00:00King Charles' younger brother, the former Prince Andrew, was released from police custody
00:05Thursday evening after his arrest.
00:07Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is suspected of misconduct in public office over allegations
00:12he sent confidential government documents to convicted child offender Jeffrey Epstein.
00:17The arrest comes after the US Department of Justice released 3 million pages of documents
00:21relating to Epstein, who was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008.
00:26Those files suggested Mountbatten-Windsor had forwarded to Epstein reports about countries
00:30he had visited as trade envoy.
00:33Andrew is the second son of the late Queen Elizabeth.
00:36The arrest of the senior royal, eighth in line to the throne, is unprecedented in modern times.
00:41King Charles said in a statement, let me state clearly, the law must take its course.
00:46Mountbatten-Windsor has always denied any wrongdoing and said he regrets his friendship with Epstein.
00:51He was stripped of his Prince title and booted out of Windsor in 2025.
00:56In 2022, Mountbatten-Windsor settled a civil lawsuit where he was accused of sexually abusing a teenager
01:02at properties owned by Epstein.
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