{"id":2304903,"date":"2026-02-28T11:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T11:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2304903"},"modified":"2026-02-28T11:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T11:37:09","slug":"andrew-mountbatten-windsor-author-of-his-own-misfortunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/andrew-mountbatten-windsor-author-of-his-own-misfortunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor: \u2018author of his own misfortunes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In February 2010, Prince Andrew celebrated his 50th birthday with a glittering reception at St James\u2019s Palace. Jeffrey Epstein, recently released from jail for soliciting sex with a 14-year-old girl, declined an invitation. But hundreds attended, including the model Naomi Campbell and the banker Evelyn de Rothschild, said Alexi Mostrous in The Observer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sixteen years on, the man now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor<\/a> marked his 66th birthday in radically altered circumstances. At around 8am last Thursday, a fleet of unmarked police cars arrived at the former duke\u2019s temporary residence on the Sandringham Estate, and arrested him on suspicion of misconduct in public office<\/a>. While Andrew was detained in custody, officers searched his homes. Eleven hours later, as he was driven away from Aylsham police station, a photographer snapped him sitting slumped, ashen-faced, in the back of a Range Rover. The next morning, this image was splashed on front pages across the world; two days after that, anti-super-rich activists hung a copy in the Louvre in Paris, above a card reading: \u201cHe\u2019s sweating now\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Ruined man<\/h2>\n

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