Woman arrested after thumping on Prince Andrew’s car window

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  1. A woman was arrested on Friday after banging on the Duke of York’s car window and shouting at him as he drove through Windsor.

    Prince Andrew, 61, was taking his regular short route from his Royal Lodge home on the Windsor estate to Windsor Castle, where he goes riding.

    As he paused at a crossroads, the woman started thumping on the window of his Range Rover and repeatedly yelling his name. An onlooker said she appeared to have a European accent.

    It is thought the Duke’s Royal Protection Officer, who was in the passenger seat, radioed colleagues and the police were called.

    Thames Valley Police said they attended the scene at around 10am. “A 50-year-old woman, of no fixed abode, has been arrested on suspicion of using threatening/abusive/insulting words/behaviour to cause harassment/alarm/distress,” they said in a statement. “She remains in custody.”

    The incident comes as the Duke fights claims that he raped or sexually assaulted a 17-year-old on three separate occasions in 2001.

    Earlier this year, he was targeted by multiple intruders who tried to gain access to the Grade II-listed Windsor home he shares with his former wife, the Duchess of York.

    In April, a 43-year-old Spaniard who claimed to be “Irene Windsor” was waved into the property after telling officers on the gate that she had a lunch date with the Duke.

    The woman spent 20 minutes wandering around the grounds before entering the building and was only apprehended when she asked a member of staff where to find the Duke, who was working from home.

    She was arrested on suspicion of burglary and later sectioned under the Mental Health Act.

    Just days later, a 31-year-old man and 29-year-old woman were arrested after being found trespassing on the grounds.

    The two incidents sparked calls for a security review. Thames Valley Police is responsible for the security around Windsor estate, while Scotland Yard bodyguards protect members of the Royal Family within the grounds.

    However, Royal Lodge is understood to also have an element of private security paid for by the Privy Purse.

  2. Wasn’t her. She was in pizza express the whole time and following her career as a nurse she hasn’t had the ability to knock.

  3. > Thames Valley Police said they attended the scene at around 10am. “A 50-year-old woman, of no fixed abode, has been arrested on suspicion of using threatening/abusive/insulting words/behaviour to cause harassment/alarm/distress,” they said in a statement. “She remains in custody.”

    She should claim it was a party.

    Oh wait, you need to buy off the police with a Damehood first.

  4. So she gets arrested, meanwhile the nonce is free to *..checks notes..* continue to be a nonce

    Oh yeah, top police work as per bloody usual

  5. Genuine question – is there a law for aggressive behaviour towards the royal family, or something? I can’t imagine anyone being *arrested* if they banged on the window of *my* car.

  6. So a woman who bangs on a car is arrested, but a prince who bangs underage girls gets away scot free…

  7. Amazing how the Police can’t investigate the Tory party despite ample evidence, or investigate the Royal sexual abuser for his possible links to sex trafficking…

    However they can protect the royal sexual abuser from the public knocking on their windows.

  8. “A 43-year-old Spaniard who claimed to be “Irene Windsor” was waved into the property after telling officers on the gate that she had a lunch date with the Duke.”

    Lunch date with the Duke? And the guards didn’t check before letting her in?

    Surely they must’ve been suspicious. She’s far too old for him.

  9. Yes, of course arrest her. It’s far more offensive to show anger at the continued dodging justice of an alleged paedo than it is for that alleged paedo to be driving around, living it large.

  10. I know this place well. It’s kinda weird how low key the security actually is. I saw Prince Phillip off on his own among the public on his horse and cart well into his 90s. Seen the Queen driving in the exact same place with no obvious security back up. Sometimes not even in the car with her. There’s armed police minding a gate to a farm gate about 30 seconds drive away which is where I suspect the police came from after the security guy sounded the alarm.

  11. Don’t you just hate when the commoners think they can look in the direction of nobles? Ugh, the riff raff are so obtuse. Boy! Fetch me another wench to shine my knob whilst we traverse the land.

  12. “Prince Andrew, 61, was taking his regular short route from his Royal Lodge home on the Windsor estate to Windsor Castle, where he goes riding”

    What exactly does he ride?

  13. A window which is almost certainly some fancy-ass type of security glass, with a protection officer in the vehicle who will have had a firearm in addition to a police radio and probably with other protection officers in the immediate area.

    So this is measurably, massively less intimidating than someone knocking on a regular window of a typical person’s car.

  14. So you can bang underage girls but knocking on a car window is arrest worthy? Nice to know that as long as you’re wealthy / powerful you can get away with anything.

  15. Somebody ‘banged’ on my car window so hard that it smashed and all my possessions in there also mysteriously went missing but the police aren’t interested in even looking into that one.

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