{"id":3736,"date":"2018-04-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/uncategorised\/clone-royals-rocked-rape-allegation\/"},"modified":"2020-01-09T02:04:36","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T02:04:36","slug":"clone-royals-rocked-rape-allegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/news\/clone-royals-rocked-rape-allegation\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals rocked by rape allegation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Matthews, 74, was charged by French police with the rape of a minor in the late 1990s, after being seized by cops from the French Protection of Minors Brigade at Paris Orly Airport on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged assault is believed to have taken place on the French Island of St Barts, where Matthews has lived with his wife Jane for over 20 years.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">David Matthews, father-in-law of Pippa Middleton, charged with rape of a minor in France <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/auXPXueca7\">https:\/\/t.co\/auXPXueca7<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NprwJXcHGY\">pic.twitter.com\/NprwJXcHGY<\/a><\/p>&mdash; CP24 (@CP24) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CP24\/status\/979863074671943680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>&#13;\n\n<p>A French judicial official confirmed the arrest, and said Matthews has been released from custody and was not ordered to stay in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Their statement to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/\"><em>The Telegraph <\/em><\/a>read:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I confirm that David M was placed in police custody on 27 March at the Brigade for the Protection of Minors.<br><br \/>\n\t\t&#8220;Following his arrest, the Paris public prosecutor&#8217;s office opened a judicial investigation, overlooked by an examining magistrate.<br><br \/>\n\t\t&#8220;The investigations will now continue as a judicial investigation and will be led by an investigating judge.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Matthews has denied the &#8220;untrue and scandalous accusation,\u201d with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/\"><em>New York Times <\/em><\/a>reporting he faces potential charges of &#8220;rape on a minor by a person with authority over the victim.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bg-Nov4lTXq\/\" data-instgrm-version=\"8\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">   <p style=\" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bg-Nov4lTXq\/\" style=\" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ESC\u00c1NDALO REAL. David Matthews, suegro de Pippa Middleton, fue detenido el pasado martes 27 de marzo en Par\u00eds e inculpado el jueves por delito de violaci\u00f3n a menor. La denuncia fue presentada el a\u00f1o pasado y es ahora que el padre de James Matthews se va a enfrentar a la justicia. Un esc\u00e1ndalo que empapa a la cu\u00f1ada del pr\u00edncipe William poco antes de su primer aniversario de bodas. #pippamiddleton #jamesmatthews #davidmatthews #royalscandal #royalfamily #realeza #royalty #royals #instaroyals #royaltyreport<\/a><\/p> <p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A post shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/royalty.report\/\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Royalty Report<\/a> (@royalty.report) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2018-03-31T03:12:56+00:00\">Mar 30, 2018 at 8:12pm PDT<\/time><\/p><\/blockquote> <script async defer src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pippa Middleton\u2019s father-in-law has been detained on suspicion of historic rapes of a minor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-3736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.10 (Yoast SEO v21.5) - 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