Prince (not) Andrew arrested.

Can we have you as leader of the new republic please? 🙂 ✊

@Lavaday it is likely to do with Epstein but when he was trade envoy and sharing trade secrets. The details of why arrested would be different if related to sex offences.

We can but hope that when they trawl through his files, emails etc they can find evidence of other offences (and other people involved)

I am not British but I have always been AMAZED that for a country that has contributed so much to literature, art and science, that this bunch of inbreds was what made so many proud to be British.

The British do themselves a disservice thinking it's this family that draws the tourists and interest.

Good, I will only be really pleased when he is charged, put on trial and there is a verdict. This arrest of course is for the breaches of state information while he was Trade Envoy and nothing to do with all the vile sex crimes for which he will never see justice. It is a start though and good to see the UK actually doing something unlike the US

I wondered how they dealt with people dumping stuff and it seems they can be quite thorough on finding out about devices that did exist that have been disappeared. Hopefully true for all people who will be arrested.

I do think it's a way around it though. There are plenty of cases where if you can't nail someone for one thing, you do it for something else. Although I'd like to think he will face justice separately for both.

Why are so many know it alls repeating this is not related to Epstein/sex trafficking. It’s all connected. Andrew’s misconduct was laid bare in the Epstein files. I doubt he would have been arrested without those emails.

I wonder why govt has agreed to enquiry on this, even if somewhat limited? I guess we'll have wait and see

Unless his roommate is a well muscled 6’7” nutcase who goes by the name of Dorothy.

As time goes by more and more people will come to this opinion.

An American colleague commiserated with me about it!! I thanked her, but told her not to. The royals mean nothing to me. This is yet another example of what a bunch of ugly, vulgar, arrogant, entitled gargoyles they really are.

My national pride is rooted in Shakespeare and Jane Austen and George Eliot and Dickens and Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin and the Brontes and Wordsworth and Keats and Wilfred Owen and Virginia Woolf. Any country that can produce Bertrand Russell and Aldous Huxley and George Orwell in one generation is alright by me. I’m proud of Oxford and Cambridge, of Alan Turing and the discovery of DNA. It’s this island’s contribution to the life of the mind, to the world of literature and science, that gives me pride, not that bunch of ghastly imbeciles. Harry is basically a chav with a posh accent. In fact, I doubt any of them have ever finished a serious book. Even P. G. Wodehouse and David Bowie and the Beatles give me more pride. All we ask is that they behave with a bit of dignity and grace, and they can’t even do that! Ditch the lot of them.

So much mis information about. This has nothing to do with the girls, it's to do with his time as trade envoy.

With luck they will cease laptops/ tablets/ phones etc. I presume Royal communications and data are well backed-up and protected and now there is a criminal investigation the police presumably should be able to access all of that even if he has disposed of his own devices.

The authorities have said “nobody is above the law” so let’s see now if this is true and he is treated like any other suspect with ALL of his data obtained and scrutinised. I suspect that will uncover lots of evidence of multiple offences if they do their job properly and don’t allow the Royals an opt-out of justice and to redact things that they don’t wish the public to know. If they try to do that it may bring down the entire institution so would be ill-advised.

Let’s hope that this also leads by proxy to many of their other nefarious financial and other behaviour being uncovered and a complete rethinking of their role in public life, funding, and requirements for transparency, observing the law and paying tax on the same terms as everyone else from now on: no more exceptions.

But hopefully will lead the police in that direction!

Thinking of poor Virginia (I know the arrest is not in direct connection to Epstein but Virginia exposed their depravity to the world). Used and abused by evil men. Including her own father 😢. RIP.

Regardless of what happens with the police investigation Andrew has blood on his hands. And so do the entire RF who protected him. I was absolutely appalled when the arrogant loser attended the royal church service at Sandringham on Christmas Day. Sick of the lot of them

This arrest has nothing to do with the Epstein affair

He might need brown trousers, though!

Oh cool, so im mistaken, can you confirm for me there were no Pakistani rape gzngs? Looking forward to see where ive bern misled

Did ye? Aye.

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Yet, posts it on mumsnet 🤣

Read Entitled,by Andrew Lownie, evidence based - an eye opener!

Meet your cellmate, Andy.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8rm7v0zr24o

Do you think this would be happening if Farage was PM, given his friendship with Trump?

It’ll be the food bank next!

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I do feel sorry for his daughters - they were raised by A and S. How does someone form a strong moral compass when raised by people who wouldn't recognise one if it stabbed them in the face?

Children are inclined to love and trust their parents, to view right and wrong according to what their parents show them. To make excuses because they love them. Seemingly everyone around AMW let him live this way, inc TLQ - seems a bit much to expect the daughters (who were young for much of this), to buck that trend.

It's possible to have some sympathy for B and E and also for Epstein's victims - it's not one or the other.

AME strikes me as someone who was educated and promoted beyond his abilities. Combined with his huge sense of entitlement, that put him in the path of men like Epstein, who would want to exploit that. His best defence imo is that he was not intelligent enough to know what he was giving away - that I would be inclined to believe!