AMW arrested …

[fairmaidofutopia]

At last …. 😊

I think there are better prospects of a conviction in this than on the sex stuff.

I suspect any prison sentence would involve special conditions though…

Even if they were told, it seems unlikely they'd have done anything about it - can't see Charles texting Andrew urgently to get on a plane to the nearest non-extradition country.

I'm getting ads for Pizza Express on this thread...

Let’s hope he doesn’t get Legal Aid.

He didn't have a rottweiler lawyer by his side though in the tv interview.

Was it last night or this morning that Sir Keir Starmer was answering questions about whether Andrew should be arrested or some such thing, he replied 'the law has to run its course'... that suggests someone knew what was coming.

Not sure the law has to arrest someone to go through their emails - I think they can do that for all sorts of reasons; like if you put the wrong items in the wrong wheelie bin. I got the impression Surrey Council were hacking my email and nobody's ever arrested me - then again, whether you can use that as evidence in court is another thing, as opposed to spying on someone.

Interesting parallel news underreported - in the Met you now have to declare whether you are a freemason; or is that law yet to be passed? It makes a difference given the Royal Family's links to freemasons. I mean, the late Prince Philip was high up among the freemasons but don't you know, in the reams and reams and reams of press coverage following his death, none of the papers saw fit to mention it. It was only the Surrey freemasons who drew it to my attention with a piece in the freemason-friendly Surrey Advertiser, mourning his passing.

"Put your trousers on, sunshine, you're nicked!" ..said the arresting officer, while all his envious colleagues were heard sniggering in the background.

And on his birthday 🤭

If I were Charles, I would get Royal Lodge a spiritual cleansing, not move into it.

Let's see what happens with Fergie.

Good. Its interesting though that the UK and a few EU nations seem to be the ones finally pursuing these odious men. Despite many things happening on American, despite a lot of "push" noise from Dems, etc, there seems to be a lot of noise but no action on that side of the pond. Curious

Finally !

I hope this is the catalyst for unsealing the trade envoy files, I think the government will come under enormous pressure now get those released !

I don’t believe this will ever come to trial though, I wouldn’t be surprised if he won’t be around !

I guess we can agree that neither of us can know KCIII motivations then.
Personally, I cannot imagine loaning a family member £4M to give to a person who was claiming historical sexual abuse if I thought he was innocent of crime.
But I was not a King to be nor a member of a Firm which must be protected.

Anyone know when it'll be Mandelsons' turn?

And the king said?.....The law must take its course

The funny thing about the Maitless interview is that on paper I'm not sure Andrew said anything that incriminating, which is why he was happy with it initially.

There was no 'Gotcha!' moment where Maitless said 'But hang on, you said a minute ago you'd never met Ms Guiffre' or some such thing.

But Andrew's boorish tone did it for him, for me that was the eye-opener. Referring to being in Tramps but saying the story about him paying for drinks couldn't be true in that instance 'because he doesn't carry money'. Charming! His dismissive reference to an ordinary 'hunting party' - not very relatable. Smirking that he would remember being in Pizza Express that day - because a person of his standing would remember being in a venue like that. As in, it's not the Savoy, is it. Being 'too compassionate' to ditch Epstein just like that.

That all said, despite there being no smoking gun at the time, these quotes later did for him when the emails came out.

Oddly, there are no references to anyone else ever seeing him at Pizza Express, nobody getting out their phones to snap him, not from staff or customers. So, is it possible that his using the word 'pizza' was some sort of cute or arrogant code to signal to his co-conspirators - if the word 'pizza' was code for something else?

Buggerall is exactly what will happen to any of them until most of my generation (40's) is dead and the embarrassing deference stops. There's still hope for younger people to see past the the shiny crowns and see them for what they are (the perpetuation of the class system)

is this the main thread on this topic?

cant help but wonder what atrocious public policy is being pushed through whilst the world looks at the sweaty nonce 🫩

Interesting article in US NPR this am explaining why there are such limited consequences in the US.

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/14/nx-s1-5714609/epstein-europe-fallout

Regarding the King not being informed in advance of the arrest, am I wrong or did I understand that the police cannot enroach Royal lands without the monarch's approval, or something like that? Is Wood Farm on such land?

I can't see it either, MoiraPlunkett, but only because Andrew skipping may look even worse, with little chance of shutting this down

This way the whole thing can be choreographed to give the appearance of "doing something", while avoiding any further comment and hoping to shackle the media in case it affects a trial

And regardless of what evidence exists, if a trial ever happens I'll eat my hat

Edited to add you're right about police needing Charles's permission to access royal properties, cresenda, and in fairness that wouldn't necessarily have to involve them arresting his brother
However that would depend on a belief that he "didn't know", and he's tried that one rather too often for it to be trusted any more

they did say when he moved that some of his stuff was still in RL. Some felt that Charles was fed up and turfed him out "immediately" which was at night. Who knows.

Absolutely brilliant 😂😂😂

Good. Just need America to start taking this seriously and start arresting and charging perpetrators there too.

She’s very very good.

Who's going to arrest Trump?