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Speaker 1: Oh, why would you want to be? The drama continues

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Speaker 1: to the UK with correspondence Gavin Gray Morning Fiver, Luke,

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Speaker 1: what do we know?

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Speaker 2: Oh, well, eight am local time Prince Andrew as was

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Speaker 2: and Andrew Mountbatten Windsor as he is now received a

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Speaker 2: knock on the door. It's his sixty sixth birthday today.

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Speaker 2: The eighth in line to the throne would not have

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Speaker 2: been expecting police officers at his door, but that's what happened.

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Speaker 2: He was then arrested. The police are currently doing searches

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Speaker 2: of two properties in Berkshire. We believe that to be

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Speaker 2: the home he's moving out of near Windsor Castle and

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Speaker 2: the home that he I think was currently living in,

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Speaker 2: which is on the King's estate in the east of

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Speaker 2: England at Sandringham. We now know he is still in

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Speaker 2: custody and that is going to be almost twelve hours

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Speaker 2: eleven hours fifteen since he was first arrested. We're told

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Speaker 2: that this is on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Luke.

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Speaker 2: What that basically means is there is this claim, this

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Speaker 2: allegation which Prince Andrew as was Andrew maunt Batten Winter

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Speaker 2: strongly denies that in his unofficial role as a trade envoy,

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Speaker 2: he mixed with ministers and saw confidential information about what

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Speaker 2: the government was planning to do. In the latest release

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Speaker 2: of files from the Jeffrey Epstein thing, there was claims

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Speaker 2: that he had sent some to Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey Epstein

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Speaker 2: was a businessman, of course, and that confidential information could

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Speaker 2: have been worth a lot of money to people in

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Speaker 2: the right places, and so I think that's what this

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Speaker 2: allegation is all about. But as I said, Andrew mount

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Speaker 2: Batten Winter denies these allegations.

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Speaker 1: Of course, there's been rather grotty allegations before this, again

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Speaker 1: sented around Jeffrey Epstein. So this is completely secret again

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Speaker 1: what he's faced with.

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Speaker 2: Hi, yes, yes, that's right. And amazingly of the different

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Speaker 2: police forces around the UK, no less than six of

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Speaker 2: them are investigating different allegations about Andrew mount Batten Wins.

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Speaker 2: So some of those will be about potentially this kind

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Speaker 2: of business shenanigans. Others will also be about this fear

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Speaker 2: that women were traffic through the UK by Epstein, whether

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Speaker 2: or not then Prince Andrew was involved or not. But

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Speaker 2: as I said, he completely denies these allegations. The police

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Speaker 2: in theory could hold him for up to four days,

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Speaker 2: but to do that they would have to basically have

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Speaker 2: multiple extensions granted to a court. At the moment, probably

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Speaker 2: twenty four hours is the best bet. So we'll see

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Speaker 2: what happens over the next few hours.

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Speaker 1: We understand there's no charges yet, say there is. What's

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Speaker 1: he facing? Is this serious stuff?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Very serious because effectively you are working against your

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Speaker 2: own country. Now that would be absolutely unheard off from man.

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Speaker 2: That is extremely patriotic. But also of course somebody that

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Speaker 2: did fight in the Falklands War four. At that time

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Speaker 2: queenlan Country Andrew was well known as being the Queen's favorite.

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Speaker 2: And I can't help but wonder as King Charles has

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Speaker 2: continued to talk about how he wants his brother treated

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Speaker 2: no differently than anyone else when it comes to the

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Speaker 2: law courts, and today has been out and about King

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Speaker 2: Charles in duty and service, as he called it, business

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Speaker 2: as usual. But I can't help but think is his

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Speaker 2: reign King Charles the Third going to be absolutely overshadowed

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Speaker 2: by his brother.

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Speaker 1: You can pick your friends, you can't pick your family.

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Speaker 1: King Charles will be regretting that at the moment. And

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Speaker 1: no doubt the former Prince Andrew will be regretting the

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Speaker 1: friends that he's mixed with her. Tell you what the

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Speaker 1: next season of the Crown is writing itself. Cheers for

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Speaker 1: your time, UK correspondent given grat