By the time a wide-eyed Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was slumped in the back of a Range Rover on his way to the police station last week, the reality had hit home.

The man who was once a prince, watching his life crumble before his eyes.

Now, as the world reels from Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest, and the royals scramble to protect themselves from one of the biggest crises the palace has faced – a warning from a royal biographer, that the King could go down too.

Today, royal historian Andrew Lownie, who literally wrote the book on Mountbatten-Windsor, discusses what’s next for the former prince – and whether the King could be forced to abdicate.

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Guest: Andrew Lownie, historian and royal biographer