Police search house linked to UK ex-prince
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Police are expected to continue searching Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's former home until Monday, the BBC understands.
The former prince was released from custody after 11 hours on Thursday night, following his arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office; he has previously denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein. As the UK police continue their investigation, prominent figures in the US ask whether they'll also see criminal investigations out of the Epstein files.
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(Photo shows a police van patrolling the area on 20 February 2026 where Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested on 19 February in Sandringham, Norfolk)
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| 0:16.3 | We have some breaking news, just as we are coming on air, and that is that the US Supreme Court, |
| 0:22.0 | this has been long away to this judgment. It has ruled against Donald Trump's global |
| 0:28.4 | tariffs enacted under a federal law meant for national emergencies. We'll have more on that |
| 0:35.3 | in the course of the program, but that's that ruling that has just come out of the US Supreme Court. |
| 0:41.9 | We're going to begin, though, with, well, rather strangely, we're beginning with what my internet looks like up on startup. |
| 0:48.7 | When I open the internet, I have the tabs from 10 international news websites open, and today, eight of them have as their splash lead, the exact same photograph of a jowly white-haired man, his eyes wide, his pupils bloodshot by a camera flash. |
| 1:07.0 | He's in the backseat of a car at a rather broad, slanting angle. He might think that he's relaxing, except his haunted expression suggests a different story |
| 1:16.0 | and the probability that he's trying to slump to sink out of sight of the battery of photographer's lenses. |
| 1:22.0 | The shot taken by a cameraman with the Reuters News Agency is of Andrew Mountbatten, Windsor, |
| 1:27.3 | as he's driven from a police |
| 1:28.5 | station in the east of England last night. The former Prince had spent the day in police custody |
| 1:32.9 | after being arrested on allegations that as Britain's trade envoy, he had shared his official |
| 1:37.1 | documents with the late sex offender and US financier Jeffrey Epstein. He has, Andrew has previously denied all wrongdoing. British detectives are |
| 1:48.0 | today continuing their searches of a property linked to the King's brother. In the meantime, questions |
| 1:53.0 | in the US are being raised about whether there should be more robust investigations there into those linked to Epstein. |
| 2:02.4 | This is what the president was asked to board Air Force One on Thursday. Do you think people in this country at some point, |
| 2:08.1 | associates of Jeffrey Epstein, will wind up in handcuffs too? Well, you know, I'm the expert in a way |
| 2:13.9 | because I've been totally exonerated. That's very nice. I can actually speak about it |
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