The Epstein scandals continue to pile up for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. Last week, a second Epstein victim came forward alleging a sexual encounter with the former prince, and the ex royal is seen in disturbing photos from the most recent Epstein files release last week.
The latest Epstein survivor to come forward regarding Mountbatten-Windsor has alleged she was sent to England to have sex with him in 2010.
Speaking through her lawyer, the woman who seeks to stay anonymous told the BBC that she had a sexual encounter with Mountbatten-Windsor at his home at Royal Lodge.
The woman — whom the BBC reported is “not British,” and was in her 20s at the time — says she was “sent” to the U.K. for this purpose by Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender who died by suicide in jail in 2019 after being arrested for sex trafficking minors.
After they had sex, the woman says that she spent the night at Royal Lodge, and that the following day, she had tea at Buckingham Palace. She claims she was also given a tour of the royal residence.
Neither Mountbatten-Windsor nor the palace have commented on this latest allegation.
This is the second Epstein survivor to make a claim involving Mountbatten-Windsor, but it’s the first that’s said to have occurred in a royal residence.
The new accusation mirrors certain aspects of the allegations made by Virginia Giuffre, who claimed that Epstein brought her to the U.K. to have sex with Mountbatten-Windsor in 2001.
Giuffre, who was a teenager at the time, alleged that she was sexually assaulted by Mountbatten-Windsor in London after they were introduced at the home of Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving 20 years in jail for her role in grooming young girls and women for Epstein. Giuffre, who died by suicide last year, alleged that she was sexually assaulted two more times by Mountbatten-Windsor: First in New York, and then at Epstein’s private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Mountbatten-Windsor denied all of Giuffre’s allegations. He did settle a civil suit she brought against him: While it reportedly included a significant financial settlement, he did not admit any wrongdoing as part of it.
The latest accusation also comes as new pictures of Mountbatten-Windsor emerged as part of the Epstein files release last week. The images, released by the U.S. Department of Justice without context, seem to show the former prince kneeling on all fours over an unidentified woman lying on the ground. In another image, he is touching the woman around her waist.
The document release also included new emails between Mountbatten-Windsor and Epstein. In one 2010 email — two years after Epstein was jailed for soliciting sex from a 14-year-old girl — Mountbatten-Windsor invited Epstein to Buckingham Palace for dinner, promising “lots of privacy.”
Over the weekend, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer suggested that Mountbatten-Windsor should answer to U.S. Congress about his relationship with Epstein. This is in response to a call by Democrats for the former prince to testify last November.
“In terms of testifying, I have always said anybody who has got information should be prepared to share that information,” Starmer said. “You can’t be victim-centred if you’re not prepared to do that. Epstein’s victims have to be the first priority.”
In October, King Charles stripped Andrew, his younger brother, of all his titles and evicted him from Royal Lodge, the site of this latest allegation and the royal residence where Mountbatten-Windsor has lived for years, essentially rent-free. While he is reportedly moving to Marsh Farm — a five-bedroom house on the Sandringham Estate, privately owned by the king — in the coming weeks, he is still living at Royal Lodge right now.
His ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, who still lives with him, also features in the new release of emails in the Epstein files. In messages that postdate Epstein’s 2008 conviction, Ferguson asks him for money to pay her rent, calls him the “brother I have always wished for” and says “marry me” in another email where she calls him a “legend.”
Mountbatten-Windsor and Ferguson’s two daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, are also mentioned in passing in emails believed to be written by their mother. In one, seemingly discussing travel plans, the message says that the sender is “waiting for Eugenie to come back from a shagging weekend.”
Neither princess has commented publicly on this matter.
