Andrew’s security team have been seen stocking up on lager and noodles after driving him home from the police station.
Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, 66, was arrested on Thursday morning by officers at his Wood Farm home in Sandringham on suspicion of misconduct in public office, and was released pending further investigation the same day at about 8pm.
His security team were sent out on a shopping trip for the essentials today – Madri beers and pot noodles.
The two men – incidentally the same security officers who were pictured driving a shell-shocked Andrew back to Sandringham after his 11-hour stint in police custody – were seen carrying Sainsbury’s and Tesco‘s bags this afternoon.
The bodyguards left Wood Farm on Saturday morning to do a supermarket run in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, while the former prince remains holed up at Wood Farm on the Sandringham Estate.
They appeared to be carrying two boxes of beer under their arms and supermarket groceries, including Soba Chilli Cup Noodles, which cost around £2, and a large pack of Madri Excepcional Premium Lager Beer, which retails for £14.75 at Tesco’s.
Andrew was detained by officers for Thames Valley Police on suspicion of misconduct in public office for around 11 hours on Thursday.
Accusations over Andrew’s links to Epstein have plagued the family for years and finally came to a head with the release of files from his estate by the US Department of Justice.
Andrew’s security team were out stocking up on the essentials today – Madri beers and pot noodles
The two bodyguards sent to the supermarkets were the same pair that drove Andrew back to Sandringham after his arrest on Thursday
Among the groceries were Soba Chilli Cup Noodles, which cost about £2, and a large pack of Madri Lager Beers
Andrew pictured leaving Aylsham police station in Norfolk shortly after 7pm on Thursday
Some appeared to show the eighth-in-line to the throne sharing sensitive information during his time as a trade envoy.
Officers are expected to continue to search Andrew’s former Royal Lodge home in Windsor until Monday as they gather potential evidence against the former prince.
A convoy of unmarked police vehicles arrived at the gates to Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park, Andrew’s former home, on Saturday, marking the third day of police raids.
Police vehicles were coming and going from the estate where Andrew lived in the 30-room mansion from 2004 until recently.
On Friday, more than 20 vehicles were seen parked at the property, although it was not known whether they were all connected to the investigation and searches.
It comes as pressure mounts for Andrew to be removed from the line of royal succession as Labour MP Luke Pollard, said it was ‘the right thing to do’ when he was ‘only a heartbeat away’ from the throne as eighth in line, regardless of what the result of the police investigation was.
Speaking last night, Mr Pollard confirmed that the government was actively considering introducing legislation to take away his right of succession once the police investigation into him had been concluded.
‘Being able to set out very clearly what the standards are that we as a nation expect and what are those British values that we can be proud of points in the direction that it is the right thing to stop someone who can potentially be a heartbeat away from the throne,’ he told BBC Radio 4’s Any Questions programme.
Police officers are seen at the gates of Andrew’s former home, Royal Lodge in Windsor
A group of police officers in plain clothes arrived at Wood Farm on Thursday morning, as Andrew was taken into custody
Mr Pollard said he hoped the proposals would ‘enjoy cross party support’ and ‘it was right that it is something that only happens when the police investigation concludes’.
An Act of Parliament would be required to remove Andrew along with the support of the 14 Commonwealth countries where the King is Head of State, including New Zealand, Canada and Australia, where legislation would also be needed.
On Friday night, Chief Secretary to the Treasury James Murray confirmed that the Government was ‘considering any further steps that might be required’, and are not ruling anything out.
Liberal Democrat spokeswoman Layla Moran told the BBC today that she had tried to put forward a backbench Bill yesterday to remove Andrew from the line of succession but that it would need to be put forward ‘in government time’.
‘If you can’t be a prince then you shouldn’t be king,’ she said. ‘There is a bizarre quirk of the way the line of succession works where Andrew could still become king and there would be protests in the streets if that happened and that would be the end of the monarchy.’
Speaking on Radio 4’s Today programme, she called for an ‘independent public inquiry’ into ‘who knew what when about what the Epstein Files have shown’.
Other MPs are said to believe that formal legislation is not required because Andrew is too far removed from the throne to be a concern.
However, supporters of the legislation point out that it is feasible that although he is only eighth in line, he could become a Regent to William’s children in extreme circumstances if anything were to happen to both King Charles and Prince William.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested on his birthday on suspicion of misconduct in public office (Pictured: Andrew leaning over a young woman in a photo released as part of the Epstein files)
Police outside Wood Farm on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, where Andrew was held
He was stripped of his titles last October by King Charles over his ties to the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, but remained in the line of succession.
He had stepped down from public duties back in 2019 over allegations about his friendship with Epstein, in the wake of his disastrous Newsnight interview.
But pressure has grown for further action following continued allegations about Andrew after the further release of documents and photographs from the Epstein Files.
It is understood that Thames Valley Police are yet to receive any ‘early investigative advice’ from the Crown Prosecution Service in relation to the allegation.
