Johnny Diamond

A truly stunning development in the sense that nobody can remember, certainly in the last 30, 40, 50 years, beyond that any time,

where a member of the royal family, albeit a disgraced one, has been arrested.

But to get to the details, early this morning, the police turned up at where Andrew is now living, which is on his brother's estate, the King's estate in Sandringham.

That's in Norfolk in the east of England.

He was taken to a police station.

We don't know where, but to talk you through what happens and what's involved in an arrest process in the U.K.,

He would have been asked for his identity by a sergeant, a policeman standing there at the desk.

He may well have been taken to a cell for all of his details.

A lawyer will no doubt have been called.

And essentially what it means when you're arrested is that you will be questioned.

You will be held in a police station at that point.

You could either be released or you could be charged.

I mean, it's possible that you could be released and charged at a later date, but a very serious development indeed.

And

And arrest is a surprise as well.

The suspects won't know that the police are arriving.

But it also gives the police a right to search your property.

So searches are going on at the Sandringham estate where Andrew lives and also where he formerly lived in Windsor, just outside of London.

Well, it's a tremendously serious charge.

And the assumption is that it relates to his time as a UK trader envoy.