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Speaker 1: Well, let's not beat around the bush. The biggest news

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Speaker 1: in the world right now is the arrest overnight our

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Speaker 1: time of Andrew, the brother of the King. It is huge,

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Speaker 1: not least because the last time that a royal was

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Speaker 1: arrested was three hundred and fifty years ago when Charles

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Speaker 1: the First was taken prisoner and then beheaded, but also

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Speaker 1: because Andrew wasn't, like in most cases involving celebrities, asked

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Speaker 1: to come into the police station and help them out

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Speaker 1: with an inquiry. He was arrested at his house, which

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Speaker 1: then police searched for more evidence. There is a massive

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Speaker 1: distinction between the two. I would say though, that anyone

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Speaker 1: predicting the collapse of the royal family, or to the contrary,

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Speaker 1: the survival of the royal family today, are being premature,

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Speaker 1: and there is a lot of that going on. The

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Speaker 1: charge that Andrew faces, which is misconduct and public office,

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Speaker 1: is apparently very hard to prove in the UK because

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Speaker 1: of the way that the law is written, so this

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Speaker 1: may actually end up going completely just nowhere. Really so far,

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Speaker 1: I would say Charles has handled the news and the

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Speaker 1: scandal leading up to today's news much more decisively than

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Speaker 1: even the late QUI handled Andrew's indiscretions, which does help

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Speaker 1: the royal family, and I think, most importantly, the most

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Speaker 1: important people in the Royal family being William and Kate

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Speaker 1: and their kids, seem far enough removed from anything Andrew

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Speaker 1: might have done to be safe. On the other hand,

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Speaker 1: what's happened today has a long way to go. This

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Speaker 1: is just the start. Next may come some charges, maybe

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Speaker 1: then a prosecution, maybe then a judge and a jury.

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Speaker 1: If that happens, then the risks to the Royal family

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Speaker 1: ramp up massively because of what may be discovered about

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Speaker 1: who knew what about his behavior for how many years.

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Speaker 1: But if you're looking for some good news and what

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Speaker 1: has happened today, it's that it's proved that the system works.

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Speaker 1: No one is above the law, not even the brother

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