Former Prince Andrew arrested over ties to Epstein and suspicion of misconduct in public office, according to DOJ-released files
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The police arrested Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor —the younger brother of King Charles III, stripped of his royal titles in October 2025— at the Wood Farm estate on the Sandringham property in Norfolk, exactly on the day he turned 66 years old.
The detention occurred under suspicion of misconduct in public office, a crime that in the United Kingdom can carry life imprisonment.
The police confirmed that the detainee remains in custody and that searches are being carried out at properties in Berkshire and Norfolk, including the former Royal Lodge in Windsor.
The facts motivating the investigation come directly from the millions of documents, images and videos from the Epstein case released by the United States Department of Justice in January 2026, under the Epstein Files Transparency Act promoted during the Trump administration.
Those files revealed emails from November and December 2010 in which Mountbatten-Windsor, then the United Kingdom’s special envoy for trade and investment, forwarded to Jeffrey Epstein —already convicted of sexual offenses— official reports on his visits to Singapore, Hong Kong and Vietnam, in addition to a confidential report on investment opportunities in southern Afghanistan, where British troops were operating.
The documents indicate that he sent those materials minutes after receiving them from his special advisor, without an additional message in some cases, and requesting in others Epstein’s opinion on whom to show them to.
Previously we had reported it in Gateway Hispanic when the first massive revelations from those files began to arrive.
Mountbatten-Windsor has always denied any irregularity in his relationship with Epstein, including the out-of-court settlement of 2022 with Virginia Giuffre (who passed away in 2025), in which he paid approximately 16 million dollars without admitting responsibility.
🚨 BREAKING: Prince Andrew ARRESTED over ties to Epstein and suspicion of misconduct in public office, after Trump DOJ drops the files
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 19, 2026
The house of cards is CRASHING DOWN!
Anyone who committed crimes with Epstein MUST be arrested!
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However, the release of the files under the transparency law signed in the Trump era has uncovered details that the British police could not ignore.
An anti-monarchist group filed a formal complaint based on those emails, and Thames Valley Police opened the assessment that culminated today in the detention.King Charles III issued a brief but forceful statement: “The law must take its course.”
Buckingham Palace affirmed that the royal family will fully cooperate with the authorities. This is the first arrest of a member of the British royalty in centuries for a crime of this nature, and it marks a turning point: the elites are no longer above the law when transparency is truly imposed.
The house of cards built over decades to protect the powerful linked to Epstein is collapsing. Thanks to the determination of the Trump administration to declassify all the material, today we see real action where before there was only silence and under-the-table deals.
Anyone who has committed crimes with Epstein —whether by leaking sensitive state information or participating in criminal activities— must answer to justice, without exceptions or privileges.
This case is not only British: it is a global signal that the era of impunity for the international jet set linked to the predator Epstein has ended. The Trump Department of Justice opened Pandora’s box and now the consequences reach the heart of the European monarchies.
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