Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor takes legal action against UK police over Epstein arrest
King Charles’ younger brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has launched legal action against police in England over his arrest earlier this year on suspicion of misconduct in public office following revelations from the Epstein files in the United States.
In 2025, King Charles stripped his younger brother of his title as prince, following public outcry after the release of a posthumous memoir by Virginia Giuffre, a prominent accuser of Epstein who alleged that Mountbatten-Windsor had sexually assaulted her as a teenager.
The former Duke of York became the first senior royal in centuries to be arrested in February, the latest extraordinary development in a yearslong scandal over his ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, which obliterated his reputation and has thrown the royal family into crisis.
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