The brother of King Charles III and former Prince Andrew was arrested by police after he appeared in the Epstein files released by the DOJ.
Specifically, he was arrested for sharing “confidential government information with the late American sex offender when the royal worked as a British trade envoy.”
Here’s more from CBS News:
The former Prince Andrew, now Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, was arrested Thursday for suspected misconduct in public office after revelations in the Jeffrey Epstein files. King Charles III’s younger brother was arrested on his 66th birthday, about two weeks after an anti-royal organization called for police to investigate documents indicating that Andrew shared confidential government information with the late American sex offender when the royal worked as a British trade envoy.
The Thames Valley Police force confirmed just over a week ago that it was assessing claims against Mountbatten-Windsor that emerged in the latest release of Epstein files by the U.S. Justice Department to determine whether a formal investigation was warranted.
In a statement on Thursday, the Thames Valley Police confirmed that, “as part of the investigation, we have today (19/2) arrested a man in his sixties from Norfolk on suspicion of misconduct in public office and are carrying out searches at addresses in Berkshire and Norfolk.” It said the man, who it did not name in line with police procedures, “remains in police custody at this time.”
If Andrew is eventually charged with misconduct in public office, the offense carries a maximum possible sentence of life in prison in Britain.
“This is the king’s brother who has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office — the first senior royal to ever be arrested,” Roya Nikkhah, the royal editor of Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper, told “CBS Mornings,” stressing that it was “quite a moment” in history.
Because of former Prince Andrew’s arrest, video has now resurfaced of President Trump calling him out in early 2015, well before he announced his campaign for president.
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Trump knew back then what a cesspool Epstein’s island was and how Prince Andrew was involved in it all. And yet Democrats tried to claim all this time a connection between Trump and Epstein’s island. This just proves what Trump has been saying all along, that he never had anything to do with Epstein once he found out the truth about him.