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Photographs appear to show former Prince Andrew on all fours leaning over a girl or lady mendacity on the floor, within the latest release of Epstein files from the US Department of Justice on Friday.
In one undated picture, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor seems immediately on the digicam as he crouches over the absolutely clothed determine, whose face has been obscured.
Another {photograph} reveals Mountbatten-Windsor’s hand positioned on the identical particular person’s stomach. In the background, one other unidentified particular person props their ft up on a desk, which has a stack of towels on it.
The newest Epstein paperwork additionally include an e mail alternate between convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein and Mountbatten-Windsor in August 2010 during which the disgraced financier invitations the royal to meet a “friend” for dinner in London.
Mountbatten-Windsor replies he could be “delighted to see her” and tells Epstein to give her his contact particulars.
Epstein then describes her as a 26-year-old Russian that’s “clevere (sic) beautiful, trustworthy,” and confirms that she has Mountbatten-Windsor’s e mail.
The messages are despatched two years after Epstein pleaded responsible to soliciting intercourse with a minor.
More than a month later, in one other set of emails, Epstein and Mountbatten-Windsor make plans to meet in London. Mountbatten-Windsor suggests dinner at Buckingham Palace the place they might have “lots of privacy.” Epstein writes that the pair will “need/have private time.”
It is unclear when or the place the pictures have been taken; no captions or context for the pictures was offered with the doc launch. Neither the pictures nor the e-mail messages counsel any wrongdoing. NCS has tried to contact Mountbatten-Windsor for remark.
Mountbatten-Windsor has at all times denied all accusations in opposition to him and insisted that he never witnessed or suspected any of the conduct of which Epstein was accused. In a now-infamous BBC interview in 2019, he mentioned that he severed all ties with Epstein in 2010.
The Justice Department on Friday launched its latest tranche of files associated to the investigation into Epstein, six weeks after its Congressional deadline to achieve this.
The new images and e mail exchanges are possible to solid further scrutiny on Mountbatten-Windsor over Epstein hyperlinks, which ultimately led King Charles to strip his brother of his “prince” title and evict him from his Windsor mansion in a unprecedented transfer final yr.
Buckingham Palace didn’t supply a recent assertion when approached by NCS on Saturday. Instead, it pointed to its October 2025 statement outlining King Charles’ choice to take away Mountbatten-Windsor’s type, titles and honors.
Last month, the DOJ launched one other cache of Epstein recordsdata, which underlined Mountbatten-Windsor’s relationship with not solely Epstein however Epstein’s then-girlfriend, disgraced former British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell.
In one e mail, an individual recognized as solely “A” wrote from the British royal family’s Scottish residence in 2001, asking whether or not Maxwell had “found me some new inappropriate friends.” A separate set of emails seems to show Maxwell serving to plan a visit to Peru for “A” that entails “girls.”