Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor barely had time to enjoy his morning tea and Abernethy biscuits before Thames Valley Police turned up on his doorstep that day back in February.
Despite receiving a tip-off that detectives were heading his way, nothing could have prepared him for the shock of seeing six unmarked cars pulling up outside Wood Farm at around 8am on his 66th birthday.
While the erstwhile Duke of York was arrested and taken away for questioning to a Norfolk police station, plain-clothed officers, armed with a search warrant, rummaged through the rooms of his temporary home on the Sandringham Estate.
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