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Prince Andrew’s current predicament has just prompted writer Christopher Smithers to pen a piece for Express UK where he’s highlighted the former Duke’s downfall as well as current woes.
For those unversed, just a few days ago Prince Andrew released a public statement via Bucknigham Palace. In it he promised to forgo the public use of his titles and honours, in order to “put my duty to my family and country first”.
However, it did not go over as expected with many a people calling on Parliament to take measures to properly strip Prince Andrew of said titles, instead of just not using them in public.
More recently though comments made by his late accuser Virginia Giuffre in her memoir Nobody’s Girl took note of some of his more shocking personality traits, which have been called ‘entitled’.
This prompted the writer to note down how this decision may effect this ‘sense of entitlement’ that the prince allegedly felt, as per Ms Giuffre, when it came to having sexual relations with her.
“Andrew was untouchable for easily understandable reasons, which he clearly felt he was entitled to exploit to the full as and when the mood took him,” the expert began by saying.
And “on a human level and under any other circumstances very few people who hold such extreme feelings of entitlement would be tolerated and society at large has a funny habit of levelling a playing field,” Mr Smithers added.
Which is why he feels “the loss of his titles does level the playing field somewhat, with the sheer scale of the brouhaha surrounding it being enough to make one giddy.”
A pilot executed an emergency landing on the sands of Huntington Beach late Thursday evening, October 23, after a single-engine aircraft suffered a complete engine failure.
No injuries are reported following the incident. This marks the third aviation crisis in Southern California in the past three weeks.
The aircraft is identified as a 1973 Cessna 172 that had departed from Santa Barbara Airport en route to John Wayne Airport around 8:30 p.m.
After an hour into the flight, the pilot reported a loss of engine power and an inability to reach the intended destination.
Corbin Carson, Huntington Beach’s public affairs manager stated, “The pilot landed the aircraft on the shore after reporting engine trouble and being unable to return to John Wayne Airport.”
The situation was examined from the air by the Huntington Beach Police Department’s helicopter, HB-1, whose pilot overheard the distress calls.
The pilot of the Cessna used his visual contact with the helicopter crew and masterfully steered the plane towards a soft landing between the Lifeguard Towers 11 and 13 near the pier at around 9:30 p.m.
“The landing was incidental and both the pilot and passenger, along with other bystanders on the beach, were not hurt,” the authorities confirmed.
The plane had not been damaged during the landing, requiring heavy machinery to be taken off the beach.
The landing and emergency landing are the third and fourth recent aviation accidents in the region, after a helicopter crash in Huntington Beach, which hospitalized five people and a forced landing of a plane in Long Beach on October 21.
The Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) have also been informed and will also begin investigations on the cause of engine failure.
King Charles is reportedly ‘very disappointed’ that his brother Prince Andrew affair is totally overshadowing his major historical visit to Vatican.
King Charles on Thursday became the first head of the Church of England to pray publicly with a pope since the schism with Rome 500 years ago, in a service led by Leo XIV.
The monarch and his wife, Queen Camilla, joined the US-born pope in the Sistine Chapel for a 30-minute service mixing Catholic and Anglican traditions.
It was the first time a reigning English or British monarch has prayed publicly with a pope since king Henry VIII broke with the Roman Catholic Church in 1534.
King Charles, who is officially supreme governor of the Anglican mother church, earlier had his first meeting with Pope Leo, who took over as head of the world´s 1.4 billion Catholics in May following the death of Pope Francis.
The pope led the Sistine Chapel service with the archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, currently the senior cleric of the Church of England, while Charles and Camilla sat next to them.
King Charles and Camilla arrived in Vatican nearly a week after Prince Andrew announced to relinquish royal titles.
According to the Fox News Digital, commenting on it, royal expert Ian Pelham Turner said, “Obviously, King Charles is very disappointed that the Andrew affair is totally overshadowing this major historical event, and it was thought he might face questions from the media, but I think that is very unlikely now as all the media are interested in his thoughts on Andrew.”
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Interior on Friday formally banned Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), declaring the group a proscribed organisation under the anti-terrorism act (ATA).
The notification, issued by the Ministry of Interior, stated that the federal government has reasonable grounds to believe that Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan is connected with and concerned in terrorism.
“… In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 11B(1)(a) of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997 (XXVII of 1997), the federal government hereby orders TLP to be a proscribed organisation for the purpose of the Act and list the aforesaid organisation in the first schedule to the said Act,” read the notification.
The interior ministry has sent notification to TLP leadership as well as to all concerned federal and provincial authorities.
This is a developing story and is being updated accordingly..
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