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13:00 GMT<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n <\/span><\/header>\n <\/span><\/span>Sean Coughlan<\/strong> Thames Valley Police has arrested Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on suspicion of misconduct in public office.<\/p>\n It follows a series of claims that he allegedly shared official documents, including to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n Previously reported allegations included that he had shared reports from trade visits, forwarded a confidential briefing on investment in Afghanistan, and passed a Treasury briefing to a personal business contact.<\/p>\n However, the specifics of this investigation which has led to the arrest have not been made public yet.<\/p>\n Andrew’s royal status should have made no legal difference to how this case is assessed.<\/p>\n Although, it\u2019s worth bearing in mind his actual title was the UK Special Representative for International Trade and Investment – and the Department for Business and Trade has emphasised, in guidance to the BBC, that he was not operating under the rules that now apply to trade envoys.<\/p>\n Andrew has previously denied wrongdoing in relation to Epstein; he has not responded to the BBC\u2019s requests for comment on any of the specific allegations in relation to the release of millions of Epstein files in January.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.bbc.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Andrew’s royal status should have no bearing on handling of investigationpublished at 13:00 GMT 13:00 GMT Sean CoughlanRoyal correspondent Thames Valley Police has arrested Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on suspicion of misconduct in public office. It follows a series of claims that he allegedly shared official documents, including to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Previously reported allegations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2242212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2289130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Prince-Harry-and-others-clutching-at-straws-with-claims-against.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2289131,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289130\/revisions\/2289131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2242212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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