It can be revealed the 65-year-old still appears to be getting the royal treatment despite being stripped of his title, as the removals firm that carted his stuff off to storage has a royal warrant
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor looked as though he didn’t have a care in the world today as he was spotted out and about in Windsor.
Despite his house move having started, the disgraced former prince seemed remarkably worry-free laughing as he drove his Range Rover down the Long Walk. He was also seen taking a relaxed horse ride and stopping to talk to a dog walker.
He was pictured a day after some of his most-prized possessions were removed from his 31-room Royal Lodge mansion ahead of his impending move to Marsh Farm on King Charles’ Sandringham estate in Norfolk. The Mirror can reveal the 65-year-old still appears to be getting the royal treatment despite being stripped of his title, as the removals firm that carted his stuff off to storage has a royal warrant.
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A source said: “He may not be a royal in any official sense any more, but he can’t seem to leave that world behind. Even moving his belongings comes with a royal crest attached.”
It is understood Andrew’s things, including precious art, are now being kept in a South London warehouse protected by 24-hour guards. It comes as millions more files linked to Andrew’s late pal, the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, are being reviewed in the US by the Justice Department prior to release. Andrew has consistenyly and vehemently denied allegations made against him.
The US Department of Justice has tasked over 500 people to pour over millions of files linked to Epstein. Federal officials have said hundreds of prosecutors and staff from the Southern District of New York and the Justice Department’s Criminal Division are reviewing and redacting “millions of pages of materials” linked to the disgraced sex offender.
A file dump of more than 12,000 files last month revealed never-before-seen photos of Epstein with numerous high-profile figures, including Andrew, Bill Clinton, Mick Jagger and Michael Jackson. Some two million files are still being reviewed, the DOJ announced last week.
Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, and US Attorney in the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton said in a letter that the department “remains focused on releasing materials under the Act promptly while protecting victim privacy.” The department said that in its ongoing review of documents, “due to the scope of this effort, platform operations require around-the-clock attention and technical assistance to resolve inevitable glitches due to the sheer volume of materials.”
They added: “Compliance with the act is a substantial undertaking, principally because, for a substantial number of documents, careful, manual review is necessary to ensure that victim-identifying information is redacted before materials are released.”
Justice Department officials called the effort “resource-intensive” and said they evaluate, supplement and modify the review process as needed to ensure the “appropriate rigor, care and integrity” are done. They have offered no indication of when the full long-awaited trove of documents will be released.
