"For more than 10 hours after the news broke that detectives had taken the unprecedented step to arrest Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, there was total silence from police and the former prince himself. Then at 7pm, news that he had been released from a police station in Norfolk emerged, accompanied by a paparazzi-style image of the former prince slumped in the back of a car. The image landed on front pages across the globe."
"The photo gods were on my side, he said on Friday, describing it as a little bit surreal. It was one of those kind of pinch me' moments where you look at the back of the camera, you're tired, it's been a long day, you know you've got him. And then I said to my colleague: Can you just double check? Is this him?' Because you want to make sure. You can't believe that you've got him as well as I did."
"He told Reuters there were 20 police stations where Mountbatten-Windsor could have been, but after a tipoff, he headed to the station in the historic market town of Aylsham. Hours passed and Noble had made the decision to pack up and start heading to a local hotel, but moments later he was called back: Mountbatten-Windsor's cars had arrived. This moment as a photographer is terrifying, the chance of getting a well-exposed, sharp image from a moving vehicle in complete darkness is like winning the lottery."
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested and later released from a Norfolk police station, with an image of him slumped in a car appearing on global front pages. Reuters photojournalist Phil Noble drove six hours to Norfolk after a tip, located Aylsham station among many possibilities, waited through hours of silence, then captured the decisive frames when the cars arrived. Noble shot six frames in darkness from a moving vehicle, with several frames unusable and one final clear image. The photograph was widely reproduced and discussed. Noble described the moment as surreal and likened securing a sharp, well-exposed image under those conditions to winning the lottery.
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