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Speaker 1: To the Royal Mission of Sakia wants to get Andrew

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Speaker 1: off the succession list. Doesn't appear to be a problem

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Speaker 1: as we join the list of those in the Commonwealth

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Speaker 1: happy to help. Now we haven't written a letter like

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Speaker 1: Elbow has, but we have flagged our agreement for this anyway.

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Speaker 1: Robert Hartman's Royal correspondent of ours news in London with

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Speaker 1: us morning.

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Speaker 2: Mate, Good morning mate, the move on.

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Speaker 1: The line of succession. Is it real? Is it going

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Speaker 1: to happen? And win?

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Speaker 2: Well, these are very good questions. It is real. There

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Speaker 2: is a real appetite for it. Just today in Parliament

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Speaker 2: in London it's been discussed, which is in itself as unusual.

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Speaker 2: But everyone is very conscious that there is a legal

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Speaker 2: process going on here and if you in any way

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Speaker 2: jeopardize that, you could actually curtail a court case. So

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Speaker 2: I don't think anything's going to happen until we've had

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Speaker 2: some sort of resolution to the to the legal process.

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Speaker 2: At the moment, Prince Andrew as was now and Windsor

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Speaker 2: you know, he's been arrested, but he hasn't been charged

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Speaker 2: with anything, so we have to wait and see where

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Speaker 2: that goes. But generally speaking, the view is regardless of

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Speaker 2: the outcome of that legal process. He has behaved so

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Speaker 2: appallingly in so many ways that no one wants him

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Speaker 2: anywhere near the throne anyway. So let's let's kick him

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Speaker 2: off the line of succession. For that to hamm it

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Speaker 2: has to be agreed by all fifteen realms, not just Britain,

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Speaker 2: not just New Zealand, but Canada, Australia, Jamaica, other Caribbean realms.

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Speaker 2: Two Valu, happened to Guinea, all these places, they've all

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Speaker 2: got to agree. And it's not that complicated, but it does.

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Speaker 2: It just requires a lot of paperwork. It did happen

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Speaker 2: before it happened. In twenty eleven, all the realms got

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Speaker 2: together to change the rules so that a boy should

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Speaker 2: no longer trump a girl. It was just after William

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Speaker 2: and Catherine's wedding. Everyone thought, it's going to look really

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Speaker 2: bad if they have a girl, then they have a boy,

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Speaker 2: and the boy jumps ahead of the girl. So let's

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Speaker 2: change the rules, and while we're at it, let's let's

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Speaker 2: remove that bar on marrying Roman Catholics. So all that

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Speaker 2: happened not that long ago. It happened. It took a

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Speaker 2: few years to push it through, but it happened, and

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Speaker 2: I imagine the same would happen this time.

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Speaker 1: With the papers being released. I watched the debate in

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Speaker 1: the comments with the papers being released. Is there a

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Speaker 1: political risk that what's in those papers shows a level

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Speaker 1: of activity that should have been monitored more closely and

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Speaker 1: therefore there's fallout politically for them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there is potential fallout for the Palace and also

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Speaker 2: for several British government departments because Andrew's position as this

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Speaker 2: trade envoy was not only sanctioned by the Prime ministers

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Speaker 2: back in two thousand and one. I mean back government

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Speaker 2: departments were sort of nominally in charge of him as

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Speaker 2: he went around the world on the sort of first class,

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Speaker 2: all expenses paid trips. In the British Foreign Office, the

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Speaker 2: British Department of Trade Industry. You had the Home Affairs

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Speaker 2: Department office which looks after the police because he had

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Speaker 2: police protection. So there are a lot of questions to

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Speaker 2: be asked about how on earth did he end up

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Speaker 2: leading this sort of extraordinary playboy lifestyle at the taxpayer's expense.

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Speaker 2: But you know, it'll take time, and as I said,

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Speaker 2: there is a legal case going on and everyone is

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Speaker 2: very jumpy about checking stuff out in the public domain,

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Speaker 2: which might somehow prejudice that court case.

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Speaker 1: All right, make good. Catch up Robert Hardman, Royal correspondent.

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