{"id":2290516,"date":"2026-02-20T05:37:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2290516"},"modified":"2026-02-20T05:37:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:37:28","slug":"the-day-andrew-mountbatten-windsor-was-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-day-andrew-mountbatten-windsor-was-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"The day Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">On Thursday morning Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested at Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, on his 66th birthday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The former prince was taken to a police station in Aylsham on suspicion of misconduct in public office &#8211; he was later released under investigation, Thames Valley Police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">In statement, King Charles III said &#8220;the law must take its course&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The King and Queen have both been seen carrying out Royal duties as normal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Andrew&#8217;s arrest came after Thames Valley Police said they were assessing a complaint over the alleged sharing of confidential material by the former prince with late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Andrew, has previously denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein; he has not responded to the BBC&#8217;s requests for comment on the specific allegations in relation to the release of millions of Epstein files in January. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\"><i id=\"video-by-rachel-flynn-and-marina-costa.\" class=\"sc-d16436d-0 iVdNuz\">Video by Rachel Flynn and Marina Costa.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.bbc.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday morning Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested at Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, on his 66th birthday. The former prince was taken to a police station in Aylsham on suspicion of misconduct in public office &#8211; he was later released under investigation, Thames Valley Police said. In statement, King Charles III said &#8220;the law must take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2290517,"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-2290516","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\/02\/The-day-Andrew-Mountbatten-Windsor-was-arrested.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290516","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=2290516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290518,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290516\/revisions\/2290518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2290517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2290516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2290516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2290516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}