Meghan Markle has spent years trying to keep Prince Harry’s orbit cleanly separated from the Windsor family’s worst headlines. So the idea of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor—freshly arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office—testing the waters for a chummy reconnection with Prince Harry lands less like a reconciliation fantasy and more like a dare.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor faces being removed from the line of succession, The Telegraph understands.