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Andrew
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from his
residence
on the
Sandringham
Estate
in
Norfolk,
east
England,
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Thursday.
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Epstein
Class
Investigation
Update:
Prince
Andrew's
Dramatic
Arrest
Patricia
Romero -
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LONDON
-- In a
stunning
escalation
of the
long-festering
Jeffrey
Epstein
scandal,
Andrew
Mountbatten-Windsor,
the
disgraced
former
Prince
Andrew,
was
arrested
Thursday
morning
on
suspicion
of
misconduct
in
public
office,
marking
the
first
criminal
detention
of a
high-ranking
British
royal in
modern
history.
Thames
Valley
Police
swooped
in on
his
Norfolk
estate
at
Sandringham—on
what
happened
to be
his 66th
birthday—hauling
the
once-flashy
trade
envoy
into
custody
while
officers
ransacked
properties
in
Berkshire
and
Norfolk
for
evidence.
This
bombshell
comes
hot on
the
heels of
freshly
unsealed
U.S.
Justice
Department
files
exposing
emails
from
2010,
where
Andrew
brazenly
forwarded
sensitive
trade
reports
from
trips to
Vietnam,
Hong
Kong,
and
Shenzhen
straight
to
Epstein,
the
convicted
sex
trafficker
he'd
sworn to
have cut
ties
with
post-2008.
The
allegations
cut
deeper
than
mere
gossip:
prosecutors
are
probing
whether
Andrew,
then
Britain's
international
trade
ambassador,
betrayed
public
trust by
leaking
confidential
intel—including
a
bombshell
brief on
Afghan
investment
opportunities
in
war-torn
Helmand
Province—to
a
pedophile
financier
serving
time for
child
procurement.
Virginia
Giuffre's
family,
still
reeling
from her
tragic
suicide
last
April
after
securing
a $16
million
civil
settlement
from
Andrew
in 2022
(which
he
denied
but paid
without
admission
of
guilt),
hailed
the
arrest
as a
vindication:
"Our
broken
hearts
have
been
lifted—no
one is
above
the law,
not even
royalty."
Her
lawyer,
Sigrid
McCawley,
called
it a
"monumental
moment"
in the
survivors'
fight
for
accountability,
echoing
years of
accusations
that
Epstein
trafficked
the teen
Giuffre
to
Andrew
for
abuse in
London.
King
Charles
III,
Andrew's
brother,
broke
his
silence
with a
measured
nod to
justice,
vowing
the
royal
family's
"full
and
wholehearted
support"
for
police
while
stressing
a "full,
fair and
proper
process."
Stripped
of his
HRH
title
last
year
amid the
Epstein
stench,
Andrew
now
faces a
charge
carrying
life
imprisonment
if
prosecuted—misconduct
in
public
office
demands
proof he
willfully
abused
his
position
for
personal
or
Epstein's
gain. As
Norfolk
and
Thames
Valley
forces
dig
through
seized
documents,
whispers
of
parliamentary
probes
and
official
secrets
breaches
swirl;
Buckingham
Palace
stonewalls,
but the
Epstein
files'
drip-drip
revelations
have
shredded
any
royal
immunity
pretense.
This
isn't
just
Andrew's
downfall—it's
a
reckoning
for the
palace
shadows
where
power
and
perversion
long
danced
unchecked.
Stay
tuned;
the
custody
clock
ticks,
and the
truth
may yet
detonate
the
House of
Windsor.
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