Ed Luce: The Simple Fact of Prince Andrew’s Arrest ‘Is a Huge Milestone’

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LUCE: "No. I mean, as you showed with that clip from Emily Maitlis, it’s been 379 years since a royal was arrested down there. Royal Charles I was executed for treason. That’s not going to happen in this case. And we don’t even know whether he’s going to be charged. But the simple fact of his arrest, I think, is a huge milestone. And the fact that the investigation is ongoing is a really big milestone. It should be sort of mentioned that the way that Prince Andrew got to know, former Prince Andrew got to know Epstein was when he became a trade envoy for the U.K. in 2001 for about a decade. And at the time, his brother, the Prince of Wales, Charles, strenuously lobbied Tony Blair not to appoint Andrew as a trade envoy, because I think he knew that he was known as a playboy by the tabloids. He knew he'd just jet around the world, hang out with autocrats, people in golf courses and gin palaces, etc., and misuse it. And Blair overruled and appointed him, and we saw what happened.”