Hello, hello, everyone. This is Lizzie O'Leary with a special breaking news edition of The Discourse.

Our every other week deep dive into the topics that are burning up your feed and possibly also setting your hair on fire.

At this point, who knows? Today, we are going to England, where someone is actually facing consequences after

appearing in the Epstein files. Who knew? Police arrested the former Prince Andrew this morning on

suspicion of, quote, misconduct while in office. Here to help me unpack what that means is Imogen West Nights. She is a

slate contributing writer based in London. Imogen, thank you for letting us interrupt your dinner.

Not at all. Welcome to England on this momentous day. You have been on what might be

depressingly termed the former Prince beat for a while now. Can you remind our

listeners who Andrew is? Sure, yes. Well, I mean just Andrew these days. Andrew, Mount

Batten Windsor, as he now stars himself, was Prince Andrew, the now King Charles's brother, who has had a shocker of a decade now, meeting some consequences for alleged sex crimes.

Although this crime, as you say, is not one of those. It's to do with

his time spent as a special trade envoy. Hmm. So that feels a bit like getting Al Capone for

tax evasion. It's very much that kind of a thing, yeah. It's like, you know, in some ways it's

frustrating that this is the thing that he's being charged with.

But I would not be surprised if it's the first of some other forthcoming alleged.

I'm having to sort of allegedly, allegedly, allegedly, allegedly.

Right, allegedly.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yes.

Can you remind us of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor's ties to Jeffrey Epstein, at least what has been known for a while?

And I guess how enmeshed he was in Epstein's universe based on what we know that has come out from the various releases of files and from the testimony of survivors.

Yeah, so I mean, it depends that you ask.

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