What does it mean?
The City of York revoked
"Freedom of the City"
What kind of message is this?
Is Prince Andrew now a serf or a servant?
Or is it the usual, we don't need you anymore!
Ancient times and modern
Are not much different
In the areas of government and vices.
The Prince of the Kingdom is seen as above it all.
But did all children born to the Crown get to be considered free?
Andrew was the first child born to Queen Elizabeth.
She was the Princess royal and newly married.
With the first two children.
Then she became the Queen and had two more kids.
Does it make a difference?
Whether they are born before the Coronation?
Some seem to have the need to needle the last two.
Neither Andrew nor Edward have had it easy.
With Andrew it was always the girls.
The career military one of the bunches.
While Edward was the playboy.
The only one who did not enter the military.
Ad then he married Sophie,
He may as well drop dead.
She is not anything a royal should marry
Those ultra-short skirts resulted in an overlarge daughter.
Certainly not the stuff of fairy tales.
Then there are Kate and Meghan.
Who wants them as in laws?
It is a sad fate of the upper class.
They don't have much choice in their spouses.
It is the offspring that are important to the treasury.
As for Andrew,
He was given the freedom of the city
As a wedding gift.
It was not revoked after the divorce
But only after he got caught in the middle
Of an old scandal.
It does not matter if it is true or not
This type of scandal always wounds
And it should have been avoided.
That is why, in the old days
Perverts or homosexual men
Were the preference of the advisors or secretaries.
Those close to a Prince who would not get caught
Getting the young man in trouble
Through association.
As it is said, it does not matter
Whether or not he did or did not do
What they said.
At this point
With the Queen on her way out the door
Only who to cull out of the winner's circle.
Who will be King?
Charles or William?
It should be anyone else.
They both married badly
They did the right things in public
Are good parents.
But their women
Are nothing to write home about.
Especially Kate.
Freedom of the City
Means a person who enters a city
Has the freedom not to be inscripted.
Forced into manual labor.
Or to march as a soldier to war.
A freeman was what many desired who immigrated to America.
In the past, each city was its own master.
They had the right to reflect foreigners
This included the royals.
Not that it might not have meant the end
Of a city if the Royal choose
To throw down the city or burn it to the ground.
But the reality,
Any man without an army
Was not allowed to walk around any city.
They needed protection
Even from the chief magistrate
Or City council.
In some places that is called the Sherriff
Or Count or Jarl
Depending upon location.
The idea that royal princes
Might disappear into towers
Or the dungeons of a city
Is not far fetched
Just not something one talks
About in modern times.
And yet,
How foolish have they been
Thinking they had the freedom
To work and walk about
Those with criminal minds
And worse vices.
The city of York is an old city
From pre conquest days
Thats 1066 A.D.
They evolved from defending against Romans
To inflicting harm on those silly enough
To enter their walls.
Once entered, a city might not be existed.
Even in Israel days
They were careful about their entrances.
Look what happened to that other boy.
Jesus was considered the son of god.
And yet they captured him and impaled him.
Now the Duke of York
Has to calculate
Whether or not if any of his kin
Are safe to enter the old
Places of the Celts and Druids
As his family are still considered foreign invaders.
While his mother is keeping everyone guessing
As to who her heir will be
If she ever does die, so far no idea.
The local yonkles
Are not playing around.
They don't want to acknowledge the Crown.
And they have made it clear
What they feel about these foreigners.
Still not accepted in their cities.
Good luck
Little Charlotte
Your life is the only one that matters.
Watch Anne
And see if you can get around
The obstacle course set before you.
Unlike the boys
Who almost never have a choice.
What is going to happen next,
Now that the man of the house
Has stepped out.
Is anyone's guess,
God speed Phillip.
And do try to at least keep your head attached, young Andrew...
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