Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

[onetrack]

Oh dear, it looks like Andrews problems are not going to go away - in fact they're getting worse.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/19/police-former-prince-andrew-mountbatten-windsor-sandringham

[Jerry_Atrick]

When I did UK law, only the monarch him or herself was above the law, held by a case way back in the 15th or 16th century (IO think - have to look it up). 

 

Be interesting to see if that actually holds. 

 

Of course, just because someone wrote something happened donb't mean it did, or in the context it was written. 

 

But, I wonder if any pedo cases are coming his way (and I don't know if he is implicated in indulging in sex with an underage person), because another quirk of UK law is that it applies everywhere in the world. So, as a UK citizen, if you commit an offence under UK law in another country where whatever you did is not an offience, then you can still be liable for that offence in the UK. It was intorduced to stop mutiny I believe.

[rgmwa]

The last Royal to be arrested was Charles 1st in 1649. He was convicted of treason and lost his head. I wonder what Andrew will be charged with. 

[Jerry_Atrick]

Indeed. And technically, his arrest is illegale.. and technically, there is no legal basis for the current UK parliament. Howver, if course, both have been accepted and it would be ludicrous to suggest that the parliament is not the legal legislature in the UK, which has an unwrittenn (IMHO, no) constitution. 

 

Andrew may not be charged at all. He was arrested on suspicion  only. However, in the interest of justice, given the profile of the individual, the investigation should be as public as possible (which is not much) while preserving his right to fair and due process. 

 

Remember, there are many more high profile individuals who have been implicated in worse. 

[nomadpete]

37 minutes ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

Remember, there are many more high profile individuals who have been implicated in worse. 

And I ask, are there many more who might have cause to worry about consequences?

[red750]

He has been released. There were reports on the internet yesterday that he had been seen watching a six year old girl being tortured with electric shocks.

[red750]

The misconduct related to passing on secrets while he was international trade ambassador.

[Jerry_Atrick]

Personally I would wait for the official stuff than speculation at the moment. There wil be all osrts of rumours in the mill at the moment. Whilst Mountbatten (he is actually no longer officially a royal anymore) was a few cents short of a dollar whom  Epstien and let's not forget Maxwell could exploit, many people he dealt with had a few more grey cells between their ears, so building a fake, or at least embelished dossier for extortion purposes would not be too big a leap. Of course, there will be those who are entirely involved, regardless of extortion or not, and there are those whom may have had a somewhat fake or embellished set of files established to see how far messrs Epstein and Maxwell could get,.