Police probe Jeffrey Epstein’s time spent at Balmoral with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
The famous photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Balmoral is now at the centre of a police investigation.
Scottish authorities are making inquiries about the activities that took place while the convicted sex offender was at the royal residence in Scotland with the former prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
An undated photo from the DoJ files shows Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at a hunting lodge on the royal family’s Balmoral Estate. AP
British newspaper The Daily Express reported that the investigation is related to allegations women were trafficked to the royal residence.
A Police Scotland spokesperson confirmed it had “received information and active enquiries are ongoing” but added that “these are at a very early stage”.
“We have received information and active enquiries are ongoing but these are at a very early stage,” a Police Scotland spokesperson said in a statement to media outlets on Friday.
“All enquiries are evidence-led, with the needs of victim survivors at the heart of those enquiries. We would never confirm details of ongoing enquiries and it would be inappropriate to comment further.”
Scottish authorities are making inquiries about the activities that took place while the convicted sex offender was at the royal residence in Scotland with the former prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (pictured). Getty
Images released earlier this year by the US Department of Justice appeared to show Mountbatten-Windsor on a shooting trip at the estate with Epstein.
Mountbatten-Windsor’s brother King Charles has not commented on reports of these inquiries.
Buckingham Palace has consistently said that it does not speak for the 66-year-old former prince and does not comment on active police investigations.
Since the release of the Epstein files, Mountbatten-Windsor was stripped of his titles and has faced a slew of allegations over his links to the late sex offender.
Since the release of the Epstein files, Mountbatten-Windsor (third left) was stripped of his titles and has faced a slew of allegations over his links to the late sex offender. Justin Goff Photos/Getty Images
He was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office in February and interviewed under caution before being released. It was the first time in nearly four centuries that a senior British royal had been arrested.
The scandal has left Mountbatten-Windsor’s already battered reputation in tatters and plunged the royal family into crisis.
Pictures previously released by US prosecutors in 2021 appear to show Epstein and Maxwell, the financier’s right-hand woman currently serving time in a US federal prison for sex-trafficking and other crimes, at Balmoral in 1999.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor became the first senior British royal in nearly four centuries to be arrested. A Current Affair
Mountbatten-Windsor has vehemently denied any and all wrongdoing in his dealings with Epstein.
Police have said their investigation into misconduct in public office, relating to his time as a trade envoy for Britain, is still ongoing.
- Reported with CNN and Associated Press.
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