Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg has described Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor as looking like a “broken man”.
The former Conservative MP said on GB News: “It’s the first arrest of a royal, I think, arguably, since the Duke of Monmouth, who had his head cut off in the 1680s for rebelling against James II, although George I, I believe, kept his wife locked up in a castle in Hanover for a bit.
“But it’s also constitutionally fascinating, not just because of the effect on the King and on support for the monarchy, but because that great principle of English and subsequently British law has been upheld, that nobody is above the law. Be you ever so high, the law is above you.”
He added: “For once, I agree with Sir Keir Starmer that no one is above the law. It is a fundamental principle. We now see that the former Prince Andrew has left prison in a very depressed state, looking a defeated, broken man.”