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Videos
In honour of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor's arrest Spitting Image has released this carefully crafted ex-royal souvenir... compilation of sketches featuring the creep formerly known as Prince.
It all came from their recent The Rest Is Bulls*!t YouTube series:
Spitting Image: The Andrew arrest special
Compilation of sketches featuring the shamed royal
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