That is not how a bastard works. To be clear, all of this is archaic, I’m not actually calling anybody a bastard, but the definition of bastard is “a child born to parents who are not married to each other.” He matches that definition because his parents were never married.
Affairs don’t come into it, it’s just some old bullshit cultural and religious ideals about which types of relationships (just the one: heterosexual marriages) children are “supposed” to be born into.
I don’t think he’s anywhere in the line of succession regardless. He’s the son of the Crown Princess (by marriage) but not of the Crown Prince. i.e. His mother had him as a result of a prior relationship, then married the Crown Prince, making him the stepson of the man who will one day be king, but not really anything on his own account. Besides a rapist.
This is a person with the joke user name quentin.quarantino, as a pun on quarantine and Tarantino. I don’t believe they are claiming to be the director.
Eventually the messages started coming with crypto addresses to help her with her sick dad and college tuition.
Polluting the atmosphere to own the cons.
The for-profit childcare system in Australia is profoundly broken. They’re chronically understaffed and the pay is awful to boot, so there’s tons of burnout and staff turnaround as people move around trying to get hours at different locations, etc. I don’t know that 27 different gigs over a decade is actually that unusual in the sector.
If you’re interested, ABC News Australia did an article on it:
Fair warning, there are some pretty unpleasant descriptions in the article of things that have been done to kids in the system.