{"id":2304716,"date":"2026-02-28T08:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T08:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2304716"},"modified":"2026-02-28T08:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T08:42:08","slug":"andrew-mountbatten-windsor-could-be-flight-risk-royal-expert-claims-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/andrew-mountbatten-windsor-could-be-flight-risk-royal-expert-claims-royal-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor could be &#8216;flight risk&#8217;, royal expert claims | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-andrew\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor<\/a> is a \u201cflight risk\u201d and will \u201cnot face justice\u201d, a royal expert has claimed. The former Duke of York, who has lost his titles, honours and home and <a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2176186\/andrew-plaque-removed-inverness\" target=\"_blank\">now has the status of a commoner,<\/a> was arrested this month on suspicion of misconduct in public office during his time as the UK\u2019s trade envoy between 2001 &#8211; 2011.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>He was held in custody for 11 hours before being released under investigation. The arrest came after the latest tranche of Jeffrey Epstein files revealed that he may have shared confidential information with the convicted sex offender. Andrew has always denied any wrongdoing. Andrew\u2019s arrest brought a fresh wave of humiliation for the Royal Family, who have tried to distance themselves from Andrew.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Now, a royal commentator said that he won\u2019t be charged, but he is a flight risk. Historian Andrew Lownie told Daily Expresso: \u201cNo, I don&#8217;t think he will face justice. I think he&#8217;s a flight risk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThey didn&#8217;t take his passport away. My sources tell me that he&#8217;s so confident that he won&#8217;t be charged, he doesn&#8217;t think he needs to worry about disappearing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Ensure our latest royal headlines always appear at the top of your Google Search by making us a Preferred Source. <\/strong><strong><a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=express.co.uk&amp;hl=en_GB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Click here to activate<\/a><\/strong><strong> or just add us as Preferred Source in your Google search settings.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In his new column for the <a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15599277\/BORIS-JOHNSON-Prince-Andrew-Mountbatten-Windsor-tea-embarrass-royals.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Daily Mail<\/a>, the former Prime Minister, who was also Mayor of London between 2008 and 2016, spoke about their first \u201cbizarre\u201d meeting together at Buckingham Palace. He claimed Andrew wanted to \u201cknock down\u201d one of London\u2019s most famous buildings &#8211; \u00adBattersea Power Station. The iconic Grade II* listed building is located on the south bank of the River Thames.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>const Init=()=>{const interval=setInterval(()=>{if(typeof window.utag_data.consentData!=='undefined'){clearInterval(interval);ExpressApp.Log('[Facebook] consent data',window.utag_data.consentData)\nif(!window.isVendorConsented(window.utag_data.consentData,20,!0)){return!1}\nconst publisherPurposes=window.utag_data.consentData.tcfv2consent?.publisher?.consents\nconst consentPurposes=window.utag_data.consentData.tcfv2consent?.purpose?.consents\nif(!publisherPurposes[1]||!publisherPurposes[2]||!publisherPurposes[3]||!publisherPurposes[4]||!consentPurposes[1]||!consentPurposes[2]||!consentPurposes[3]||!consentPurposes[4]){return!1}\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');fbq('init','331470507705028');fbq('trackSingle','331470507705028','PageView')}else{ExpressApp.Log('[Facebook] Facebook is waiting for consent data')}},100)}\nif(typeof flagTcfLoaded!=='undefined'&&flagTcfLoaded){Init()}else{document.addEventListener('tcfLoaded',()=>{Init()})}<\/script><\/p>\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.express.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is a \u201cflight risk\u201d and will \u201cnot face justice\u201d, a royal expert has claimed. The former Duke of York, who has lost his titles, honours and home and now has the status of a commoner, was arrested this month on suspicion of misconduct in public office during his time as the UK\u2019s trade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2304717,"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":[351160,403835,407461,422595,22942,22931,179514,22769,350249,22089],"class_list":["post-2304716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-andrew","tag-andrew-mountbatten-windsor","tag-andrew-news","tag-flight-risk","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-prince-andrew","tag-prince-andrew-news","tag-royal-family","tag-royal-family-scandal","tag-royal-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Andrew-Mountbatten-Windsor-could-be-flight-risk-royal-expert-claims.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304716","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=2304716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2304718,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304716\/revisions\/2304718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2304717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2304716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2304716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2304716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}