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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-21T15:31:25.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "Sarah Ferguson programme sparks 'nerves' as royal drama looms",
    "Protesters gather outside Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's home days after arrest",
    "Princess of Wales 'made children feel like they belong' during Children's Mental Health Week",
    "The GB News Editorial Charter"
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  "textContent": "\n\n\nAndrew Mountbatten-Windsor should have been exiled, a royal commentator has claimed, after protestors descended on Sandringham following his release from police custody.\n\nProtesters arrived at Wood Farm on Saturday following the former Duke of York's 11-hour stay at Aylsham Police Station on his 66th birthday.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nMembers of the Norfolk Suffolk Hunt Saboteurs staged a short demonstration.\n\nThey were seen wearing masks resembling King Charles, Queen Camilla and Prince Harry during their demonstration.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nRoyal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams believes that the only way to avoid this happening was for Andrew to have been exiled.\n\nHe told GB News: “Things would have happened whenever he was moved. I mean, it would have been impossible unless he went, of course, into exile. Which he should have done.\n\n“I'd have thought that was a given with the way things are moving. I don't think anywhere at all, everywhere, could hide it?\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n“My point is that if you behave as he has, and if things have been dragged out, as long as they have given the circumstances and what's coming out and so forth. Naturally, interest will be there.\n\n“And if that's the case, any community would be adversely affected, the King had to get him out of Royal Lodge. Remember, they'd had a 75-year lease. It wouldn't have been possible legally to do that, so he had to offer something else, and this was what they came up with. It's all imperfect, of course.”\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nResidents in the area claimed Andrew was being \"waited on hand and foot\".\n\nThey argue Wood Farm is “too close to the road” and that a home, ”out in the woods that's surrounded by trees and no other houses would have been better.”\n\n### LATEST ROYAL NEWS\n\n\n\n\n  * Sarah Ferguson programme sparks 'nerves' as royal drama looms\n  * Protesters gather outside Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's home days after arrest\n  * Princess of Wales 'made children feel like they belong' during Children's Mental Health Week\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nGB News confirmed on Friday that Thames Valley Police will continue its searches of Andrew’s former home, Royal Lodge, over the weekend.\n\nThe force has confirmed that search operations at the former Duke of York's previous residence will extend through to Monday.\n\nSearches had been taking place at Wood Farm before they concluded on Thursday evening.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe investigation is currently ongoing and Andrew has not yet been charged.\n\nAndrew has consistently and strenuously denied any wrongdoing amid the ongoing allegations.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards:The GB News Editorial Charter**",
  "title": "Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor told he 'should have been exiled' as protestors descend on Sandringham"
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