{"id":2274612,"date":"2026-02-09T20:01:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2274612"},"modified":"2026-02-09T20:01:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:01:34","slug":"king-ready-to-work-with-police-over-andrew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/king-ready-to-work-with-police-over-andrew\/","title":{"rendered":"King ready to work with police over Andrew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-test=\"article-body-text\">\n<p>Police are also assessing claims that Mr Mountbatten-Windsor passed on confidential information to Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>Emails suggest that Mr Mountbatten-Windsor passed on information to the convicted paedophile about what had been discussed during his visits as UK trade envoy.<\/p>\n<p>A message sent by Amit Patel, then Mr Mountbatten-Windsor\u2019s special assistant, in November 2010, contained reports of what had been discussed on visits to Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam and China.<\/p>\n<p>Thames Valley Police confirmed on Monday that it was \u201cassessing the information in line with our established procedures\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, the Prince of Wales has deferred to his father in dealing with the \u201cAndrew issue\u201d, with a source repeating that he supports the King\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>However, he is said to have privately pushed for a firmer line in dealing with it. Before the release of the latest Epstein files, he was also understood to have been mindful of Mr Mountbatten-Windsor\u2019s mental health under extreme public pressure.<\/p>\n<p>A leading US Democrat urged the King and Queen <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/us\/politics\/2026\/02\/09\/epstein-files-bring-down-monarchy-andrew\/\">to \u201canswer questions\u201d about Epstein<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Ro Khanna, who helped to force the release of\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/us\/news\/2026\/02\/09\/epstein-victims-demand-release-files-super-bowl-advert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Epstein files<\/a>, said Mr Mountbatten-Windsor\u2019s relationship with the disgraced financier could \u201cbring down the British monarchy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Khanna said the Royal family is the \u201cmost vulnerable it has ever been\u201d after fresh details about the former prince\u2019s relationship with Epstein were laid bare in\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2026\/02\/06\/everything-the-epstein-files-have-told-us-so-far\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">three million documents published<\/a>\u00a0by the US department of justice (DoJ) on Jan 30.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Monday, the Prince and Princess of Wales said they were \u201cdeeply concerned\u201d by the \u201ccontinuing revelations\u201d of the Epstein files, which include numerous documents to, from and about Mr Mountbatten-Windsor, the Prince of Wales\u2019s uncle.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released on Monday, a spokesman for Kensington Palace said: \u201cI can confirm The Prince and Princess of Wales have been deeply concerned by the continuing revelations. Their thoughts remain focused on the victims.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.telegraph.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are also assessing claims that Mr Mountbatten-Windsor passed on confidential information to Epstein. Emails suggest that Mr Mountbatten-Windsor passed on information to the convicted paedophile about what had been discussed during his visits as UK trade envoy. A message sent by Amit Patel, then Mr Mountbatten-Windsor\u2019s special assistant, in November 2010, contained reports of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2274613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[403835,21738,23068,37936,22769,344742,425843,24515,356051,382398,392429],"class_list":["post-2274612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-andrew-mountbatten-windsor","tag-news","tag-prince-william","tag-princess-of-wales","tag-royal-family","tag-standard","tag-the-epstein-files","tag-the-royal-family","tag-uk-news","tag-us-content","tag-virginia-roberts-giuffre"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/King-ready-to-work-with-police-over-Andrew.avif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2274612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2274614,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274612\/revisions\/2274614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2274612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2274612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2274612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}