Nearly three months have passed since Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, held for eleven hours, and then released “under investigation” — a phrase that, in practical terms, means precisely nothing has happened.
He was photographed slouched in the back of his chauffeur-driven car, leaving Aylsham police station in Norfolk, staring into space, and that image was supposed to mark the beginning of…well, something.
The first arrest of a senior royal in modern British history. The brother of the King, if not in handcuffs, at least in the back of a police car! It was the great comeuppance for the vile man who once occupied thirty rooms at Royal Lodge and had the run of Windsor Great Park.
Phil Noble’s astonishing image (Reuters)
And since then? Silence.
I sat down with the royal biographer Andrew Lownie — whose book Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York is about to land in updated paperback with sensational new material — for a long conversation on my YouTube channel about precisely this question: will Andrew ever actually face justice?
Andrew Lownie’s answer was unequivocal. No. He will not. And the more I think about it, the more convinced I am that he’s right.