Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor ‘should be prepared’ to testify before the US Congress about his links to Jeffrey Epstein, after he featured in the latest disclosure of files related to the disgraced paedophile financier, Sir Keir Starmer has suggested.
A ‘victim-centred’ approach to dealing with Epstein is the reason Andrew should share information in ‘whatever form’ he is asked, the Prime Minister added.
Pictures which appear to show Andrew crouched over an unidentified woman are featured in the latest disclosure of files linked to Epstein.
The images are among more than three million documents published by the US Department of Justice on Friday, including images of a man who appears to be Andrew kneeling on the floor next to a woman lying down.
As he arrived in Japan for the final leg of his visit to East Asia, Sir Keir was asked if Andrew should apologise and testify to the congressional Epstein investigation.
The Prime Minister replied: ‘Firstly I always approach this question with the victims of Epstein’s in mind. Epstein’s victims have to be the first priority.
‘Whether there should be an apology, that’s a matter for Andrew.
‘But, yes, in terms of testifying, I’ve always said anybody who’s got information should be prepared to share that information in whatever form they’re asked to do that because you can’t be victim-centred if you’re not prepared to do that.’
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor ‘should be prepared’ to testify before the US Congress about his links to Jeffrey Epstein, after he featured in the latest disclosure of files related to the disgraced paedophile financier, Sir Keir Starmer has suggested
Pictures which appear to show Andrew crouched over an unidentified woman are featured in the latest disclosure of files linked to Epstein
The images are among more than three million documents published by the US Department of Justice on Friday, including images of a man who appears to be Andrew kneeling on the floor next to a woman lying down
A ‘victim-centred’ approach to dealing with Epstein is the reason Andrew should share information in ‘whatever form’ he is asked, the Prime Minister said
The latest pictures, released in a document of 100 pages of photographs, also appear to show the former duke touching the woman’s abdomen.
Another unidentified person’s feet are up on a table in the background.
They have no captions and it is not known where they were taken.
Elsewhere in the document dump, screenshots and scans appear to show the former prince exchanged emails with Epstein about a ‘beautiful’ Russian woman and invited him to Buckingham Palace.
Lord Mandelson, the former ambassador to the US, also features in the release of files.
The peer was sacked as the chief envoy to Washington DC after revelations of his continued contact with Epstein following his guilty plea in 2008 to soliciting prostitution and soliciting a minor.
Lord Mandelson has offered an unequivocal apology to Epstein’s victims.
The documents showed exchanges between Epstein and Reinaldo Avila da Silva, the husband of Lord Mandelson, about paying a fee for him to attend the British School of Osteopathy.
One email referred to a £10,000 transfer from Epstein.
Sir Keir was asked if the payment, apparently made while Lord Mandelson was serving as business secretary, fell below the standards of a peer of the realm.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor leaves Royal Lodge for a ride in Windsor Great Park on January 31
A ‘victim-centred’ approach to dealing with Epstein is the reason Andrew should share information in ‘whatever form’ he is asked, the Prime Minister added
The Prime Minister replied: ‘In relation to Peter Mandelson, obviously he was removed as ambassador in relation to the further information that came to light in September of last year and I’ve nothing more to say in relation to Peter Mandelson.’
It comes after earlier today it emerged Andrew sent photographs of his daughters Eugenie and Beatrice to Epstein at Christmas as the princesses were dragged into the latest scandal to hit their disgraced parents.
The King’s brother, 65, included a series of snaps of the sisters in two festive emails sent in 2011 and 2012, files released by the US Department of Justice last night show.
The pictures were sent when Eugenie was 21 and 22, and Beatrice was 23 and 24, after the disgraced financier’s 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.
The intimate family snaps were sent up to two years after the former prince previously claimed to have cut off all contact with the paedophile.
The image of him proudly showing off his daughters’ exploits as a doting father figure draws a stark contrast with the secret life he and ex-wife Sarah lived behind closed doors as they rubbed shoulders with the rich and powerful.
The emails were released as part of a tranche of some three million documents relating to Epstein by the US government on Friday, and were just a fraction of the embarrassing content for the former Duke and Duchess of York.
The latest revelations leave Beatrice and Eugenie in ‘trying times’, royal expert Jennie Bond said today, as the sisters struggle to navigate their father’s increasingly humiliating position ostracised from the royal family.
