{"id":305994,"date":"2026-02-19T11:15:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/305994\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T11:15:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:15:06","slug":"britains-former-prince-andrew-in-custody-after-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/305994\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain’s former prince Andrew in custody after arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Britain’s Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office and is in police custody.<\/p>\n

Thames Valley Police confirmed the arrest this morning following allegations made against the former prince after the release of millions of pages of files related to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n

The arrest comes as pictures circulated online appearing to show unmarked police cars attending Wood Farm on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, England, with plain-clothed officers appearing to gather outside Mr Mountbatten-Windsor’s home.<\/p>\n

Thames Valley Police previously said the force was reviewing allegations that a woman was trafficked to the UK by Epstein to have a sexual encounter with Mr Mountbatten-Windsor, and claims he shared sensitive information with the paedophile while serving as the UK’s trade envoy.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, King Charles made clear his “profound concern” at allegations over Mr Mountbatten-Windsor’s conduct<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Searches are being carried out at addresses in Berkshire, west of London, and Norfolk in eastern England today, Thames Valley Police said.<\/p>\n

Assistant Chief Constable Oliver Wright said: “Following a thorough assessment, we have now opened an investigation into this allegation of misconduct in public office.<\/p>\n

“It is important that we protect the integrity and objectivity of our investigation as we work with our partners to investigate this alleged offence.<\/p>\n

“We understand the significant public interest in this case, and we will provide updates at the appropriate time.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain’s Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office and is in police custody.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-305994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}