{"id":2295391,"date":"2026-02-23T13:57:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2295391"},"modified":"2026-02-23T13:57:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:57:06","slug":"big-questions-for-palace-over-andrew-says-ex-head-of-uk-royal-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/big-questions-for-palace-over-andrew-says-ex-head-of-uk-royal-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Big questions&#8217; for Palace over Andrew, says ex-head of UK royal protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FG3yANSYlM4?autoplay=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor&#8217;s security officers are likely to have information on potential misconduct, the former head of the UK royal protection, Dai Davies, has told Sky News.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wherever he (Andrew) went, he would have had a team of protection officers and they would have been with him normally 24 hours a day,&#8221; Davies explained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Clearly at night they&#8217;re not in the bedroom with him, but they&#8217;re nearby, so that in the event of an incident, they could act in accordance with their training.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;Many of them had been with him for years, and they would have gone to all the five residents [of Jeffrey Epstein] that we&#8217;ve been talking about in the United States, Virgin Islands, New Mexico, and Florida. So it&#8217;s inconceivable to me, I&#8217;m sad to say, that nobody saw anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Andrew has vigorously denied any wrongdoing in relation to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The former prince has only been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/andrew-latest-search-of-mountbatten-windsors-former-home-continues-as-government-plans-to-remove-ex-prince-from-royal-line-of-succession-13501106<\/p>\n<p>#andrewmountbattenwindsor #royalfamily #epsteinfiles #skynews <\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/skynews<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on TikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@skynews <\/p>\n<p>For more content go to http:\/\/news.sky.com and download our apps: Apple https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/sky-news\/id316391924?mt=8 Android https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.bskyb.skynews.android&#038;hl=en_GB <\/p>\n<p>Sky News Daily podcast is available for free here: https:\/\/podfollow.com\/skynewsdaily\/ <\/p>\n<p>To enquire about licensing Sky News content, you can find more information here: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/info\/library-sales<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FG3yANSYlM4\">Video Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor&#8217;s security officers are likely to have information on potential misconduct, the former head of the UK royal protection, Dai Davies, has told Sky News. &#8220;Wherever he (Andrew) went, he would have had a team of protection officers and they would have been with him normally 24 hours a day,&#8221; Davies explained. &#8220;Clearly at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2295392,"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":[25180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2295391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771855025_maxresdefault.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295391","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2295391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2295393,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295391\/revisions\/2295393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2295392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2295391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2295391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2295391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}