Ex-Prince Andrew moves out of royal home amid new Epstein revelations

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London — Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the younger member of King Charles II who was antecedently known arsenic Prince Andrew, has moved retired of his sprawling Royal Lodge location successful Windsor arsenic further details look astir his narration with the precocious convicted enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Mountbatten-Windsor's determination to Sandringham, King Charles' monolithic backstage property successful Norfolk, eastbound England, was announced by Buckingham Palace successful October and had been expected successful aboriginal 2026.

No ceremonial announcement was made by the royal household astir the move, but CBS News understands that, arsenic of Wednesday morning, Mountbatten-Windsor was surviving successful Sandringham.

The quiescent determination came days aft the U.S. Department of Justice released 3 cardinal much documents and photos relating to Epstein, respective of which uncover previously-unknown contacts betwixt the erstwhile prince and the disgraced pedophile financier.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor Reportedly Moves Out Of Royal Lodge

The documents published by the U.S. authorities see a 2011 missive from a lawyer claiming then-Prince Andrew and Epstein asked an unidentified "exotic dancer" to "engage successful assorted enactment acts" during a enactment with "other young women dressed provocatively," immoderate of whom "appeared to beryllium arsenic young arsenic 14 years old."

"Mr. Epstein and Prince Andrew past told my lawsuit they wanted to person a threesome," the lawyer for the pistillate — who died successful 2020 — writes successful the letter.

"After the men had satisfied themselves," the missive continues, "they invited my lawsuit to instrumentality a travel with them to the Virgin Islands. She declined their invitation. She was past chauffeured backmost to the portion club."

The lawyer goes connected to allege that the pistillate was not paid what she was promised, and that she aboriginal agreed to support her "interactions" with Epstein and Mountbatten-Windsor backstage successful instrumentality for $250,000.

The files besides see an alleged speech successful 2010 betwixt Mountbatten-Windsor and Epstein successful which the royal invites Epstein to person meal astatine Buckingham Palace. In his reply, Epstein mentions that helium is with respective women, whose names are redacted, and helium offers to "bring them all. So arsenic to adhd immoderate life."

"Yes, plentifulness of abstraction present for chat," Mountbatten-Windsor replies successful the evident exchange. "Bring them."

In different email from a period before, Mountbatten-Windsor allegedly wrote to Epstein: "God it's acold and dank here! Wish I was inactive a favored successful your family!"

UK Front Pages Lead With New Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor Image As Further Epstein Files Released

There were besides photos released by the Justice Department, including an representation successful which Mountbatten-Windsor appears to beryllium connected each fours implicit a woman, whose look is obscured, lying connected the floor. In another, helium is shown touching a pistillate of the aforesaid quality connected the waist, looking down astatine her, and successful a 3rd his manus is seen connected her stomach.

The woman's identity, on with the determination and day of the image, are unknown, but the revelations person piled much unit connected the king's member to explicate himself.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor nether unit to testify

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Saturday that Mountbatten-Windsor should cooperate with investigators.

"In presumption of testifying, I've ever said anybody who's got accusation should beryllium prepared to stock that accusation successful immoderate signifier they're asked to bash that, due to the fact that you can't beryllium victim-centered if you're not prepared to bash that," Starmer said.

Speaking to CBS News' spouse web BBC News connected Wednesday, Epstein subsister Lisa Phillips said Andrew testifying, "would beryllium everything."

Mountbatten-Windsor has not replied to a petition from U.S. House Oversight Committee members to clasp a "transcribed interview" astir his "long-standing friendship" with Epstein.

CBS News has reached retired to Mountbatten-Windsor's representatives for comment. He has not responded truthful far, and successful the past has ever denied immoderate wrongdoing.

King Charles stripped his member of his royal titles past year, aft aggravated scrutiny implicit his relationship with Epstein and accusations made by Virginia Giuffre that she was trafficked to prosecute successful enactment with Mountbatten-Windsor erstwhile she was underage.

Mountbatten-Windsor denied those allegations, but reached a settlement with Giuffre successful 2022, paying her around $16 million, according to British media reports. Giuffre died by termination past year.

A intersexual brushwood astatine a royal residence?

On Tuesday, Thames Valley Police, which covers respective counties successful the southbound of England, said it was assessing allegations reported by the BBC that Epstein had sent a 2nd pistillate to the U.K. for a intersexual brushwood with Mountbatten-Windsor.

The alleged brushwood occurred astatine Royal Lodge successful Windsor, Andrew's erstwhile home, successful 2010, according to the BBC.

"We're talking astir astatine slightest 1 woman" isolated from Giuffre, "who was sent by Jeffrey Epstein implicit to Prince Andrew," the unidentified 2nd woman's lawyer, Brad Edwards, told the British nationalist broadcaster.

The woman, successful her 20s astatine the time, was fixed beverage and a circuit of Buckingham Palace aft spending the nighttime astatine the Royal Lodge, according to Edwards. According to the BBC, it is the archetypal clip an alleged Epstein subsister has claimed to person had a sexual brushwood astatine a royal residence.

Mountbatten-Windsor moved to Sandringham — a 31-square mile property with a fig of abstracted houses — Monday night, but it's expected that helium could revisit Windsor implicit the coming weeks arsenic helium completes his move.

The erstwhile prince was past seen successful Windsor connected Monday, riding a equine adjacent his erstwhile home.

Justifying the determination past October to region his royal titles and extremity his lease of the Royal Lodge successful Windsor, Buckingham Palace said successful a connection that the measures were "deemed necessary, notwithstanding the information that [Mountbatten-Windsor] continues to contradict the allegations against him."

The palace connection added that King Charles and Queen Camilla "wish to marque wide that their thoughts and utmost sympathies person been, and volition stay with, the victims and survivors of immoderate and each forms of abuse."

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