UK - (Former prince) Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested for suspicion of misconduct in public office, 19 February 2026

[imstilla.grandma]

Key points​

• Searches at Andrew's former home for third day after arrest View post
• His guards may have crucial information, former royal protection officer says View post
• Palace 'would never get in way' of plans to remove Andrew from succession View post
• British public overwhelmingly back dropping Andrew View post
• Explained: Who is in the royal line of succession? View post
• At Andrew's current home, media lie in wait for the next extraordinary snap, writes Lisa Dowd View post
• As a Canadian island named after Andrew is set to be renamed View post
• Live reporting by Nick Alipour
• Andrew latest: 'Inconceivable' Mountbatten-Windsor's guards didn't see anything, ex-royal protection chief says - as Canada to rename island

 

[Dotta]

(The easiest way to get AMW off the list of succession would be to make him become Catholic, if the Catholic Church would want him.)

RSBM

With due respect
Catholic Church is NOT a dumping site.
Let Church of England and Monarchy resolve the matter of succession as it is their problem.

Just saying as a Catholic hehehe

Besides,
I'm not sure this person belongs to any Church.
Church is community of the Faithful.
It is not a Club.

JMO

Ooops!
What about the Church of Flying Spaghetti for a certain individual???

Provided,
they would agree, that is.

 

[J. J. in Phila]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2025163033094336952

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That would take an act of Parliament.

They are already on shaky ground with removing his peerage (the dukedom, not the HRH style).

 

[J. J. in Phila]

The bar on Catholics was removed at the same time as the rule on male primogeniture in 2013 or 2015, but I don't believe the change was retrospective.

Partly. A Catholic cannot be in line, but their non Catholic decedents can be. Conviction of a crime is not a bar from being monarch.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

LONDON — King Charles III’ s brother was under arrest. Police were searching two royal properties, and news commentators were endlessly discussing the details of a sex scandal with tentacles that stretched to the gates of Buckingham Palace.

So how did Britain’s Royal Family spend Thursday afternoon? The king sat in the front row on the first day of London Fashion Week. Queen Camilla attended a lunchtime concert, and Princess Anne visited a prison.

The decision to continue normal royal duties was more than just an example of British stoicism in the face of the monarchy’s biggest crisis in almost a century. It was the opening act of the House of Windsor’s fight for survival as the arrest of the former Prince Andrew threatens to undermine public backing for the monarchy.

After pledging to support the police investigation into his brother’s friendship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the king stressed his intentions.

“My family and I will continue in our duty and service to you all,” he said in a statement signed “Charles R.,” using the abbreviation for Rex, the Latin word for king.

The Royal Family is in crisis, following Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest

King Charles III’ s brother was under arrest. Police were searching two royal properties, and news commentators were endlessly discussing the details of a sex scandal with tentacles that stretched to the gates of Buckingham Palace.

www.ctvnews.ca

Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest is not tied to ongoing allegations of sexual misconduct on his part, but it is related to revelations in the Epstein filesthat the royal sent trade reports to Jeffrey Epstein in 2010, while he was working for the British government. Thames Valley Police arrested King Charles’ brother on his 66th birthday on “suspicion of misconduct in public office.” He has been released under investigation, and the photograph of him leaving the police station made front page headlines across the U.K. on Friday. The impact of Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest extends beyond the U.K.’s borders, however, making international news, and an Epstein investigative reporter tells Rolling Stone the arrest of a royal can be seen as a sign that, at least outside of the States, nobody is above the law

What Former Prince Andrew's Arrest Says About the Royal Family: 'It's the Stuff of Nightmares'

A royals expert says Prince William has been instrumental in distancing the royal family from Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

www.rollingstone.com

 

[Lauri_]

Here is my question.....Why have there been no arrests, other the Maxwell person, in the United States? People cannot just walk away from this without consequences. Right?