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Looking haggard, shamed and haunted, Andrew is released from police custody 11 hours after his arrest plunged the modern monarchy into its gravest peril

A knock on the door at 8am on his 66th birthday – then arrested, driven to a police station and locked up in a bare cell...

THE splendour of Grade II-listed Royal Lodge would have felt a world away for Andrew Mountbatten­-Windsor yesterday when the heavy cell door clunked shut behind him in his far less ­ostentatious new digs.

Officers briefed the Home Office before dawn raid on royal estate

POLICE had briefed the Home Office about their plans to arrest Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the Daily Mail can reveal.

Tiny Norfolk town where he was grilled in custody

AYLSHAM is a historic market town with a population of 10,000.

What happens next after day of drama?

LIKE other sections of UK law, misconduct in public office is largely open to interpretation.

Emails they just could not ignore

In extraordinary detail, messages at heart of the misconduct case against ex-Prince

Lobbying firm founded by Mandy to shut down

PETER Mandelson’s lobbying company has collapsed in the wake of revelations about the disgraced former US ambassador’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Bad dogs and beheadings: Royal brushes with the law

THE former Prince Andrew’s arrest is extraordinary in modern times, but the Royal Family has a long and dramatic history of brushes with the law.

Richard Kay

Andrew’s fall may now be complete. The question is: Will he bring down the House of Windsor with him?

WOOD Farm occupies a ­special place in the lives of the Royal Family. It was where Prince Philip retired after giving up public duties and when the Queen joined him it was where they liked to reminisce, poring over old family photographs.

Virginia’s family: Our broken hearts have been lifted...

They applaud arrest as other victims call for more action against Epstein’s abusive friends

Why DID royals pay her £12million?

ANDREW Mountbatten-Windsor famously declared that he had no recollection of ever meeting Virginia Giuffre - a victim of his sex trafficking friend Jeffrey Epstein.

Keeping calm and carrying on... the King and Camilla on a day of royal strain

IN his historic statement yesterday the King vowed he and his family would ‘continue in our duty and service to you all’ while the legal process runs its course.

Starmer faces fresh Labour rebellion over special needs

KEIR Starmer could be facing yet another backbench rebellion over plans to strip back support for children with special educational needs and ­disabilities (SEND).

How our non-stop rain really DOES bring a weather front depression

IF THE relentless wet weather and grey skies are getting you down, you are not alone.

F1 ace Lando and model ‘put brakes on their romance’

THEY shared a passionate kiss in front of the cameras following his title win in Abu Dhabi just two months ago.

‘Healthy life’ span drops to a 10 year low

THE number of years people can expect to live healthily in the UK has fallen to its lowest for more than a decade amid a growing North-South divide.

Blair backs Trump’s Gaza peace board

TONY Blair last night endorsed Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan as ‘the only hope for Gaza, the region and the wider world’.

Very cold war

MEMBERS of 30 Commando IX Group, Shore Reconnaissance Troop practise a live-fire raid from the chilly waters of northern Norway. The Royal Marines stormed the beach from an inflatable raiding craft for an extraction-under-fire exercise amid ‘rising Russian threats’.

Our £1.2m loo roll

Couple sue developers over luxury flat where they ‘risked being tipped off the ill-fitting toilets’

Child poverty rate ‘over-inflated’

CHILD poverty figures are expected to be revised down after it emerged benefits claimants have been understating their payments.

Trump anger as UK blocks raid on Iran

President ‘may sink Chagos deal’ as PM refuses use of our airbases

I will fight eviction to the death, vows islander

A CHAGOS islander who has set up camp in his ancestral home vowed yesterday to fight British efforts to remove him, saying officials would ‘have to kill me’ before he leaves.

British couple jailed for 10 years in Tehran for spying

A BRITISH couple yesterday jailed for ten years in Iran for spying said they are ‘prepared to suffer’ with hunger strikes to show how badly they are being treated.

1 in 3 women avoid life-saving breast cancer screening

ALMOST a third of women snubbed life-saving breast cancer screenings last year despite the programme catching 20,000 cases.

AI is set to be disastrous for society, warns Google boss

THE world is teetering on the edge of an artificial intelligence disaster in which a tiny elite class live lavishly while the majority suffer, a former Google boss warned.

Guilty, climber who left girlfriend to die on peak

A CLIMBER who abandoned his girlfriend to die at the top of a freezing mountain was convicted of negligent manslaughter last night.

Vaccine for cold, flu and Covid is close, say scientists

A UNIVERSAL vaccine for cold, flu, Covid and allergies has moved a significant step closer, scientists believe.

One not very careful owner...

THE horse-drawn carriage graced by Margot Robbie in Wuthering Heights is up for sale on Autotrader – and can be yours for £100,000.

Starmer gets his woman

PM appoints first female head of the civil service ... despite allegations of bullying in her old job

Blue Peter boss leaves £3m in the will she made earlier

BLUE Peter icon Biddy Baxter left her £3.5million fortune to friends and charities.

Andrew Pierce

Nicknamed after a Farrow & Ball paint, why ‘Strong White’ is a woman not to be messed with!

DAME Antonia Romeo is known in the Foreign Office by the curious nickname ‘Strong White’. The sobriquet is not a reference to the Oxford-educated diplomat’s taste in coffee, neither to the strength of her ambitions - which have just seen the 51-year-old reach the very top of the Whitehall ladder.

Show of force

MUNITIONS workers present 50 rocket launchers to Kim Jong Un and the Ninth Congress of the Workers Party of Korea in Pyongyang, North Korea. The despotic leader later got behind the wheel of one of the trucks carrying the 600mm-calibre multiple launchers.

University’s £21m for students after Covid disrupted degrees

UNIVERSITY students whose studies were affected by the Covid-19 pandemic have won a £21million lawsuit.

No, Mr Bond... we expect you to squeak

MI5’s plan for trained gerbils to sniff out lying spies

Jailed, funeral bosses who left bodies to decompose

TWO funeral directors who left 46 bodies to decompose in a warm mortuary room for over a month were each jailed for four years yesterday.

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