Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, previously His Royal Highness Prince Andrew, Duke of York, has been within the information for all of the unsuitable causes after his affiliation with late convicted-sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has made international headlines.
King Charles III has mentioned that he’s ‘able to assist’ the U.Ok. police in investigating the alleged misdemeanours of Andrew, his youthful brother. The King has additionally stripped the previous Prince of all his royal titles and privileges in late 2025.
This comes after a protracted historical past of murky ties between the previous Prince and the American sex-offender.
Right here’s all you could learn about it.
Prince Andrew’s ‘pal’ Ghislaine Maxwell
Within the Nineteen Nineties, Andrew was launched to Jeffrey Epstein by his long-term pal Ghislaine Maxwell, who has been discovered responsible of kid sex-trafficking and has used her ‘Fifth Modification Rights’ to keep away from commenting on the matter.
Additionally Learn | Ghislaine Maxwell declined to reply questions from a Home committee, citing fifth Modification rights
In a 2019 interview, Andrew admitted that he first met Epstein in 1999 by way of Maxwell, the latter’s girlfriend on the time. However, a 2011 letter from his then non-public secretary, contradicts this and exhibits that Andrew knew Epstein from the early Nineteen Nineties.
Widespread social circles
Andrew and Maxwell had been buddies since their days at Oxford College within the Nineteen Eighties. By the late Nineteen Nineties, the trio (Maxwell, Epstein and Andrew) have been so shut that they have been ceaselessly seen in high-profile events in London and New York.
Personal island visits to Balmoral keep
Andrew visited Little St. James in 1999, a personal property of Epstein and one that’s now within the middle of the various alleged abuses dedicated by the deceased sex-offender.
This undated photograph launched by Democrats on the Home Oversight Committee exhibits Jeffrey Epstein’s island within the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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Andrew additionally reportedly invited Maxwell and Epstein to remain at Balmoral Fort in Scotland. A well-known photograph of Maxwell and Epstein enjoyable at a log cabin within the property is on the market until date.
In the course of the 2021 Maxwell trials, jurors heard testimony that Andrew travelled on Epstein’s airplane, in early to mid-Nineteen Nineties, with a 14-year-old woman, sparking hypothesis concerning the involvement of the previous Royal with Epstein.
The years from 2000 to 2010, represents probably the most lively interval of the ties between Epstein and Andrew.
In 2002, Andrew reportedly gave Maxwell, Epstein and actor Kevin Spacey a behind-the-scenes tour of Buckingham Palace and even allowed Spacey and Epstein to take a seat on the thrones.
In July 2006, Epstein attended a high-profile masked ball at Windsor Fort, simply two months after an arrest warrant had been issued by the U.S. towards him for allegedly soliciting a minor.
However probably the most severe incidents vary from 2001, during which Virginia Giuffre alleged that she was compelled to have intercourse with Andrew at Maxwell’s Belgravia residence in March. That is the interval related to the notorious photograph of Andrew together with his hand round Giuffre’s waist.
Giuffre additional alleged that she was additionally abused at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion and his non-public island, later that very same yr.
2010 ‘breakup’
In 2010, Epstein was launched from a Florida jail after serving 13 months for soliciting a minor. Quickly after, Andrew visited him in New York and stayed on the Epstein mansion for a number of days. This he claims was to ‘sever ties in particular person.’ Nonetheless new paperwork launched in 2026 present that simply days earlier than this journey, Andrew invited Epstein to Buckingham Palace for “dinner and plenty of privateness.”
Leaked emails from 2011 additionally present Andrew allegedly telling Epstein, months after the official break up that “we’re on this collectively and we must rise above it.”
Minimize to 2026
In early 2026, extra “Epstein Information’ have been launched below the Epstein Information Transparency Act which included three undated footage of the previous Prince on all fours over an unidentified girl on a striped carpet.
New paperwork additionally present that Andrew allegedly leaked delicate paperwork to Epstein whereas serving because the U.Ok. commerce envoy. That is being investigated by U.Ok. Police to find out any violations of the Official Secrets and techniques Act.
Emails additionally present Epstein providing to introduce Andrew to a “intelligent and exquisite” Russian girl in 2010, which he reportedly accepted.
Printed – February 10, 2026 01:02 pm IST