"He has been accompanied by police since he was a boy going to school. But nothing in his life of supervised privilege would have prepared him - or his family, or his country - for the ride he took Thursday morning. The unmarked cars arrived early on a gray Norfolk morning at Sandringham estate, that most English of royal retreats, where monarchs have gone to hunt, to grieve and to die."
"The moment that Thames Valley Police confirmed what the BBC had already broadcast to a stunned nation - that Mountbatten-Windsor, former prince, former Duke of York, former favorite son of the late Queen Elizabeth II and former friend of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, was in custody on suspicion of misconduct in public office - the British monarchy crossed a threshold it had not approached in nearly four centuries."
Unmarked police cars arrived at Sandringham early on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's 66th birthday and took him into custody on suspicion of misconduct in public office. The arrest makes him the first senior royal detained since King Charles I in 1647 and represents a watershed moment for the monarchy. The institution has previously weathered scandals such as abdication, divorce and Princess Diana's death by adapting. Widespread leaks related to Jeffrey Epstein, the speed of social media, and declining support among younger Britons intensify pressure and raise questions about whether the Crown can survive this crisis.
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