
The photograph caused the initial impact. Andrew Mountbatten‑Windsor, eyes caught by the flash, slumped in the back seat of a car as if the air had been knocked out of him. In a monarchy built on choreography, it was a brutally modern image, more tabloid than tableau, and it revealed something Buckingham Palace had spent years trying to avoid: the spectacle of a royal treated like everyone else.
The UK’s former prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was filmed leaving a police station on Thursday night, following his arrest related to the Epstein files. pic.twitter.com/Hc2doTEEiy
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) February 20, 2026