Which royals have been in trouble with the law as Andrew arrested?
He has been arrested under suspicion of misconduct in public office having come under renewed scrutiny since the publication of the “Epstein files”. He denies any wrongdoing.
But which members of the royal family have previously had run-ins with the law?
Princess Anne
In 2002, Anne’s English bull terrier Dotty attacked two boys in Windsor Great Park.
The Princess Royal was prosecuted under the Dangerous Dogs Act, pleaded guilty at Slough Magistratesβ Court, and was fined Β£500.
She was also required to pay compensation and and undergo dog training.
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This made her the first member of the current British royal family to be convicted of a criminal offence in more than three centuries.
In 2001, she was also fined Β£400 for speeding in her Bentley after admitting to driving at 93mph in a 70mph zone in Gloucestershire.
She also clocked speeding offences in 1977 and 1990.
Zara Tindall
Princess Anne’s daughter Zara also got herself on the wrong side of the law when she was banned from driving for six months after being caught speeding at 91mph.
Further back in history
Going just a bit further back in history, King Richard I was arrested and held for ransom by the Duke of Austria and the Holy Roman Emperor in the 1190s.
During the English Civil War, Charles I was held in guarded captivity at multiple locations (including Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight) before his trial and execution in 1649.
The second wife of Henry VIII and Queen of England Anne Boleyn was arrested in 1536 on charges of treason and adultery.
Mary Queen of Scots was held in prison for 19 years between 1568 and 1587 in various English castles after fleeing Scotland, following her forced abdication.
George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence (brother of Kings Edward IV and Richard III), was arrested, tried in Parliament for treason, and executed in the Tower of London in 1478, famously said to have been drowned in a butt of malmsey wine.
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King Henry VI was captured multiple times during the Wars of the Roses and finally held in the Tower of London, where he was secretly killed in 1471.
In these periods, a royal βarrestβ usually meant being seized by order of the monarch or Parliament and confined in castles or the Tower of London, often without anything like a modern trial.
Many were detained or executed for treason or as rivals to the throne, rather than for everyday criminal offences of the sort seen in modern courts.