by Marcia Merry Baker (EIRNS) — Feb. 19, 2026
The
police arrest Thursday morning of former Prince Andrew, now Andrew
Mountbatten-Windsor, the brother of Britain’s King Charles III, in
connection with revelations from the international Jeffrey Epstein file,
swings the gates even wider for potential clean up longtime
oligarchical filth. The arrest was made on the royal property of
Sandringham, Norfolk; then began police searches of these premises, and
the former residence of Mountbatten-Windsor at Windsor. Designated as
“under investigation,” he has since been released. The pending charges
are described as being those of “public misconduct” while serving the
function of the U.K. Special Representative for International Trade and
Investment (2001-2011).
No surprise, nor coincidence, the Feb. 19 arrest comes at the very same time as this EIR.news media service sent out its EIR weekly
to subscribers this morning, with the photograph (see above) of
then-Prince Andrew on the cover, under the headline, “Is This the End of
the Epstein Class?” Depending on what the world community does to clean
up this historic, oligarchic, perverted mess, humanity can be on a road
to a thriving future, not the Western collapse now at hand, with even
the threat of annihilation from nuclear war.
What is at stake is described forcefully by Lyndon H. LaRouche (1922-2019) in his prologue to a 1994 EIR Special Report: “The Coming Fall of the House of Windsor.” This LaRouche writing is reprinted in the Feb. 19 weekly of EIR,
which otherwise features an article, “What Was Jeffrey Epstein,
Really?—Part 3: The Truth About Epstein Might Bring Down the British
Monarchy,” the third installment in a 2026 EIR
series by Harley Schlanger, president of The LaRouche Organization.
Schlanger’s full series, plus additional material, is under preparation
as a rush pamphlet for mass distribution in the United States.
In
addition, an action group formed from an international dialogue on
January 12, 2026, hosted by the EIR News Service online, has issued
a “January 12 Declaration” of principle ("Let Us Create a Movement of
World Citizens!”), given the world emergency, and is organizing for a March 2 conference, “Epstein and the Bottomless Depravity of the ‘Elites’—Urgent Need for a Cultural Renaissance!”
Within
minutes of the arrest of Mountbatten-Windsor, a handwritten statement
came from King Charles. Expressing “deepest concern” over the “news
about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and suspicion of misconduct in public
office,” he wrote that, “the law must take its course.” He ended by
subliminally expressing concern to continue on the throne: “My family
and I will continue in our duty and service to you all.” Prince William
and his wife Kate Middleton reportedly concurred.
At the same
time, Gordon Brown, former Prime Minister (2007-2010) at the time when
then- Prince Andrew was trade representative, has supplied a five-page
memorandum to the Thames Valley and other police jurisdictions,
reportedly with leads to pursue on Mountbatten-Windsor’s sex-trafficking
involvement. No word has yet been reported from former Prime Minister
Tony Blair, who was Prime Minister (1997-2007) for six earlier years of
Andrew’s trade envoy role, and can be expected to know all about it.
It
needs repeating often: The sex and abuse degradation, the injurious
financial and economic policies, are all one and the same complex of
evil. It is time for justice and accountability across all fronts. Note
that in the United States today, the British arrest has prompted Rep.
Robert Garcia, Ranking Member of the Oversight Committee in Congress, to
demand answers now from Britain, where it was long known that Andrew
was favored and protected by Queen Elizabeth.
An immediate task is
to intervene to restore morality and sanity in the world affairs of
nations. Washington is perpetrating a showdown with the nation of Iran,
with unprecedented U.S. military forces now located throughout the
region. Today, Feb. 19, U.S. President Donald Trump stated that within
the next 10 days, Iran must either agree to the terms of a deal with the
U.S., or “bad things will happen.” He said this ironically at the Board
of Peace he was hosting in Washington, D.C., with many national leaders
present; Trump repeated it to reporters on Air Force One this afternoon
en route to Georgia.
This is the leading, dangerous edge of other
might-makes-right U.S. initiatives, at present, manifest, but not
limited to the Western Hemisphere. On Feb. 18, U.S. Southcom commander
Gen. Francis Donovan made a surprise visit to Venezuela, to confer on
what the United States expects of that vassal nation, while meantime,
its President and his wife remain locked up in New York City. On Feb. 17
in Peru, acting President José Jeri was impeached from office, in an
operation with blatant U.S. involvement, to claim he was behaving
favorably to Chinese envoys and China-built infrastructure, in
particular the newly-built Chancay Port.
Plan to endorse the Jan. 12 Declaration against this lawlessness, attend the March 2 conference, and subscribe to EIR.news.
An excerpt from Lyndon LaRouche in today’s EIR weekly, reprinted from EIR’s 1994 “The Fall of the House of Windsor,” addresses what we are up against. It serves as the introduction to the 120-page EIR
report, which documents the systemic economic, social, and geopolitical
practices—imperialism—to keep people and nations down and suffering. In
particular, Prince Philip Mountbatten, father of former Prince Andrew,
played a leading international role. LaRouche wrote: “The evil
permeating the criminality of the Prince [Philip Mountbatten] and his
accomplices is very old, as old as the dimly lit fringes of earliest
known history. The ultimate enemy is not this unfortunate Prince, but
rather that specific tradition of criminality fairly described as
‘oligarchism.’ That oligarchism is the specific infectious agent
responsible for the moral and mental sickness shown by the accused
Prince and his accomplices. In selecting a just and prudent course of
action in the matter of the ongoing criminality documented here, we must
rise above the prevailing decadence of most current international legal
and related practice, to cure the problem, rather than, as the victors
pervert the post-World War II Nuremberg Trials, seeking to hide our own
earlier negligence behind some conspicuous suffering imposed upon an
inculpated scapegoat.”