Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on his birthday in dramatic police raid

Allegedly, neither the King nor Buckingham Palace was informed in advance of Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest.

The arrest follows allegations of misconduct in public office after police said they were assessing a complaint involving the alleged sharing of confidential material with late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

As reported by the Mail, emails released by the US Department of Justice seem to suggest that the former duke was circulating summaries of official visits to Honk Kong, Vietnam, and Singapore. In one email, dated November 2010, it appears that the information was forwarded by Andrew Mountbatten-