Andrew Mountbatten Windsor’s continued relationship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein after he was convicted of sex with a child is laid bare in further correspondence and pictures released yesterday.
Newly released files from the US Department of Justice expose emails between the pair including an invitation for Epstein to have dinner at Buckingham Palace in 2010 just months after his release from jail for procuring a child for prostitution.
A series of bizarre pictures of a barefoot and casually dressed Andrew kneeling on the floor bending over an outstretched young woman have also been released.
The uncaptioned and undated pictures show Andrew on all fours looking up at the camera as he looms over the motionless young woman who is lying on her back wearing black leggings and a white top.
In one he is looking down and touching the woman’s abdomen as she appears to move her arm. In the background, someone’s crossed and bare feet can be seen up on a table.
A chain of emails between Epstein and an account called ‘the Duke’ in August 2010 also detail Epstein offering and arranging to set up a dinner for Andrew in the same year with a woman he describes as ‘a 26 year old beautiful, clever and trustworthy Russian’ because he thinks ‘he might enjoy having dinner with her’.
Andrew responds with an email which is signed ‘A’ saying: ‘Of course. I am in Geneva until the morning of 22nd but would be delighted to see her. Will she be bringing a message from you? Please give her my contact details to get in touch.’
His email is finished off with an official email signature ‘HRH The Duke of York KG’ – referring to his Knight of the Garter honour.
Disturbing new images released as part of last night’s Epstein files appear to show Andrew Mountbatten Windsor crouching on all fours over a female lying on the floor
In the three images, a man who appears to be the former Prince, can be seen crouching over the person who is sprawled face up with their arms spread out
It is unclear where the images where taken and no further context is given
This highest of honours – bestowed on him by his late mother, the Queen – was stripped from him along with his title by King Charles after previous revelations about the pair’s close relationship surfaced last year.
Epstein confirms to Andrew that the woman has his email to which he responds
‘That was quick! How are you? Good to be free?’
Epstein says: ‘(redacted).. great to be free of many things.’
The exchange ends with Andrew saying: ‘So many opportunities that I am frustratingly not allowed to participate in. And so many that are obvious but can’t get anyone to fire on.
Must come and see you sometime soon.’
The files also contain an apparent invite from Andrew for the then convicted sex offender to visit him at Buckingham Palace in September 2010.
In the exchange, Epstein tells Andrew he is in London, and Andrew replies ‘I am just departing Scotland should be down by 1800. I’ll ring you when I get down if you can give me a number to ring.
Epstein had offered to set up a dinner for Andrew with a ‘clever, beautiful and trustworthy’ 26-year-old Russian woman, saying: ‘She has your email.’ The prince, who would have been 50 at the time, replied that he would be ‘delighted to see her’. And he cheerfully asked the convicted child sex predator, whose house arrest had finished just days earlier: ‘Good to be free?’
An email addressed to the ‘Invisible Man’, who signs emails off as ‘A’, refers to him as ‘super sperm’
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was spotted driving his car on the Windsor Estate this morning just hours after the latest tranche of documents in the Epstein files were released
‘Alternatively we could have dinner at Buckingham Palace and lots of privacy.
‘”A.”‘
Further emails include details of Epstein’s intention to visit Andrew at other royal residences including Royal Lodge on the Windsor estate, the home he is now being forced to quit in disgrace.
The friendly messages between the pair are among three million files, 180,000 images and more than 2000 videos released in a surprise move at around 4pm UK time yesterday afternoon.
The release of the files which the administration had been ordered to make public was over a month late from the release deadline but officials said it had taken so long ‘to properly vet the documents’.
They were released in compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act which was signed by Donald Trump last November agreeing to make public everything held on the disgraced financier. They add to the half a million files already released.
The so -called ‘Epstein files’ contain mountains of evidence accumulated by the DoJ on his activities and include hundreds of mentions on Trump himself, many from anonymous calls to an FBI national tipline – some of them claims of sexual abuse – which the DoJ insist are ‘unfounded and false’.
They come from a list compiled by the FBI last year based on the calls which the DoJ say are ‘unverified’ and made ‘without supporting evidence’. Mr Trump has consistently denied any wrongdoing with regard to Epstein.
A picture of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor lying across a row of women in a photo during a black-tie event with Ghislaine Maxwell was released as part of the Epstein files in December
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Jeffrey Epstein in December 2010.The former prince invited the paedophile to dinner at Buckingham Palace days after his house arrest ended
Andrew appeared in surprisingly high spirits as he was seen horse riding later in the day
At other times he appeared disgruntled while out riding near Windsor Castle with his groom
Republican congressman Glenn Grothman told the BBC today that he believed that if there had been ‘anything damaging’ to the President in the files ‘Biden would have released them during his presidency’.
He also told Radio 4’s Today programme that a million further pages of the files were being released for congressmen to look through.
US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said it would be the last release from the files but Epstein survivors have claimed only around 50 per cent of the information they hold on Epstein has been released despite promises of full transparency.
The evidence was among that accumulated from material found at Epstein’s multiple residences but had been controversially held back by successive US administrations since the billionaire financier killed himself in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on further sex offences.
In a press conference yesterday, Mr Blanche denied anyone had been protected including the President, saying: ‘We did not protect President Trump, we didn’t protect or not protect anybody. There’s a hunger, a thirst for information that I do not think will be satisfied by the review of these documents. There’s nothing I can do about that.’
A lawyer representing some of the paedophile’s victims, who fought for the release of the files, told the BBC today that they do not ‘trust’ the DoJ and believe that ‘they are holding more back’ and have been ‘selective’ in their release.
Mary Fitilchyan, from the Bloom Firm in LA, said Epstein was ‘well connected and high profile’.
‘He had other wealthy high profile people in his circle, some may have been co-conspirators and engaged in other sexual crimes with him.
Emails between Andrew and Epstein revealed in the Epstein files
Andrew promised ‘lots of privacy’ to the convicted paedophile shortly after he was granted his freedom following a conviction for soliciting a minor
The email exchange between an address named ‘The Invisible Man’ and Maxwell in August 2002 show the pair talking about organising a weekend together on ‘the Island’
‘There is a sentiment that some of these people are being protected. The survivors’ main focus and worry is that they are being protected,’ she told Radio 4’s Today programme.
Many of the pages of the files are heavily redacted which have led to calls for full transparency from Republicans and Democrats. In a joint statement, Epstein survivors said they ‘would not stop until the truth was released’.
The latest release also reveals more about Epstein’s contact with Sarah Ferguson and a host of public figures including Lord Mandelson and their continued contact after his conviction.
In 2009, when incredibly Epstein was still under house arrest, emails which appear to be between Epstein and Andrew’s ex-wife include an email from her saying ‘I am landing in Palm Beach in a couple of hours. Is there any chance on my quick layover that I can get to have a cup of tea?’.
Further embarrassing emails are made public between Lord Mandelson, who was sacked from his role as Washington ambassador last year because of his relationship with Epstein revealed in emails from 2008 in the first tranche of released files, and Epstein.
In the newly released series of emails, the then Business Secretary is said to have asked Epstein in 2009 when he was a senior Labour cabinet minister and Epstein was still serving his prison sentence in Florida, whether he can stay at his New York apartment on a visit to the US.
He suggests to Mandelson that because of the press interest he might wish to stay in another property of his. Mandelson responds that he was on a private visit and ‘the facilities are better’ at Epstein’s apartment. It is believed he did not stay at any of the properties in the end.
The files also reveal that later in 2009 when Epstein was released from prison Lord Mandelson’s now husband and then partner asked and received money for an osteopathy course he wanted to go on. A sum of £10,000 was paid to him but emails between Epstein and his accountant in 2010 suggest that further payments were made.
Epstein was found dead inside his New York prison cell in 2019. His death was ruled suicide by hanging
Lord Mandelson has said he is ‘neither culpable or complicit in Epstein’s crimes’ and has apologised to his victims for continuing his association with Epstein.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is also thrust under the spotlight in the latest file release. He has rejected allegations which appear in messages that Epstein apparently drafted that he contracted a sexually transmitted disease from Russian girls Epstein set him up with and later asked Epstein for antibiotics he could secretly dose his wife of the time Melinda with.
A spokesman for Mr Gates has said that the allegations are ‘absolutely absurd and completely false’.
A document in the files released yesterday also confirms that the US authorities formally requested an interview with the former Prince in 2020 in connection with their enquiries into the paedophile’s crimes.
The former Prince was asked for assistance as he may have been a ‘witness to and/or participant in certain events’ relevant to their investigation.
In his disastrous Newnight interview in 2019, Andrew indicated he would be prepared to help US authorities but in 2020, American federal prosecutor Geoffrey Berman said that Andrew had in fact provided ‘zero cooperation’ with the federal prosecutors and the FBI. He has always denied any wrongdoing.
