead this article concerns.

    • egrets@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      1 day ago

      In my embellished mental image of this, you’re careening down the wrong side of the road, puzzled why everyone’s flashing their lights at you and honking, until one of you says, “Oh, it must be the number plate.”

      • stoy@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        1 day ago

        Hehe, I was thinking about that as I wrote it…

        Here in Sweden, we normally make fun of Norwegians with stupid jokes, and we have one about a Norwegian guy traveling to the UK with his car.

        He is driving down the motorway in the UK, listening to the radio when he hears this:

        “This is an emergency alert, there is a car driving against the flow of traffic on the A1 just south of Newcastle…”

        The Norwegian blurts out (in Norwegian):

        “One? There are thousands”