Andrew Warned to Brace for More Trouble as Epstein Files Likely to Be Released Soon
Experts warn the worst chapter may still be ahead for the former Duke, as protests rage on in the US to release Epstein files.
The scandal surrounding Andrew Mountbatten Windsor refuses to settle, no matter how many times the Palace has tried to draw a line on it. The pressure around his ties to Jeffrey Epstein has only intensified, and insiders fear the cycle is far from close to stopping. The latest setback came with the release of new emails in which Jeffrey Epstein acknowledged accuser that the former Duke's infamous photo with Virginia Giuffre is indeed real. Now, with US President Donald Trump signing the bill that paves the way for the Epstein files to be made public, the pressure has reached a new high. This sense of inevitability is what royal commentator Katie Nicholl recently mentioned during The Sun’s Royal Exclusive show.
Nicholl suggested the worst may not yet be behind him. “Well, I think everyone in the royal family is hoping that we’ve heard the last of the Andrew allegations,” she said, before delivering the part no one inside the Palace wants to hear. “Of course, you know, if the Epstein files are made completely public and this sort of drip-feeding ends, then you could be in for a deluge, right?” The bill obliges the US Justice Department to disclose, within 30 days, all records it holds related to investigations into Epstein, as per the BBC. So there is only more trouble to come for the former Prince.
“We don’t really know, and I think what’s been so extraordinary about this story is there’s a bit like it’s had a boomerang effect, right? It keeps coming back, just when you think it’s stopped… it comes back in the most extraordinary, and for Andrew, catastrophic, catastrophic ways. So I think, don’t hold your breath. There could very possibly be more.”
Earlier on Monday, the disgraced Duke was spotted riding on a horse around Windsor with a female companion. Nicholl, talking about the sighting, said, “In terms of being out riding… I guess he is trying to get in as many horse rides as he can before he has to pack up and leave Windsor.” She mentioned that riding had long been one of Mountbatten Windsor’s few remaining sources of joy, something he shared with the late Queen.
The broader issue, however, was explained by royal author Robert Jobson, who had an uncomfortable explanation for why this issue continues to shadow the monarchy. He said, “[Andrew] clearly didn’t tell the full truth to his mother, the late Queen. He didn’t tell the full truth to the King, which is why this was allowed to go on for so long. Perhaps if he had said the truth very early on, a lot of people would have had different judgments, and different things would have happened.”
Jobson thinks this saga has managed to stain the monarchy permanently. “I think also the Palace… since the death of the Queen, we’ve been in a transitional phase,” he explained. “It’s a fragile relationship between the public and the monarchy. Monarchy is an unelected institution after all.” The scandal, he said, has become a 'stain' the institution cannot simply wash away. “They’ve done their best to distance themselves from it, but they can’t distance themselves from the second son of the late Queen.”
