How the UK is reacting to the arrest of former Prince Andrew
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🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | President Trump, meanwhile, is himself facing ongoing questions about the Epstein files. |
| 0:05.6 | He spoke about Andrew's arrest on his way to Georgia this afternoon. |
| 0:09.7 | I think it's a shame. I think it's very sad. I think it's so bad for the royal family. |
| 0:15.0 | It's a very, very sad. To me, it's a very sad thing. |
| 0:18.3 | For more on the fallout in the United Kingdom, I spoke earlier today with BBC Studio's |
| 0:22.9 | special correspondent, Caddy Kay. |
| 0:24.9 | Katty Kay, welcome back to the NewsHour. |
| 0:27.7 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 0:28.9 | Thank you for having me, Amna. |
| 0:30.7 | So this moment, the arrest of the brother of a monarch, just how extraordinary and |
| 0:37.0 | unprecedented a moment is this? Look, we've known for a while |
| 0:40.5 | that Andrew had this shadow over him. He'd lost his titles. He'd been alienated by the world family. |
| 0:45.8 | He wasn't showing up to Christmas events and holiday events. He didn't appear in any of the family |
| 0:49.8 | photographs anymore. So we knew that there was this cloud over ander. And yet I think despite that, |
| 0:55.3 | I can't tell you how stunned people were in the UK. I've been getting texts from people in the |
| 1:00.1 | UK all day saying, this is front page news. Is it front page news in the United States? Which clearly it is. |
| 1:06.1 | And it's because it is unprecedented. You have to go back to 1647 for a monarch to be arrested like this |
| 1:14.4 | in the United Kingdom. And I think there's now, of course, it begs a lot of questions about |
| 1:20.4 | the royal family. It puts a real spotlight on the process of the Epstein investigation. |
| 1:25.7 | And it raises questions about what is happening in the UK compared to what's happening |
| 1:30.3 | in the US. |
| 1:30.8 | But yes, everybody's stunned. |
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