Not the best way to celebrate your 66th birthday. A fleet of vehicles from Thames Valley Police turned up at breakfast time to arrest Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, once second in line to the throne, on suspicion of misconduct in a public office.

Mountbatten-Windsor has not so far been charged and, even if he is, innocent until proven guilty remains a vital principle in our justice system.

As the former Labour cabinet minister Peter Mandelson noted, close association with Jeffrey Epstein is like dog dirt on a shoe – almost impossible to get rid of. The stench is besmirching not just the individuals most closely involved but the way the Royal Family and the Government go about their work.

Andrew was already a ruined man before this morning with no titles or home – except the modest farmhouses which his brother King Charles III has grudgingly leant him.

The Epstein files seemed to confirm that much of what Andrew told Emily Maitlis in his notorious Newsnight interview was not true. The convicted sex-trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, who was there, insinuated in an email that the photograph of Mountbatten-Windsor with his........

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