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Who knew what when? The questions for protection staff

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November 02, 2025

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor might have been stripped of his titles and forced to move from Royal Lodge, but questions remain about who knew what and when in the years Andrew maintained his friendship with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

- Susie Boniface

Sources say that before Andrew's visits to Epstein's homes in New York and Florida, taxpayer-funded royal protection officers would have conducted standard background checks with local US law enforcement.

Florida police began investigating Epstein in 2005, and a year later the case was taken over by the FBI. In 2008, Epstein agreed to a plea deal for soliciting an underage teenager. Andrew visited him in New York in 2009 and 2010, and if protocol was followed, his personal police officers should have been made aware of the allegations, Epstein's guilty plea and his prison sentence.

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