Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor Arrested
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Today, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested and is in custody on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
King Charles says he "learned with the deepest concern" of Andrew's arrest, adding "the law must take its course" - Prince William and Catherine are understood to support the statement.
Andrew, who turns 66 today, has previously denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein; he has not responded to the BBC's requests for comment on the specific allegations in relation to the release of millions of Epstein files in January
Adam and Laura are joined by royal correspondent Jonny Dymond and home and legal correspondent Dominic Casciani.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.8 | Big news on the royal front. So we've assembled some big newsmakers. Here in the studio is |
| 0:10.8 | Johnny Diamond, our royal correspondent. Hello, Johnny. Hello, Adam. And also on the line, |
| 0:14.7 | making a rare weekday appearance, because so big is the news. It's Laura Kay. Hello, Laura. |
| 0:19.3 | Hello, Adam. What a story. Well, I remember |
| 0:22.4 | last autumn, Laura, when this was all sort of starting to brew again, you and I having a |
| 0:28.1 | conversation about, oh, will the taboo about even talking about the royal family in the House of Commons |
| 0:32.6 | be broken? And this now just seems like a whole other universe to that. Yeah, that same is a lifetime ago, doesn't it? |
| 0:38.4 | And yeah, we talked about that. |
| 0:39.7 | We wrote about that at the time. |
| 0:41.0 | There was this sense of, is that shift beginning in politics? |
| 0:45.0 | We're after decades of being allergic to making the merest tiny word comment about the |
| 0:50.7 | royal family in any way, shape or form, well, taboos have been broken all over |
| 0:55.0 | the place, not least this arrest, which, unless there's something that isn't out there |
| 0:59.7 | in the public domain that none of us know about, is the first time there's been an arrest of a |
| 1:04.0 | royal or somebody in line for the throne, but since King Charles was arrested back of the 17th |
| 1:09.4 | century. And actually, Johnny, if you look back at the long, long history of the country talking about |
| 1:14.1 | the royal family, there was an era when there'd be a bit of tiptoeing around. |
| 1:17.7 | That era ended a long time ago. |
| 1:19.5 | But this is such a long way from that. |
| 1:22.2 | The deference times. |
| 1:24.3 | No, this is, I mean, this is, it's absolutely astonishing. |
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