There isn’t much out on this yet, so you’ll have a combination of articles to follow my ramblings on Pope Leo and Trump. It is a surprise, though. We thought the whole Epstein and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was done, finished, over. The slapback is still coming after Andrew, starting all those years ago, when he was sued by someone we think was Virginia Giuffre, although the girl’s name was never listed. Andrew just keeps going downhill. It truly is sad to see. With thanks to CNN:
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, younger brother of King Charles III, has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Police have not said what led them to arrest him, but he spent a decade as UK trade envoy. King Charles III issued a statement saying he learned “with the deepest concern” of the arrest of his younger brother and stressed that “the law must take its course.”
Oof. That pretty much says Andrew is on his own. This has been a huge embarrassment to the royal family, whether you like them or not. He should have stepped back years ago, rather than being forced into it. The mess would have been much smaller and easier to handle. But he didn’t, and here is where we (he) are today. What a depressing fall from grace.
Officers were pictured arriving at Mountbatten-Windsor’s home at Sandringham, King Charles’s estate in Norfolk. Police previously said the force was reviewing allegations that a woman was trafficked to the UK by Jeffrey Epstein to have a sexual encounter with Mountbatten-Windsor, and claims he shared sensitive information with Epstein while serving as envoy. The former prince has denied all accusations against him and insisted he never witnessed or suspected any of the behavior of which Epstein is accused. He has not commented publicly on these more recent allegations of misconduct in public office.
Okay, now that’s interesting. Is this another female? If so, it snuck up on all of us. We only had one girl confirmed regarding Andrew. Raw Story also had a few paragraphs on the arrest.
According to BBC News, the arrest came on the exact day the former prince turned 66 years old. While many details of the arrest remain unclear, it appears to be tied to years of suspicion about his involvement with deceased financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein — the controversy that ultimately led to him being stripped of his royal and military titles last year. According to British policing expert Danny Shaw, “the absolute longest the former prince can be held for is 96 hours — but this would require multiple extensions from senior police officers and a Magistrate’s Court. In most cases, suspects are held for 12 or 24 hours and are then either charged or released pending further investigation,” Shaw says.
Annnnd Bondi is being accused of a cover-up, and not just here. It’s partly about Andrew also, coming to you again, via Raw Story: (Are you having fun yet?)
Reacting to the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in the United Kingdom, presumably over his involvement with convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough went on an extended rant aimed at Attorney General Pam Bondi for her inaction after having the Epstein files for months. With King Charles throwing his support behind British law enforcement after the arrest of his younger brother, co-host Joe Scarborough exclaimed, “I mean, imagine what’s in those documents that are being held by Pam Bondi, who wouldn’t even turn around and look at the women who said they’re victims, wouldn’t even look at them? Do we trust Pam Bondi to give Americans information that would be negative to Republicans, to her boss, to other people in the administration?”
There is no way we can trust her. End sentence, period. It’s more than possible she’s covering for Andrew, too. Should Britain ask, we can be almost certain she would not give them anything, since she won’t even give information to Americans. So here we are. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. And Pam Blondi is covering up the Epstein (heh. I first typed Epstain. How appropriate.) files for the world. If we’re lucky, one of these days she’ll go down, too. Just for fun, here is what MTG has to say, and she did it well.
Marjorie Taylor Greene has responded to the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor by pointing out the relative lack of accountability in the United States for those with ties to Jeffrey Epstein. “The UK has arrested Andrew because of the Epstein files, and over here, the President signed an EO protecting cancer-causing Glyphosate in our foods and we have zero Epstein related arrest and investigations since release of the files,” Greene, the former Republican congresswoman from Georgia, said on X. “And we are on the verge of going to war against Iran. That’s the current state of MAGA and MAHA,” she added. [This is further down the page from CNN’s Andrew reporting.] See you soon!
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living in the UK, you will understand that the Royal Family being ‘heckled’ by members of the public is unprecedented. listen to –
@lbc for the facts you won’t get on the BBC
Of course, the background to that is that Britain has a functioning democracy, despite having a monarchy, (or perhaps because of?).
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/prince-andrew-arrest-epstein-monarchy-queen-5HjdSZq_2/
I like the Royals mostly. Obviously, that does *not* include Andrew. I did not intend to be discourteous. I’ll have top go look for lbc.
This will be extremely revealing if it goes to trial, which must have trump and Maxwell sweating. They will have collected his passport as a potential flight risk and he’ll likely be processed and released, pending further investigation and formal laying of charges. The “sharing of sensitive information” brings in a national secrets act that could put him away for the rest of his life, if his (alleged) pedophilia doesn’t do the job. You would have to go a long way back in British history to find a scandal and a stain as deep as this.
How many other shoes are ready to drop?
You have educated me today. I knew nothing of all that. I want workboots to drop on Trump’s head. From a great height. Low Earth orbit ought to do it, as long as we make sure they have heat shielding so they don’t burn up in atmosphere….
Wonder how long Donald Epstein can have the ever increasing hole in his ships midships questionably patched-up by that Bondi person, before it fails and sinks SS ‘P’OTUS. Andrew’s ‘not all tea and bikkies bind’ may morph into the spark that lights the wick on ‘P’OTUSs sordid powder keg.
Wouldn’t that be a lovely sight to see?
King Charles proved, once again, he is not corrupt and will not bail his brother out of this, or interfere in any way. What a good example that, of course, will be lost on our fearsome leader.
Exactly. Our fearsome ‘leader’ doesn’t acknowledge anything but himself. I was mortified when they went over last year. At least we have the UK hating him as much as we do. I want my very own balloon *snerk*
I had the honor to meet his dad and I had another unusual interaction with the royal family in London long long ago. I am not surprised that culturally the royal family approved his arrest. And I am not surprised that 47 will not allow his own arrest until he is not a king.
I would flail to meet Anne, Princess Royal. Then William and Catherine. Yes, I’m a fangirl on occasion. It seems to me that the Royals have had to deal with so much from Andrew through the years that they’re not doing any more. Let the law handle it because the law is (usually) impartial. I would be jumping up and down and squealing if I’d had the chance to meet Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip. Heh I’d have been so overawed I wouldn’t have dared speak.
If the US can just survive til we get 47 out of the White House, however it happens, we might be able to turn things around. There’s so much that has been lost. He’d never go to jail but he *might* go to court. Maybe. 47 needs to get gone.
Andrew Windsor-Mountbatten (ex Prince Andrew) arrested on misconduct in public office, Lord Mandelson a sure bet on similar charges, Sarkozy in France jailed, Bolsonaro in Brazil jailed, South Korean former president Yoon Suk Yeol jailed….. US MEH!!
In America, felons don’t get to be punished.
They get to be President.
I am right there with you on this one. ‘Nuff said.
It seems to me for Brits the Royal Family is a pleasant distraction. A way to have some pomp & circumstance detached from most political stuff there. A guilty pleasure if you will. In reality scandal has been part of it all – it’s just that Queen Elizabeth’s parents got things more or less under control, and though she had some missteps she managed to minimize scandal during her reign.
However her biggest screwup (I think) was forbidding Charles to marry Camilla. I can see why the Queen looked at the drab Camilla and thought ‘no way she should help Charles carry on the family line.’ Camilla has always been drab and undistinguished but hell, Charles was nuts about her. No one but him can figure out why. But the Queen (correctly) assessed Camilla wasn’t Queen(consort) material and forced Charles to marry Diana. Younger, brighter and as it turned out far more charismatic. Charles did his duty and produced offspring with her, all the while pining for his true love.
We’ll never know of course but maybe Elizabeth should have let Charles have his way. His sons were still quite young when their mom was killed in that car crash. It affected them both deeply which I understand. I was older (18) when I lost my mom to cancer and entering adulthood without her was a lot more difficult than it would have been. My own dad was like Charles during those years, distant.
Charles protected his P.O.S. brother for too long and it’s tearing at the foundation of the Royal family. He also failed with his sons – especially William. Not that Harry helped by labeling himself “Spare” (an heir to the throne in case something happened to his older brother) but as an outsider I’ve long felt there was a fair amount of jealousy on William’s part. HE was destined to a life being groomed to be King and therefore unable to indulge in some of the slightly more relaxed lifestyle Harry could enjoy. I think it’s possible it evoked some resentment from the both of them. More from William, but Harry probably at times took exception to his brother who would someday be King dressing him down.
Even more petty, I think William resents the hell out of Harry’s military service. Men in the Royal family have always served, and even in wartime weren’t tucked away in some staff job in London. Hell, even the Queen served (much to her parent’s initial dismay) as an auto mechanic in a motor pool! Both William and Harry did their stints at Sandhurst (a less than year long cross between Officer Candidate School and our Military Academies in the U.S.) and became officers. The difference was that Harry actually went to war, flying helicopter missions in a war zone. They tried to keep his deployment secret both for his protection and his unit’s. Someone spilled the beans however (I say William engineered it) and Harry had to be withdrawn from the front lines. NOT however before earning decorations his big brother never earned.
I say proof of this petulance was Harry not being given permission to wear his uniform (and medals) during the Queen’s funeral events. Even freaking Princess Anne got to walk in uniform but Harry was forced to march in “civvies.” THAT is pure jealous petulance. Harry of course had already broken off over the treatment his American wife got from the Palace staff who gave tabloids all manner of gossip which they gleefully published. Charles tried to broker a reconcilliation but William was having NONE of it.
Credible reporting indicates as far as William is concerned Harry is dead to him. He probably won’t want to create an uproar by excluding Harry from Charles’ funeral when the time comes but that will be the LAST time the two are in the same zip code. The older he gets, the more of an asshole William is becoming. I predict folks in the UK who are already questioning whether the cost of the trappings of the Monarchy is worth it will in increasing numbers show contempt for William’s rule. And that will be the end of the Monarchy.
Harry misses home. He misses his brother. IF William would help repair his and his wife’s reputation with the tabloids Harry and Megan could move back, or at least split their time between the US and the UK. Even on a limited basis become working Royals again. William simply isn’t going to allow it, despite his own wife’s (the ONLY person he seems to have a soft spot for) attempt to broker some sort of reconcilliation.
The Monarchy is in the ICU, and once Charles dies it will be on its deathbed.