I've got quite a lot of material from intelligence officials talking about his involvement

and how he's been compromised by Russian intelligence.

How do you think he's feeling? You know, at this point he is literally being crucified.

It has become like a bloodsport. No one's actually thinking about, okay, what is his mental health?

Do you have any way the United States to compel Andrew to testify to Congress?

I really don't care, to be honest with you.

But you care about the victims, I presume, of your brother?

These are the questions I don't get into. Have a good day.

The arrest of Andrew Mountbatten, Windsor, is an historic bomb into. Have a good day.

The arrest of Andrew Mountbatten, Windsor, is an historic bombshell.

As the instantly iconic front pages lay bare, you have to go back almost 400 years to the first King Charles to find anything else quite like it.

And it's raising some uncomfortably existential questions about our way of life.

The whole reason the monarchy works as a system of government is that it's supposed to be above

the political fray. The monarch answers to nothing and no one but the people and the idea of the

nation-state. We don't put the royals through parliamentary inquiries and cross-examinations because the moment we do,

they're not royals anymore in any meaningful sense and they don't have to routinely explain themselves

because for the most part they don't have practical duties which demand explanation.

That's how it all somehow holds together in a classically British fudge.

The politicians do all the dirty work.

We can change them if we like.

The royals, though, are a constant.

They represent all things to all people and serve as a woolly but vital symbol

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