Henry V<\/a> (reigned from 1413 to 1422) had his stepmother, Joan of Navarre, arrested on suspicion of sorcery.<\/p>\nHis son and successor, Henry VI (reigned from 1422 to 1471), had his aunt by marriage, Eleanor Cobham, confined in 1441 under charges of necromancy. Although both women were arrested under the rule of law of their time, their imprisonments might have masked ulterior motives; financial ones, in Joan\u2019s case and political ones in Eleanor\u2019s.<\/p>\n
The most prolific reign for royal arrests was, unsurprisingly, that of Henry VIII (reigned from 1509 to 1547), who placed 12 close relatives in custody, including three wives, a niece and a first cousin.<\/p>\n
The last royal imprisonment was that of Sophia Dorothea of Celle in 1694. The wife of George of Hannover, who later became king as George I in 1714, she was accused of adultery. Despite being the mother of the Prince of Wales, Sophia remained locked up after her former husband became king, dying in custody in 1726.<\/p>\n
So Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is only the latest in a line of royal arrests, a practice that was fairly constant until the late 17th century.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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