Thames Valley Police confirmed on Friday in the UK that detectives are still investigating Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the ex-Prince Andrew, over potential misconduct in public office and assessing possible sexual offences, while the US government refuses to release unredacted Epstein files that could inform the probe. Senior officers say the work, which follows Andrew's arrest on his 66th birthday in February, may continue for months and have urged potential witnesses and victims to come forward.
The investigation into the former senior royal centres on his decade as the UK's special trade envoy between 2001 and 2011 and his association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The original misconduct allegation is that Andrew provided commercially valuable information to Epstein while acting in that quasi-diplomatic role, a period now being reassessed in light of newly public 'Epstein files' released by US authorities in heavily redacted form.
