THE THREE AMIGOS..

ANDREW Mountbatten-Windsor, Peter Mandelson and paedophile Jeffrey Epstein are seen together for the first time in a photograph from the Epstein files.

- BENEDICT TETZLAFF-DEAS & MIKEY SMITH

The picture, which emerged yesterday, shows them sitting on decking in a garden - with the then Prince and Mandelson in white robes.

It appears to have been taken on the same day as another snap of Epstein and Mandelson, which was released in a notorious "birthday book" prepared for the sex offender's 50th.

Both photos are thought to have been taken around 1999-2000 on Cape Cod, an island near Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts which is a holiday haven for the rich and powerful.

The photo, buried in hundreds of thousands of documents released by the US Department of Justice, shows Epstein sitting with the two British elites. The billionaire financier is the only one fully clothed. Stars and Stripes mugs sit on the wooden patio table between them.

While both Mountbatten-Windsor and Mandelson are known to have been friends with the late paedophile, it is the first time a picture has emerged of the trio together.