Article continues below advertisementAndrew Mountbatten-Windsor's bombshell arrest is not good for the public image of the British royal family. "It's an embarrassment for them," royal historian Gareth Russell told an outlet following the disgraced former prince's shocking arrest on Thursday, February 19. "There hasn't been a fallout that merges politics with personal like this for the royals in decades.""It'll be hard to know where to put this in the history of royal scandals until it's over," the author continued. "Andrew's arrest is an enormous scandal by any standards.