Evening summary
Here is a summary of the day’s main news lines:
Detectives have urged Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s former close protection officers to “consider carefully whether anything they saw or heard” is relevant to their investigation into paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein and his associates.
The Metropolitan Police said it was also working with counterparts in the US to establish whether London airports had been used to “facilitate human trafficking and sexual exploitation”.
MPs have called for parliament to consider whether Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor should lose his potential right to inherit the throne in the aftermath his arrest.
The Princess Royal continued with her engagements on Friday with a visit to a crisp factory in Sheffield. Anne did not respond when a reporter shouted: “Afternoon your royal highness, how do you feel about your brother’s arrest?”.
Police said they are continuing their search of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s former residence in Berkshire. He was released from custody after being held by police for more than 10 hours. He has not been charged with any offence.
Police have concluded searches at Mountbatten-Windsor’s home on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, where he was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
Calls are growing for Mountbatten-Windsor to be removed from the line of succession for the throne. He is currently eighth in line but some MPs have suggested he should be removed or give up his place, with one Tory minister saying it would be “the decent thing” to do.
A photograph of the royal emerging from a police station was splashed on newspapers around the world. Phil Noble, the Manchester-based Reuters photographer who captured the photo last night, said: “When you’re doing car shots it’s more luck than judgment.”
The Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, described Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest as an “extraordinary fall from grace” but says it won’t prompt another referendum on Australia becoming a republic. In his first comments about the arrest, Albanese told the Guardian’s Australian Politics podcast that referendums “are hard to pass” in his country.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been released under investigation after police questioned the former prince in relation to allegations he shared confidential material with Jeffrey Epstein.
Officers searched Mountbatten-Windsor’s Sandringham residence as well as his former home at the Royal Lodge in Great Windsor Park after arresting him on Thursday.
The former prince has denied any wrongdoing. But what were the police searching for and what could happen next?
Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s police and crime correspondent, Vikram Dodd…
