The King has said ‘the law must take its course’ after expressing his ‘deepest concern’ over the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

Charles III revealed that the police will have his ‘wholehearted support and co-operation’ after his younger brother was held on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

Calling for a ‘full, fair and proper process’, the King added: ‘My family and I will continue in our duty and service to you all’.

The disgraced former Duke of York was held on his 66th birthday today and is in custody at a secret location after a morning raid on his new Norfolk home was first revealed by the Daily Mail.

He can be held without charge for 24 hours, which begins upon arrival at a police station.

Here are the latest pictures we can show you from Sandringham where Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested this morning.

Officers have remained stationed outside the former Duke of York’s home as searches are carried out in Norfolk and at his former Royal Lodge home in Windsor.

Andrew was taken into custody at an undisclosed location earlier after he was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

David Stern pictured with Sarah Ferguson and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

by Elizabeth Haigh

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor ‘pushed through’ the appointment of Jeffrey Epstein’s fixer to the board of a Windsor Castle trust despite opposition from members, it was claimed today.

The former prince, who turns 66 today, is said to have ‘imposed’ David Stern, a close confidant of the paedophile financier, on board members of the St George’s House Trust in 2016.

German businessman Stern features in at least 7,461 documents in the Epstein files and is seen in a photograph alongside Andrew and ex-wife Sarah Ferguson.

The 48-year-old is understood to have been introduced to the former Duke and Duchess of York in 2009 by Epstein, and went on to become a close friend of the couple.

Documents released in the files appear to show that Stern accompanied Andrew on trips to China and southeast Asia during his time as a trade envoy and served as a director of Andrew’s Pitch@Palace startup from 2017 to 2019.

When Stern, who described Epstein as ‘my boss’, was proposed to the board by Andrew, other members are said to have raised concerns about his background.

This Morning host Alison Hammond has been blasted for making a ‘moronic’ comment about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest live on air.

The ITV star was joined by Dermot O’Leary, Nick Ferrari and Sonia Sodha for the news segment of the breakfast show when talk turned to the arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

Talking about the breaking news story at the start of the show, Alison, 51, was quick to offer up her opinion on Mountbatten-Windsor being arrested on his birthday.

She told her co-stars: ‘They could’ve done it yesterday, the day before his birthday.’

Alison continued: ‘It is developing, we don’t know very much beyond what you’ve just said. All we know is that police can tell you.’

Viewers of the ITV series immediately flooded social media platform X, formerly Twitter, to hit back against Alison’s comment, calling it ‘weird’.

Misconduct in public office is notoriously difficult to define, let alone prove, with only 191 people convicted between 2014 and 2024.

Authorities will have to find clear evidence that Andrew was in a public office role, and that he knowingly abused or exploited his position.

Sean Caulfield, a criminal defence lawyer at Hodge Jones & Allen, said:

Proving misconduct in a public office is an extremely high bar. Firstly, it must be determined if Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was in a role within government that constitutes the title of public officer.

There is no standard definition to clearly draw on, but case law indicates that a public officer is someone who holds an office of trust or performs a public duty.

Thames Valley Police previously said it was reviewing allegations that Andrew shared sensitive information with Jeffrey Epstein while serving as the UK’s trade envoy.

The case will rest on whether sharing confidential government briefing documents constitutes an abuse of the public’s trust, Mr Caulfield added.

The King has carried on with his duties as monarch in the wake of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest.

Charles continued with his planned ambassadorial in-person audiences in the Throne Room at St James’s Palace on Thursday.

He was pictured welcoming the ambassador of El Salvador Francisco Lima Mena as part of a series of audiences at the royal residence.

The monarch earlier vowed he and the royal family would ‘continue in our duty and service to you all’ after issuing a written statement insisting the ‘law must take its course’ and expressing his ‘deep concern’ over allegations against his younger brother of misconduct in public office.

Former BBC royal correspondent Peter Hunt has claimed the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has left the Royal Family facing a situation it is ‘ill-equipped to navigate’.

Mr Hunt said senior royals find themselves in ‘uncharted waters’ following the Epstein scandal which has rocked the UK’s political and royal institutions.

He told the Press Association:

The arrest of the eighth in line to the British throne is seismic. Senior royals are now in uncharted waters that they are ill-equipped to navigate.

They will have to answer questions about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and be held accountable, something which, up until now, has been an alien concept for them.

Royal commentator Alastair Bruce has explained why Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest will be ‘ghastly’ for King Charles as he reacted to the bombshell developments today.

Hear his thoughts below:

Police searches of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s former home of Royal Lodge, in Windsor, are ongoing.

Officers can be seen at the gates of the sprawling property, while the press are being kept at an outer entrance.

A police spokesperson at the scene confirmed that the search is ongoing within the property.

Walkers and families are continuing to wander through the surrounding Windsor Great Park.

Former prime minister Gordon Brown has revealed he has sent new information to police in the wake of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest earlier today.

Mr Brown, who led the UK from 2007 to 2010, said:

I have submitted a five-page memorandum to the Metropolitan, Surrey, Sussex, Thames Valley and other relevant UK police constabularies.

This memorandum provides new and additional information to that which I submitted last week to the Met, Essex and Thames Valley police forces where I expressed my concern that we secure justice for trafficked girls and women.

Mr Brown has previously police to interview Andrew as part of a new investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and his ‘Lolita Express’ private jet.

The Prince and Princess of Wales have expressed their support for the King’s statement following the arrest of his brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

Prince William and Princess Catherine approve of King Charles’ words issued this morning, the Press Association understands.

The King has said ‘the law must take its course’ after expressing his ‘deepest concern’ over the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

Charles III revealed that the police would have his ‘wholehearted support and co-operation’ after his younger brother was held on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

The Prince and Princess of Wales also support the King’s unprecedented statement following the arrest of William’s uncle Andrew at Sandringham on Thursday.

Virginia Giuffre pictured arriving at a court in New York in 2019

A lawyer who represented Virginia Giuffre and other victims of Jeffrey Epstein hailed the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor as a ‘monumental moment’ for survivors.

Sigrid McCawley, who was assigned to represent Ms Giuffre in 2014, said in a statement:

This is truly a monumental moment in the Epstein survivor’s relentless pursuit of justice.

Virginia Guiffre worked for years to shine a light on the crimes being committed by Epstein and his co-conspirators and to send the message that no one should be above the law and the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor today is a step toward that accountability

A source with knowledge of the investigation has told Arizona Family’s true crime correspondent Briana Whitney there is a growing belief among investigators that Nancy Guthrie’s abduction on February 1 was a burglary gone wrong.

If that is the case, they believe there is a possibility the 84-year-old could still be alive.

The hypothesis comes after multiple experts who reviewed Guthrie’s doorbell camera footage from the night of her disappearance told Arizona Family the incident did not appear to be a planned out kidnapping.

A total of 16 gloves were found about two miles from Nancy’s home, the FBI told the Daily Mail.

On Sunday, it was revealed that most of those gloves were used by searchers who then discarded them on the ground.

But one of the gloves appeared to be a match to the one’s a male suspect was wearing in doorbell footage captured in the early hours of February 1, the agency said.

Despite a report suggesting investigators were increasingly probing the possibility that Nancy Guthrie’s abduction on February 1 was a burglary gone wrong, an unidentified law enforcement source poured cold water on the theory.

‘This is not the working theory inside the unit,’ the unidentified source told Fox News, noting that nighttime residential burglaries are uncommon.

The source then went on to question why a burglar would target Guthrie’s home.

‘We don’t have any indication that [Guthrie] really kept anything valuable there, and if this was a burglary gone wrong, they don’t take the victim with them usually.’

‘I guess anything is possible but my gut says it’s something else entirely.’

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos also told the outlet that the information about the burglary theory ‘did not come from us’ and he has ‘no idea’ where it came from.

‘Even though that is one of many possibilities, we would never speculate such a thing,’ Nanos said.

‘We will let the evidence take us to the motive.’

The FBI is leaning away from the possibility that Nancy Guthrie’s family may be behind her abduction, sources briefed on the investigation told ABC News.

Agents are also said to be leaning away from both the man who was stopped in a car in Rio Rico last week and the man whose home was searched Friday night as potential suspects.

But Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has previously said ‘nobody is fully cleared’ until the person or people who abducted Guthrie are in custody.

Today Show host Savannah Guthrie posted a new video on Sunday to mark two weeks since her mother was taken from her home in Tucson, Arizona.

She said she and her siblings ‘still have hope,’ before turning her attention ‘to whoever has her or knows where she is.

‘It’s never too late, and you’re not lost or alone, and it is never too late to do the right thing,’ she said.

‘We are here and we believe, and we believe in the essential goodness of every human being and it’s never too late.’

The holster a suspect was seen wearing in Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell video camera is cheaply made, and may have come from Walmart, an active-duty Miami-area police officer told Fox News.

The officer noted that the holster’s seemingly light-colored appearance is misleading, since it appeared in an infrared recording.

Instead, the officer said the main panel comprises a different material from the piping, and the shape and other details align with a Strategy brand hip holster available at some Walmart stores for around $10.

As of Saturday afternoon, the holster was listed as in stock at five Walmart stores in the Tucson area: 1260 E. Tucson Marketplace Blvd., 7150 E. Speedway Blvd., 7635 N. La Cholla Blvd., 1650 W. Valencia Road and 8280 N. Cortaro Road, according to the retailer’s website.

It describes the water-resistant holster as being designed to hold a revolver with a barrel measuring four to six and a half inches, and is designed for right-hand use.

The FBI has previously announced that the suspect was seen carrying an Ozark Trail backpack, which is also exclusively sold at Walmart stores.

Meanwhile, the officer told Fox that the gun in the Nest video appeared to be a Walther semiautomatic or something similar – which is not considered popular among gun aficionados.

As a result, the officer said he doesn’t expect that investigators will find many purchases for the gun.

Almost immediately after news broke of Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance, the country became captivated with the investigation.

At the same time, amateur journalists and internet sleuths have thrust themselves into the probe, with many of them setting up camp right outside of the 84-year-old’s home in Tucson, Arizona.

Now, officially two weeks into the search for Savannah Guthrie’s beloved mother, tensions have appeared to grow between locals and internet personalities pushing out information on the case, including a lot of speculation and unconfirmed reports.

Newly released footage showed a man trying to scale a wall in Tucson while wearing a similar backpack to the one Nancy Guthrie‘s captor was seen with.

An unidentified bald man donning a gray zip-down jacket and blue jeans was seen taking off one backpack while another remained on his back around 1.53am local time on February 1, the same day the 84-year-old was reported missing.

He then appeared to try to get on the other side of the stone wall, but after a couple of moments of difficulty, he walked away.

Concerned residents have reported a black latex glove found around two and a half miles from missing Nancy Guthrie’s house.

The glove was discovered in a dusty riverbed close to a shopping strip more than two weeks after the 84-year-old vanished.

Several locals reported the item to the Pimo County Sheriff’s Office, but no law enforcement has yet shown up to process the possible evidence.

It comes after federal authorities announced this morning that they had found several discarded searchers gloves in their search.

One of the gloves found has been submitted for DNA profiling as it matches the kind of glove worn by the suspected kidnapper caught on Nancy’s doorbell.

Despite the FBI issuing a statement explaining they are expecting new information from DNA processed by a lab in Florida, there has been little movement from law enforcement as of Sunday afternoon.

Almost immediately after news broke of Nancy Guthrie‘s disappearance, the country became captivated with the investigation.

At the same time, amateur journalists and internet sleuths have thrust themselves into the probe, with many of them setting up camp right outside of the 84-year-old’s home in Tucson, Arizona.

Now, officially two weeks into the search for Savannah Guthrie’s beloved mother, tensions have appeared to grow between locals and internet personalities pushing out information on the case, including a lot of speculation and unconfirmed reports.

Democratic Rep. Alma Hernandez, who represents Tucson, said she is fed up with the presence of true crime sleuths who have taken over Tucson and the Pima County area.

‘I am so sick of watching the “reporting” grifting, insane speculation, lies and BS by random wannabe journalists and YouTubers who have now caused more harm than good to this entire situation and put this serious case in jeopardy,’ Hernandez said in an X post late Saturday evening.

The FBI released more information about the suspect in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie on Thursday.

‘The suspect is described as a male, approximately 5’9” – 5’10” tall, with an average build,’ read a statement from Phoenix FBI.

‘In the video, he is wearing a black, 25-liter ‘Ozark Trail Hiker Pack’ backpack.’

The agency added that they have received more than 13,000 tips in the case and the reward amount has increased from $50,000 to $100,000.

Derrick Callella, the man charged with allegedly sending a fake ransom note in Nancy Guthrie’s case, is set to be arraigned in a federal courthouse in Arizona today at 4pm local time.

Callella sent a fake ransom text to Nancy Guthrie’s daughter in early February, a few days after Nancy had been kidnapped.

Callella texted Annie and Cioni on February 4: ‘Did you get the bitcoin were [sic] waiting on our end for the transaction’.

Three minutes later, he phoned one of Nancy’s family members. The call lasted only nine seconds, the criminal complaint said.

He contacted the family shortly after Today Show host Savannah Guthrie, Annie and their brother Camron posted a video to Instagram begging for their mother’s return.

Callella allegedly admitted to sending the messages and told investigators he was ‘just trying to see if the family would respond.

Officials confirmed Callella had also been charged in a 2023 embezzlement scheme in which 13 Los Angeles County employees allegedly stole over $430,000 in unemployment benefits from the county.

Grainy. Fleeting. Less than a minute in total. But for detectives investigating the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie from a quiet Tucson foothills home, the newly-recovered doorbell footage is dynamite.

The black-and-white images – released by the FBI in what officials describe as the first major break in the case – show a masked, armed figure on the porch of her $1 million home in the early hours of Sunday, February 1.

The individual appears to tamper with the doorbell camera, at one point holding a flashlight in their mouth while adjusting the device. It is the first time investigators and the public have seen the suspect.

Speaking to Fox News on Friday, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the FBI was providing every possible resource to assist with the ongoing Nancy Guthrie investigation.

‘We are offering the full resources and weight of the federal government to help local authorities bring this case to an end to bring Nancy Guthrie home,’ Leavitt said.

‘President Trump immediately offered that when this case was first heard about, when this news broke and our hearts break every day that this goes on.’

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump reviewed the new security footage released by the FBI from Nancy Guthrie’s home.

Leavitt said she was with the president as they reviewed the new evidence in the case which she described as ‘heartbreaking.’

The shocking footage revealed a masked figure with a latex glove tampering with a security camera at the home. It was released just hours before police detained a person of interest in the case near Tucson, Arizona.

Leavitt said President Trump reacted to the footage with ‘pure disgust.’

Retired Houston sketch artist Lois Gibson created an unofficial sketch of an unidentified police suspect captured in Nancy Guthrie’s home surveillance footage from the night she disappeared.

Gibson has not been brought on by Arizona police in the search and the sketch has not been officially released by authorities.

The forensic artist created a mock up of what the suspect could look like based on what little the surveillance footage reveals: eyes, lips and facial hair beneath the mask.

‘I couldn’t stop myself, I just couldn’t stop myself, I wanted to help, I felt the pain,’ Gibson told KHOU 11.

‘I’ve been in the room with people, their babies have been kidnapped and it takes you by the throat, it makes you feel like you’re choking over what they’re going through, so I wanted to help them.’

Nancy Guthrie’s neighbors have shown an outpouring of support since her disappearance from her home nearly two weeks ago.

Yellow bows have been seen tied to trees on the street of Nancy’s home in the Catalina Foothills in solidarity for the Guthrie family.

Yellow ribbons have been used for to show hope and support for someone’s safe return in missing persons cases.

A makeshift memorial has also been set up outside Nancy’s home, where flowers, handwritten messages, posters and candles have been laid in tribute

Nancy Guthrie has been missing for 13 days after she was abducted from her home in Tucson, Arizona, in the early hours of Feb 1.

She was first reported missing on after she did not show up to attend a virtual church service at a friend’s house.

Authorities began searching for her that night. They confirmed the following day that her disappearance was being treated as a crime.

Nancy Guthrie made posts on a neighborhood app that revealed she had previous run-ins with criminals outside her $1 million home and the reason she decided to buy a doorbell camera.

The 84-year-old mother of Today Show host Savannah Guthrie was taken from her home in the upscale Catalina Foothills neighborhood of Tucson, Arizona in the early morning hours of February 1.

She had lived in the home since 1975, raising her three children there, according to her profile on Nextdoor.

An Arizona sheriff was said to be blocking FBI access to key evidence in the investigation into the abduction of Savannah Guthrie’s mother, a source told Reuters on Thursday.

The FBI asked Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos for physical evidence in the case, including a glove and DNA from the home of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, to be processed at the FBI’s national crime laboratory in Quantico, Virginia.

Sheriff Nanos has insisted instead on using a private lab in Florida.

He slammed claims that his department was ‘withholding evidence’ as ‘Not even close to the truth.’

‘Actually, the FBI just wanted to send the one or two they found by the crime scene, closest to it – mile, mile and a half…’ he continued.

‘I said “No, why do that? Let’s just send them all to where all the DNA exist, all the profiles and the markers exist.” They agreed, makes sense.’

The sheriff also argued that the gloves found at the scene by FBI investigators may not be as valuable as initially thought as police found multiple pairs on the side of the road near Nancy’s home.

‘We don’t even know the true value of these gloves,’ Nanos said, claiming there was ‘quite a number of them.’

Authorities announced on Thursday that the suspect who was seen trying to obscure a Nest doorbell camera outside Nancy Guthrie’s home on the night of her disappearance had been carrying a 25-liter ‘Ozark Trail Hiker Pack’ backpack.

The brand is exclusive to Walmart, and can only be bought new from the store.

Derrick Callella, 42, the California man accused of sending a fake ransom note to Nancy Guthrie’s family, made his initial appearance in federal court in Tucson today.

Callella is charged with transmitting a demand for ransom in interstate commerce and using a telecommunications device with intent to abuse, threaten or harass a person.

He allegedly sent the demands as text messages to Guthrie’s family on February 4 and made a nine-second phone call to a family member.

Callella was released before trial, on the condition that he limit travel only from California to Arizona and is not allowed to contact any potential witnesses or victims, KVOA reports.