"Upon news that King Charles III's younger brother had been arrested broke early on Thursday, Manchester-based Noble began the six-hour drive south to Norfolk to cover the major story. Journalists knew the former prince had been arrested in Norfolk - the county that is home to the royal Sandringham estate where he resides. Since officers from Thames Valley Police were questioning him, there were potentially 20 or more police stations where he could have been held."
"Not much was going on, Noble said. There were a couple of other members of the media there, including Reuters video journalist Marissa Davison. Six or seven hours went by. Darkness fell. Still, nothing was happening. It seemed like this was the wrong station - after all, it was well over an hour's drive from Mountbatten-Windsor's home. The team of two Reuters journalists decided to book rooms at a hotel."
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office amid allegations he sent confidential government documents to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. He was released under investigation and photographed slumped in the back of his Range Rover as he left Aylsham police station; that image quickly went viral. Reuters photographer Phil Noble drove six hours from Manchester to Norfolk after news of the arrest and positioned himself at Aylsham following a tip-off. Noble and a Reuters colleague waited for hours at the station, briefly left to book hotel rooms, and then received word that Mountbatten-Windsor's cars had arrived.
Read at www.independent.co.uk
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