Here\u2019s how the world media is reporting on the arrest, and subsequent release, of the former prince.<\/p>\n
\u2018Andrew\u2019s arrest is the royals\u2019 greatest day of shame\u2019 – Andrew Tillett in the Australian Financial Review<\/p>\n
Writing in the Australian Financial Review, Europe correspondent Andrew Tillett called Mountbatten-Windsor\u2019s arrest \u201cthe royals\u2019 greatest day of shame\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe former prince Andrew\u2019s arrest on his 66th birthday \u2013 the first son and brother of a monarch to be arrested in the modern era \u2013 at his new home in Sandringham estate is the darkest day for the House of Windsor,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
\u2018An unprecedented blow\u2019 – AFP<\/p>\n
The AFP news agency reported that the British royal family has been \u201cthrown into crisis\u201d and called Mountbatten-Windsor\u2019s arrest an \u201cunprecedented blow\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs Andrew marked his 66th birthday on Thursday, police swooped on his new home on the remote royal eastern Sandringham estate around 8am,\u201d the agency reported.<\/p>\n
\u201cKing Charles III, who has promised police the full support of Buckingham Palace, swiftly issued a rare personally signed statement insisting \u2018the law must take its course\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a humiliating new blow for Andrew, who was last year stripped of his titles, and ousted from his Windsor residence of more than two decades.<\/p>\n
AFP quoted royal expert Ed Owens, who called it a \u201chugely significant moment for the British monarch, and indeed the [British] nation\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are witnessing a monarchy, I think, shaken by recent events.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2018Unprecedented in modern times\u2019 – Reuters<\/p>\n
British news agency Reuters published an already-iconic photograph of Mountbatten-Windsor leaving Norfolk police station. <\/p>\n
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor leaves the police station in a photograph by Reuters being used during the BBC live coverage.<\/p>\n
The former prince appears shocked, slouched back into the backseat of the vehicle as he is driven off the premises after nearly 11 hours of questioning.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe arrest of the senior royal, eighth in line to the throne, is unprecedented in modern times,\u201d the agency wrote, adding that the former prince appeared \u201cvisibly shaken\u201d when he left the station.<\/p>\n
\u2018Crown wince\u2019 – NY Post<\/p>\n
The New York Post reported on the arrest with the wordplay \u201ccrown wince\u201d, sharing the photograph of \u201cwide-eyed\u201d Andrew in the back of a car after he was released under investigation.<\/p>\n
The US-based publication described him as \u201cshellshocked\u201d after hours of questioning over his ties to Epstein.<\/p>\n
Why Prince Andrew\u2019s Epstein arrest is King Charles\u2019 Watergate – Daily Beast<\/p>\n
The Daily Beast\u2019s European editor-at-large, Tom Sykes, compared the situation to Watergate.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the crisis now engulfing the monarchy were to end in abdication, the parallels with Watergate, which ended with Richard Nixon helicoptering out of the White House, would be unavoidable,\u201d Tom Sykes wrote in the Daily Beast.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the central question now is not simply what Prince Andrew did, but what King Charles knew and when he knew it. That question destroyed Richard Nixon. It could yet unseat a sovereign,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u2018Entitled Andrew\u2019s arrest is a stain that will live long in royal family\u2019s memory\u2019 – Russell Myers in The Daily Mirror<\/p>\n
Royal editor Russell Myers called Mountbatten-Windsor\u2019s arrest \u201ca disturbing and sorry state of affairs\u201d for the British royal family.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo matter what the outcome of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor\u2019s very public arrest and his questioning on serious allegations of misconduct in a public office, the very sight of multiple police cars turning up on the King\u2019s private estate, to arrest his own brother, is a stain that will live long in the memory,\u201d Myers wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen so much is done to carefully orchestrate a world of PR around the royals, they have been utterly undone by one of their own,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u2018No warning\u2019 – News.com.au <\/p>\n
Australia news site news.com.au says the royal family was blindsided by Mountbatten-Windsor\u2019s arrest, with the King being given no prior warning that the police operation would unfold.<\/p>\n
The site quotes Ailsa Anderson, a former press secretary for Mountbatten-Windsor\u2019s late mother Queen Elizabeth, who told the BBC: \u201cHe looked dazed, he looked shell-shocked, he was slouching down\u201d.<\/p>\n
Members of the media sit camped outside an entrance to Wood Farm on the royal family’s Sandringham Estate in Norfolk. Photo \/ AFP<\/p>\n
UK Government aware the arrest would take place – CNN<\/p>\n
While the King, according to multiple accounts, was none the wiser, CNN in the US reports that the UK Home Office was alerted by police chiefs that they would be arresting Mountbatten-Windsor for questioning.<\/p>\n
\u2018Andrew enters a new era \u2013 and Britain too\u2019 – Simon Jenkins in The Guardian<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happens next hardly matters: the mystique and awe surrounding the royals had been shattered. The former prince\u2019s arrest must change everything,\u201d Guardian columnist and BBC broadcaster Simon Jenkins wrote.<\/p>\n
The front page of The Sun newspaper with an image and joining story of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u2018Anguished\u2019 Andrew – El Pa\u00eds<\/p>\n
Reporting on the Reuters image that is circulating all over the world, Spanish newspaper El Pa\u00eds wrote that Mountbatten-Windsor looked \u201canguished\u201d as he left the police station after more than ten hours of questioning.<\/p>\n
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