Andrew's Arrest
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested on his 66th birthday for "misconduct in a public office." This follows fresh Epstein files from sources I have not read like Justice.gov and handy email searches at Jmail.world . There have been house searches and interviews. Tthat's all we know as of 22 February 2026.
Epstein
I tried a few AI searches to find out what was wrong with Andrew's behavior. I mean, I'm slightly interested in sex clubs like most readers of news, even the ones who dress-up their interest in shock and horror, but what did he do wrong? I didn't read much about it. Well he hung around buildings with a lot of mid-teen girls in staff or intern roles who acted host—smiling, serving drinks, and being "inappropriate friends", to use his phrase. Their boss was said to like young girls.
The Girls
Some of the girls were quite thrilled to meet a prince, apparently, but their working conditions and they age they chose them weren't great.
Were these girls doing any education?
Was this a real job with prospects?
Was his lifestyle mis-sold to them? Were they too young to choose?
Could they avoid sex if not in the mood for what was offered?
Could they leave easily?
Could they confide in anyone?
Epstein pled guilty in 2008 to Florida charges of procuring a minor for prostitution—got 18 months (served 13 with work release). Federal sex trafficking charges hit in 2019; he died before trial. Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted in 2021 for sex trafficking a minor and conspiracy.
Andrew did nothing illegal but ignored the trafficking
Andrew did nothing illegal in Wikipedia. He guessed a girl's age correctly as 17 and above the age of consent in that state.
Andrew didn't see the girls' working conditions as his problem—just the age of consent. This is entirely in character with everything anyone says about Andrew: rude to servants, pompous on business trips (sacked as UK trade envoy), then carrying-on as trade envoy after being sacked but selling Kazak products despite Kazakhstan's human rights nightmare.
I'm complicit in something similar: I ignored working conditions
I type this on a Lenovo laptop with no origin label because UK lawmakers do not think it is my business to ask where something is made. Lenovo's web site and a quick search it's Chinese firm; four or its assembly factories are there, 80% parts typically from China. UK government provides no ready-reckoner to judge Chinese human rights, but there are clues online.
China is a country near the bottom of the league table for Democracy Index, and if there is ever any league table for human rights it won't be much higher on that - even if you leave out Tibet and Hong Kong that it has just taken over, and Taiwan that it says it wants to take over. If conditions aren't bad enough for Chinese, Tibetans, and Hong Kong people, Europe suffers a war funded by Chinese oil purchases and supported by Chinese combat gear and electronics. The president of China sat-in on the the last Kremlin arms parade. People like me are complicit because we don't like to think of the human rights of the people who make our products. We are technically legal, but the war and invasion threats and arrests go-on.
We're All Complicit
Kier Starmer just visited to boost trade. Our government's fine with it, so we're all funding the machine. One day, Chinese firms might tweak my search results as I write blog posts like this. What'll they say about princes, brothers of kings, or trading with dictators?
