{"id":16668,"date":"2026-02-20T06:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=16668"},"modified":"2026-02-20T06:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:50:15","slug":"former-prince-andrew-arrested-by-uk-police-over-epstein-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=16668","title":{"rendered":"Former prince Andrew arrested by UK police over Epstein ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s former prince Andrew\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/world\/587358\/uk-police-arrest-king-charles-brother-andrew-over-misconduct-relating-to-epstein\">has been arrested overnight<\/a>\u00a0over allegations he sent confidential government documents to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>King Charles&#8217; younger brother &#8211; now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor after he was<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/world\/580619\/former-prince-andrew-mountbatten-windsor-stripped-of-remaining-titles\">stripped by his older brother of his titles and honours<\/a>\u00a0last October &#8211; was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office on Thursday, his 66th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>The second son of the late Queen Elizabeth is now in police custody. He has always denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein, and said he regrets their friendship.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s former prince Andrew\u00a0has been arrested overnight\u00a0over allegations he sent confidential government documents to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. King Charles&#8217; younger brother &#8211; now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor after he wasstripped by his older brother of his titles and honours\u00a0last October &#8211; was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news","category-world"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16669,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16668\/revisions\/16669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}