Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested on Thursday, February 19 at The King's Sandringham estate, making him the first modern British royal to be taken into custody. But even though Thursday's police intervention made history, Andrew is not the first royal to have been arrested, as historian Jessica Storoschuk tells Marie Claire.
"Andrew's arrest is not the first in British history, nor is he the highest ranked royal to be arrested," the royal history expert says. Storoschuk points to King Charles I, who "was arrested in 1647 before his January 1649 execution in Whitehall," making him the last British royal to have been arrested until Andrew did 379 years later.
