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Fact check: did Charles make Andrew a Counsellor of State?

15 September 2022

1:50 AM

15 September 2022

1:50 AM

What better way to mark the death of the monarch than via some good old royal disinformation? Twitter users have been in a strop today about Prince Andrew, the black sheep of the Windsor mob. Apparently, his brother, King Charles, has taken it up on himself to appoint the Duke of York as a ‘Counsellor of State’, to whom the monarch can delegate royal functions.

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