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YourAmplePlumPoster · 19/02/2026 10:58

I bet the Americans are envious that heads are rolling here unlike the US where they are apparently immune.

KatyaKanani · 19/02/2026 10:58

treeowl · 19/02/2026 10:54

There is no evidence that she gave him money for this pay off, and certainly no evidence for the sum of £12m

Is there evidence she didn’t?

That's not how you look for evidence 😂😂

InterestedDad37 · 19/02/2026 10:57

YourAmplePlumPoster · 19/02/2026 10:12

Getting my knitting ready by the tumbrils.

(side question: what's the 'knitting by the tumbrils' reference about? : like getting the popcorn out, I get that, but knitting... tumbrils - I'm intrigued 🙂)

andHelenknowsimmiserablenow · 19/02/2026 10:57

sittingonabeach · 19/02/2026 10:55

Do you get a life sentence for insider dealing type crimes, because this is what he has been arrested for?

I dont think so, not in the UK, anyway.

YourAmplePlumPoster · 19/02/2026 10:57

Detained at His Majesty's Pleasure. Lol 😆

sittingonabeach · 19/02/2026 10:56

Many people are mistaken if they think this is anything to do with trafficked girls/women

sittingonabeach · 19/02/2026 10:55

Do you get a life sentence for insider dealing type crimes, because this is what he has been arrested for?

treeowl · 19/02/2026 10:54

There is no evidence that she gave him money for this pay off, and certainly no evidence for the sum of £12m

Is there evidence she didn’t?

Makingadecision · 19/02/2026 10:53

I hope it’s not just a tick box exercise to “appease the masses” and it means they are seriously investigating and will take forward any evidence of criminality.
then I hope there’s a way to force him to testify in the US.

DabOfPistachio · 19/02/2026 10:53

Charles will have known about this and I doubt they'd have arrested him expected it to be going nowhere.
I may be proven wrong, but the queen is no longer around to protect him. My money is on Will and Charles completely throwing Andrew to the wolves. It's the only way the RF can come out of it without the spotlight being turned on them.
And let's be honest, in the unlikely event that Andrew gets a life sentence and goes to prison, will there be a single person in this country who'll feel sorry for him? I doubt even Sarah Ferguson will care outside of worrying that she might be next.

LizzieW1969 · 19/02/2026 10:52

Regardless of whether this is about the Epstein files or ‘just’ about misconduct in public office’, I’m hoping that he’ll be charged with something. It will still be a lot better than I ever expected.

And hopefully the investigation will lead to more evidence concerning his links with Epstein coming to light.

Will he finally decide to reveal all he knows? If he doesn’t, will Mandelson, who will also be part of this investigation?

Sadly, I have my doubts. There are powerful men, including the current POTUS, who have every reason to conceal what their own involvement in the Epstein scandal.

KatyaKanani · 19/02/2026 10:52

Happyjoe · 19/02/2026 10:49

It was a bad move by Queenie imo and something that will taint her memory.

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There is no evidence that she gave him money for this pay off, and certainly no evidence for the sum of £12m.

andHelenknowsimmiserablenow · 19/02/2026 10:52

dragonbreaths · 19/02/2026 10:46

fingers crossed the 24 Hours in Police Custody cameras are around

Can you imagine the police offering him instant coffee, and a duty solicitor, while he is wearing one of those grey tracksuits? OMG

ginasevern · 19/02/2026 10:51

Happyjoe · 19/02/2026 10:49

It was a bad move by Queenie imo and something that will taint her memory.

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That's if you swallowed the "image" in the first place. She was no better than the rest of them.

pouletvous · 19/02/2026 10:51

He will be released without charge

ilovesooty · 19/02/2026 10:50

17to35 · 19/02/2026 10:24

This has nothing to do with his sexual antics. This is his behaviour as a trade envoy.

Yes. Yesterday on the radio I heard the uncomfortable questions being fended off by an MP who'd come across him in his work.

I hope he's being held in a cell.

treeowl · 19/02/2026 10:50

I think that the RF were aware this was going to happen

Of course they were!

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Happyjoe · 19/02/2026 10:49

ginasevern · 19/02/2026 10:48

Absolutely this. I keep reading that the "UK is leading the way". Propaganda at it's finest. To say nothing of the RF trying to bail out one of their own (and silence a trafficked woman) to the tune of £12 million.

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It was a bad move by Queenie imo and something that will taint her memory.

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CuriousKangaroo · 19/02/2026 10:48

CharlotteRumpling · 19/02/2026 10:14

I hope this brings down the whole royal family. Pointless bunch of wankers.

Agreed.

ginasevern · 19/02/2026 10:48

Muffinmam · 19/02/2026 10:44

The UK is NOT leading the way. European nations started arresting the men who whose identities were in the Epstein files.

This is too little - too late.

Andrew should have been charged with SA. He wasn’t.

The Police also need to investigate the murder of the Latvian woman whose body was found near Andrew’s mansion years ago.

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Absolutely this. I keep reading that the "UK is leading the way". Propaganda at it's finest. To say nothing of the RF trying to bail out one of their own (and silence a trafficked woman) to the tune of £12 million.

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Happyjoe · 19/02/2026 10:48

Muffinmam · 19/02/2026 10:44

The UK is NOT leading the way. European nations started arresting the men who whose identities were in the Epstein files.

This is too little - too late.

Andrew should have been charged with SA. He wasn’t.

The Police also need to investigate the murder of the Latvian woman whose body was found near Andrew’s mansion years ago.

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I would rather Andrew was investigated on everything, but at the moment, I will take anything rather than him sat at home, stuffing foie gras and birthday cake today being a smug, untouchable bastard.

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StormyLandCloud · 19/02/2026 10:47

About time!
have been pondering if one of the reasons it’s happened now he’s at Sandringham, is because he’s now off ‘crown property’ … don’t know but it just seems to have fallen just as he’s moved

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Happyjoe · 19/02/2026 10:46

dragonbreaths · 19/02/2026 10:46

fingers crossed the 24 Hours in Police Custody cameras are around

That would break the internet!

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dragonbreaths · 19/02/2026 10:46

fingers crossed the 24 Hours in Police Custody cameras are around

TheignT · 19/02/2026 10:45

17to35 · 19/02/2026 10:24

This has nothing to do with his sexual antics. This is his behaviour as a trade envoy.

That's what I thought.