Thames Valley Police said that officers had detained a man in his sixties from Norfolk who has been arrested and remains in police custody. The force added that it had opened an inquiry into a suspected offence of misconduct in public office, after confirming last week it was assessing evidence to determine whether a full investigation was warranted. The arrest comes weeks after the Department of Justice released millions of documents relating to the disgraced financier, thrusting Mountbatten-Windsor's past associations back into the spotlight.
Near the beginning of " The Way We Live Now," Anthony Trollope's searing satire of high-society London in the eighteen-seventies, Madame Melmotte, the wife of Augustus Melmotte, a crooked parvenu financier who has burst onto the British social scene, hosts a ball at the couple's mansion in Grosvenor Square, Mayfair. Despite Melmotte's checkered past, many members of the London élite accept his invitation to the party, including many aristocrats, a newspaper editor, and Prince George, a member of the British Royal Family.
A new tranche of Epstein files has blasted its way through the worlds of media, politics, tech, academia, finance and Hollywood. High-profile individuals have once again been forced to explain their relationship with the billionaire financier and why exactly they sent that email, or what they were doing in that photo, in that place, at that time. There have been resignations in Norway, Slovakia, France, the UK and on Wall Street.