Disaster' for royal family as Andrew faces police review, calls to testify in U.S.

"Vice president J.D. Vance this week joined the call from British Prime Minister Keir Starmer for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to testify before the U.S. Congress about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. Meanwhile, the U.K.'s leading opposition politician has said that an announced police review of the disgraced former prince, and the ongoing controversy surrounding him, is turning into a disaster for the British royal family, led by King Charles III."

"I think, for the royal family, what started off as an embarrassment is rapidly turning into a disaster, said Nigel Farage, the right-wing politician and leader of the Reform UK party who is known as a supporter of the monarchy. Farage's comments to The Telegraph came in response to news from The Guardian Monday that U.K. police were reviewing fresh allegations that Epstein sent a young Russian woman to the U.K. in 2010 to have sex with Andrew at his longtime home, the Royal Lodge mansion, near Windsor Castle."

"LONDON, ENGLAND FEBRUARY 01: In this photo illustration, the front page of The Sunday Telegraph newspaper with an image of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is seen on February 01, 2026 in London, England. Three million new documents were released by the United States Department of Justice under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images) Farage said the U.S. Justice Department's latest release of information about Andrew's association with the late alleged sex trafficker, via the so-called Epstein files, is becoming the biggest scandal to engulf the royals since 1936."

Vice president J.D. Vance joined British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in calling for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to testify before the U.S. Congress about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. U.K. police are reviewing fresh allegations that Epstein sent a young Russian woman to the U.K. in 2010 to have sex with Andrew at the Royal Lodge near Windsor Castle. Nigel Farage warned that the matter is rapidly turning from embarrassment into a disaster for the royal family. King Charles III ordered Andrew to leave Royal Lodge weeks or months ahead of schedule amid fallout from the U.S. Justice Department's Epstein files release.

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