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New allegations against Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

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Muffinmam · 03/11/2025 01:18

Last night an episode of 60 Minutes (Australia) aired and an allegation was
made that it wasn’t just girls who were trafficked to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor by Ghislane and Epstein - there were also young boys.

I’ve included the link below:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hk-9SfptZlU&pp=0gcJCR4Bo7VqN5tD

This allegation never made it into the book because the writer never had a second witness to concur. However, he revealed it in the 60 Minutes interview last night and 60 Minutes aired what is a defamatory allegation - which makes me think that 60 Minutes felt confident it was true (otherwise their lawyers would have killed the story). It was a very short reference but British Police need to interview Ghislane as to Andrew’s other victims.

Further, AIBU to think that the Royal Protection officers should be made to answer questions as to criminality involving Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor?

Also, how can Beatrice & Eugenie still support their disgusting father after everything we know? Do they not care about their own children? Particularly Beatrice’s young step son. Hopefully Andrew is not allowed anywhere near this boy.

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Horsie · 03/11/2025 09:29

waitamo · 03/11/2025 09:24

My question always is - what did Epstein get out of all this procurement and parties where rich, famous, political and financial "names" gathered in the one place? Was he a deeply placed spy or something? Did he charge for these services or was he blackmailing the lot of them and getting State secrets? Always puzzled me.

As for A. Boys or girls, it doesn't matter - it was reprehensible.

A is the sacrificial lamb, but rightly so. He's obviously not as well protected as the rest of the disgusting customers.

In terms of what Epstein got out of hanging round the rich and famous, I think it was a veneer of respectability and importance, the better to let his crimes go under the radar. He told VG that he "owned" the police department. Joel Kenda is a retired police detective with a really high solve rate, and he has a TV series. He said that many psychopaths try to befriend the police, in order to better get away with stuff. OJ Simpson was the same, always inviting the police up for a few beers. Allowed him better chances of being able to write his wife's frequent calls to the police off as mere domestics.

Happyher · 03/11/2025 09:31

Needspaceforlego · 03/11/2025 09:05

I think there is a heck of a lot of stuff being kept pretty quiet.

Sling lots of mud at Andrew while keeping others out the hot seat.

I want to know what else is being covered up.

I feel the same as you. I can’t believe the US are threatening to subpoena him to tell them what he knows. Why don’t they subpoena Trump and Melania? If I was Andrew I’d tell them to get stuffed and write a tell all book about who was there. That doesn’t mean I condone what he’s alleged to have done

Mymanyellow · 03/11/2025 09:31

Horsie · 03/11/2025 09:15

Oh yes, that's a really good point about the Woking Pizza Express thing. Why has no one ever come forward who was at said party?

I have said this over and over. Surely just a simple matter of someone saying’oh yeah he was at my dc party’

BeeWitchy · 03/11/2025 09:31

waitamo · 03/11/2025 09:24

My question always is - what did Epstein get out of all this procurement and parties where rich, famous, political and financial "names" gathered in the one place? Was he a deeply placed spy or something? Did he charge for these services or was he blackmailing the lot of them and getting State secrets? Always puzzled me.

As for A. Boys or girls, it doesn't matter - it was reprehensible.

A is the sacrificial lamb, but rightly so. He's obviously not as well protected as the rest of the disgusting customers.

Epstein got money and power over girls, over other powerful men. He started out as a school teacher (god what a thought).

Andrew opened himself up to what is happening now with the Newsnight interview. Chances are if he’d kept his mouth shut things would be very different for him. It’s likely that Virginia would not have been able to sue him. He probably was protected until that.

MissBattleaxe · 03/11/2025 09:33

cafenoirbiscuit · 03/11/2025 05:39

Wasn’t there an allegation about a British PM having had sex with VG? That story seems to be being kept pretty quiet.

It wasn't a British PM.

dagoo · 03/11/2025 09:34

ohdelay · 03/11/2025 09:28

This, you've expressed it perfectly, couldn't work out why this made me so uncomfortable. What's the difference between raping trafficked girls vs boys? Is it homophobia or misogyny?

It's not worse, it's just more. It's not possible to draw a line under ABW's involvement while more comes out about it

Horsie · 03/11/2025 09:35

MaccyDeeeFavs · 03/11/2025 09:20

The royal family cannot be seen to be including E&B in their official family appearances any longer. The whole family needs to vanish from public life. Eugenie and Beatrice should hand in their titles, it would be good for their pr and credibility. About the 18th birthday party, it was probably a condition put on Andrew and Sarah to keep the cash flowing as JE and cohort wanted access to the RF. I must say William and Kate should watch this scandal very carefully and put all the safeguards in to prevent such misuse of royal titles and privileges when they and their dc move up the ranks. I do think however that Catherine seems eternally sensible and the Middleton family very grounded and proper so hopefully their reign will be without any sleaze.

I do wonder of Beatrice and Eugenie will do the right thing and give up on their titles.

Oh, no, that's not fair! I can't agree with that at all. I don't believe in making children pay for the sins of the fathers. E&B seem like incredibly nice, normal women - which is a real testament to them, considering who their parents are. I think they are like their paternal grandparents or their other uncles. Why on earth should they suffer even more because of what their dad did, which isn't their fault and which they had NOTHING to do with? What you suggest would be the very height of unfairness.

Viviennemary · 03/11/2025 09:39

Happyher · 03/11/2025 09:31

I feel the same as you. I can’t believe the US are threatening to subpoena him to tell them what he knows. Why don’t they subpoena Trump and Melania? If I was Andrew I’d tell them to get stuffed and write a tell all book about who was there. That doesn’t mean I condone what he’s alleged to have done

I would. The Americans shielded that woman who ran over and killed the teenage boy. Yet she refused to face the consequences and scarpered. No subpoena for her and she killed somebody.

PenelopeSkye · 03/11/2025 09:41

LlamaNoDrama · 03/11/2025 08:24

VG had a photo. What evidence is anyone else likely to have? Probably none.

This is exactly it.

Without that photo, she would have been a random girl making accusations against someone very powerful, and it would have gone nowhere. The photo made it impossible for people not to take notice. The fact he allowed it to be taken seemed strange to me for a while- but I suppose it speaks to his sheer arrogance of how well protected he was, it wouldn't have occurred to him it could have been used many years later to incriminate him.

BadgernTheGarden · 03/11/2025 09:43

AutumnLover1989 · 03/11/2025 09:21

I still unsure as to whether the queen knew the full extent. Do mothers know when their son is a wrong un normally? No. They don't 😞

And even if they have suspicions mother's always want to believe the best of their children. I'm sure she was aware he was a womaniser (and an idiot). I don't think she would have known how far he had gone in his sexual predilections, hardly over dinner conversations.

Blyhdsh · 03/11/2025 09:46

Richard powerful men (royals, presidents, bunsiness men) raping young teens with their dicks in private parties and islands. And the only one in jail is a WOMAN.

Think about it. This circle, they look after each other. Like teflon. Nothing sticks. But the woman involved can be thrown to the wolves. She has no protection from the group. (Not saying she should, but the rapists walk free)

BadgernTheGarden · 03/11/2025 09:48

PenelopeSkye · 03/11/2025 09:41

This is exactly it.

Without that photo, she would have been a random girl making accusations against someone very powerful, and it would have gone nowhere. The photo made it impossible for people not to take notice. The fact he allowed it to be taken seemed strange to me for a while- but I suppose it speaks to his sheer arrogance of how well protected he was, it wouldn't have occurred to him it could have been used many years later to incriminate him.

The photo was hardly damning, Andrew with his arm round a happy looking, smiling young woman, with an older woman smiling in the background.

LavenderBlue19 · 03/11/2025 09:49

It's fairly obvious there would have been boys as well as girls - why else would Mandleson have been interested? I can't see that makes it any worse, unless of course we're talking much younger.

My suspicion is that this isn't about the sex. I'm not sure the Royal Family would be overly bothered, after all the Queen paid off VG and allowed Andrew to continue as a member of the Royal family. There is absolutely a sense of a birthright to that kind of thing.

I reckon it's more political and money related - something involving state secrets, money for access, dodgy deals etc. It's known that Epstein kept evidence which he used to blackmail people. I imagine that is what's going to come out. Goodness knows what.

BeeWitchy · 03/11/2025 09:58

BadgernTheGarden · 03/11/2025 09:48

The photo was hardly damning, Andrew with his arm round a happy looking, smiling young woman, with an older woman smiling in the background.

The older woman is Ghislaine Maxwell convicted sex trafficker of underage girls currently serving 20 years in a US federal prison. The photographer is Jeffrey Epstein, convicted of procuring an underage girl in 2008, served 24 months prison time. Later arrested yet again, and charged and died in prison before getting to court. And the prince with his arm around the waist of a trafficked underage girl.

2 people in their 40s unrelated to the young girl of 17 have brought her from America to London to meet a prince and buy her clothes. Lots obviously wrong with that photo - very damming imo.

How do you know she was happy? Because she was smiling?

LlamaNoDrama · 03/11/2025 09:59

BadgernTheGarden · 03/11/2025 09:48

The photo was hardly damning, Andrew with his arm round a happy looking, smiling young woman, with an older woman smiling in the background.

It wasn't just a random older woman though was it.

Ahfiddlesticks · 03/11/2025 10:02

Isheagrump · 03/11/2025 07:28

If my father was a rapist, abuser and liar I wouldn’t have any of my children anywhere near him. Nor would I go near him myself.

It's really easy to say that when you haven't experienced it.

Most children of those sorts of people have been emotionally and psychologically abused by the perpetrator and extracting themselves from it is very, very hard. And much much harder when in the public eye.

Dollymylove · 03/11/2025 10:03

DeftWasp · 03/11/2025 09:24

Exactly, interestingly I don't think any staff have come forward remembering it either - during my brief spell in retail I served Mick Fleetwood, literally 30 seconds at the till, remember it clearly - you remember famous faces.

So it seems really odd no one at Pizza Express remembering not only a prince but princesses.

Living in the area, its possible that Andrew and the girls were regular visitors to Pzza express. Maybe the staff couldn't pinpoint a particular day thay they visited

Needspaceforlego · 03/11/2025 10:03

Mymanyellow · 03/11/2025 09:31

I have said this over and over. Surely just a simple matter of someone saying’oh yeah he was at my dc party’

Who can actually remember which exact date their child had a birthday party 20 years ago?
You might remember the party, you might remember who was there, unless you held the party on actual birthday every year you aren't going to remember nor remember the time.

Also these are high society people, they aren't exactly going to go running to the press to have their name in the papers or risk the papers miss quoting, changing context of what they say.

IsItSnowing · 03/11/2025 10:05

He is an odious little man who has used his royal privilege to avoid scrutiny. Personally, I'm glad that is being stripped away and I hope that leads to more of the truth coming out. Now he is no longer royal, his protections in law are no longer there and he is a much easier person to pursue.
I think we've probably only seen the tip of the iceberg on his behaviour. People like this who get away with abusive behaviour tend to think they're untouchable and offend at will.
On the subject of his daughters, I think they need to be allowed to process how they react and feel in private. They are in no way to blame for what their father has done. In fact, they are victims now of the fallout and having to process what a monster their father is with the public eye on them. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
They may well feel denial, I believe that's fairly normal. The man they knew as their father doesn't really exist anymore but it's far easier for us to see and accept that from the outside than for people close to him.

dagoo · 03/11/2025 10:06

Dollymylove · 03/11/2025 10:03

Living in the area, its possible that Andrew and the girls were regular visitors to Pzza express. Maybe the staff couldn't pinpoint a particular day thay they visited

But he explicitly says in the newsnight interview that he rarely/never went there

DeftWasp · 03/11/2025 10:11

Dollymylove · 03/11/2025 10:03

Living in the area, its possible that Andrew and the girls were regular visitors to Pzza express. Maybe the staff couldn't pinpoint a particular day thay they visited

Possibly the girls, but Andrew made a point to Emily Maitliss about remembering the date because going to Pizza Express was a very unusual occurrence in his life.

And, as far as I know, no one has come forward and said something along the lines of, yes he was a regular, so could well have been in that night.

Katiesaidthat · 03/11/2025 10:12

Horsie · 03/11/2025 08:00

Um, hello? For not letting him get away with it? For the purpose of taking him down lower than Virginia managed in her lifetime? For the millions of compensation? LOADS of good reasons! VG blazed a trail and made it possible for many, many victims to come forward, and support each other. As for not ending up like her, before she died, no one would have known that she would end up like that, would she? She accused Andrew, and it was a huge story, and I find it odd that no one else came forward to say that had been trafficked to him when they'd have had the company of VG and all the other Epstein victims that had come forward. Use your head!

Many have moved on and don´t want the unwelcome notoriety, or their circle don´t know their past, or they dont want the shit sued out of them, take your pick. That´s not for everyone and that is to be respected.

Ukisgaslit · 03/11/2025 10:15

@Horsie

You think Philip was ‘decent ‘??

I suppose it depends on your definition of decent but Philip was never loyal to Elizabeth . He had numerous affairs and was linked some believe to the Profumo scandal .
The whole image of the steadfast marriage of Philip and Elizabeth was a lie .

It will all come out now they are dead. That’s the Windsor way . Keep the current beneficiaries at the trough above all.

Some people have mentioned that several of the Windsor men are gay. This seems to be totally unacceptable to the Windsor facade and must be covered up . Lavender marriages and living a lie follow .

MaccyDeeeFavs · 03/11/2025 10:19

Horsie · 03/11/2025 09:35

Oh, no, that's not fair! I can't agree with that at all. I don't believe in making children pay for the sins of the fathers. E&B seem like incredibly nice, normal women - which is a real testament to them, considering who their parents are. I think they are like their paternal grandparents or their other uncles. Why on earth should they suffer even more because of what their dad did, which isn't their fault and which they had NOTHING to do with? What you suggest would be the very height of unfairness.

This isn’t about punishment, it’s about accountability, respect and compassion. The York sisters have benefited financially and socially from their parents’ dealings with Epstein. While they may not have been directly involved, they still reaped the advantages of Epstein’s wealth and social connections. JE and his entourage were guests at Beatrice’s 18th birthday showing he was treated like a family friend and that the boundaries were blurred.

Royal titles aren’t basic human rights, they’re privileges tied to public trust, symbolism and representation. When someone’s status comes directly from a system of inherited honour it means their public image is inevitably linked to their family’s actions. You can’t separate the inherited title from the legacy it carries.

It would be right for B&E to distance themselves from it all now, out of respect for the victims and for the integrity of the royal institution. Giving up their titles would allow the public to see them and their own families as separate from their parents’ scandals.

Katiesaidthat · 03/11/2025 10:20

Horsie · 03/11/2025 09:09

That's true, but she could have ordered Charles and William and the staff to do all the necessities.

I wonder how Prince Philip would have reacted to all this if he'd been alive and it had all happened when he was a younger man. He always struck me as basically decent and upstanding. Like the Queen. God only knows how they managed to have a son like Andrew - none of his siblings are sexual weirdos like him, either!

My great aunt could tell you what went on with Prince Philip and his friends in Petworth House back in the day...the Queen wouldn´t have been seen dead there were her words.

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