Police are today being urged to launch a sex trafficking probe into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor amid claims a woman was flown in on Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Lolita Express’ and smuggled into Buckingham Palace using the codename ‘Mrs Windsor’.
The paedophile’s Boeing 727–100 private jet, which he used to host orgies and traffic girls, landed around 90 times in the UK – including after his conviction for child sex offences in 2008, the Epstein Files reveal.
Stansted, Britain’s fourth busiest airport, was allegedly used as a hub to transfer victims from one Epstein plane to another.
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called it ‘by far the biggest scandal of all’ and urged Scotland Yard to begin a criminal investigation into the former Duke of York beyond misconduct in public office and breach of the Official Secrets Act.
‘The Stansted revelations alone require them to interview Andrew. I have been told privately that the investigations related to the former Prince Andrew did not properly check vital evidence of flights’, he said.
Today it was claimed that least one Epstein victim was flown into Britain on board and then taken to Andrew at Buckingham Palace.
The disgraced former Duke of York allegedly told aides: ‘Mrs Windsor will arrive shortly, please let her in and show her up’.
Sources have claimed that other women would be whisked in to see him at his late mother and father’s London home using the same coded requests and with no security clearance.
Andrew has been linked to four women in the Epstein Files, along with Virginia Giuffre.
The Mail on Sunday revealed this week how Epstein took a young Romanian model to a private dinner at Buckingham Palace with his friend Andrew. Epstein said the royal thought she was ‘beautiful’, adding: ‘No man looks at your clothes, they see through them.’
Andrew also invited Jeffrey Epstein and an ‘enchanting’ Russian model named Vera to dinner at Buckingham Palace during a trip to London.
Epstein also offered to introduce him to a 26-year-old Russian woman known as ‘Irina’ in August 2010.
Today The Sun reported there may be a fourth woman, brought in using the code Mrs Windsor.
Virginia Giuffre’s allegations that she was forced to have sex with Andrew are also revealed in FBI documents released in the latest tranche of documents, although her name is redacted.
The Epstein Files have laid bare just how many times the paedophile financier’s private jet landed in the UK. Flight logs show it landed at Stansted and Heathrow as well as quieter, lesser known airports across the south of England.
Gordon Brown said women were moved from one Epstein plane to another at the hub in Essex. Flight logs showed unnamed passengers were labelled as ‘female’ and names of male passengers also unknown.
He said: ‘I have asked the Met urgently to re-examine their decision-making. The emails tell us in graphic detail how Epstein was able to use Stansted Airport…to fly in girls from Latvia, Lithuania and Russia’.
Mr Brown wrote in the New Statesman: ‘In short, British authorities had little or no idea who was being trafficked through our country, and for whom other than Epstein.’
He added: ‘I have asked the police to look at this as part of the new inquiry.
‘Separately, a line of emails concerns the logistics of registering trafficked girls for English-as-a-foreign-language courses, as a route to obtaining US visas. We need to know if and to what extent this was also happening in the UK.’
Also in the UK, ex-victims’ commissioner Dame Vera Baird urged police to ‘start properly investigating’ Andrew; while the MP who heads the Commons Women and Equalities Committee said Andrew must answer to the police and Parliament.
Sources have told The Sun that Andrew had a string of women come to see him at Buckingham Palace, where he also had an office.
The insider said: ‘He would phone the duty office and always say the same thing — ‘Mrs Windsor will be arriving shortly – please let her in and show her up’.
‘This was always via one of the out of sight staff entrances.
‘It was so frequent that they used to just roll their eyes and say ‘yes sir’.
‘It went on for years.
‘The royal protection officers hated being assigned Andrew as he was so unpleasant and dismissive.’
Another source said: ‘Buckingham Palace isn’t the fortress you think it is.
‘A lot of them had no security clearance whatsoever.
‘Few details, if any, were taken because of his status within the Royal Household.
‘It was regularly discussed by courtiers but nothing was ever done to challenge it’.
The Epstein Files detail how the Lolita Express landed at Stansted’s private terminal.
Stansted has said that UK Border Force are responsible for processing passengers there.
One email to Epstein said one woman on a flight as ‘just turned 18, 179cm, very cute, speaks English, I saw her in real 3 years ago . . . I will send you the video’.
Another email from 2012, three years after Epstein’s release from prison, says: ‘JE mentioned he may use the Boeing on Dec 7 London to NY.
‘He told me he would fly Paris to London, Stansted UK to meet the Boeing there with (redacted).
‘I did some work since (redacted) has no UK visa, where she can enter UK and make transfer to Boeing’.
Another email said: ‘She’ll be escorted in side to clear, once boeing is ready to depart she is escorted to aircraft and we depart’.
It came as a senior US politician claimed the woman pictured on the floor under Andrew at Epstein’s New York mansion was a sex trafficking victim.
Three images of the former prince crouching over an unidentified woman in the paedophile financier’s home were among the Epstein files released on January 30.
The undated pictures have no captions but were released in a document of 100 pages of photographs, and also appear to show Andrew touching the woman’s abdomen. Another unidentified person’s feet can be seen up on a table in the background.
While the context remains unknown, California congressman Ted Lieu asked for the images to be shown at the House Judiciary Committee in Washington DC yesterday.
He made the claim about the woman being a sex trafficking victim while questioning US Attorney General Pam Bondi over why Andrew has never been prosecuted.
Files released by US authorities also include claims a woman was sent to the UK by Epstein for a sexual encounter with Andrew in 2010.
Separately, the Metropolitan Police has launched an investigation into Peter Mandelson over alleged misconduct in public office.
The inquiry is linked to allegations that Mandelson sent market-sensitive information to the paedophile financier Epstein while he was business secretary during the financial crisis.
On Monday, Buckingham Palace said it would ‘stand ready to support’ the police if approached over the claims. A spokesman added that the King had made clear his ‘profound concern’ at allegations over his brother’s conduct.
The Prince and Princess of Wales publicly addressed the Epstein scandal for the first time on Monday, with Kensington Palace saying they were ‘deeply concerned’ at the ‘continued revelations’ and that their thoughts ‘remain focused on the victims’.
Andrew is effectively no longer a royal, becoming a commoner after he was stripped by the monarch of his right to be a prince and his dukedom late last year over his association with Epstein.
Andrew has never been questioned by police over claims by Virginia Giuffre.
Ms Giuffre, who took her own life last year, alleged that she was forced to have sex three times with Andrew, including when she was 17, and also in London after she was trafficked by Epstein, and at an orgy on Epstein’s private Caribbean island.
The former duke vehemently denied the claims.
The Met previously said it was made aware in 2015 of allegations around non-recent trafficking for sexual exploitation including to central London in 2001.
But it concluded in 2016 that because the investigation would be largely focused on activities and relationships outside the UK, the Met was not the appropriate authority to conduct the inquiries so the matter would not proceed to a full criminal investigation.
The decision was reviewed in August 2019, but in November that year the Met confirmed it would remain unchanged.
In December, the Met decided not to launch a criminal investigation into reports that Andrew asked his taxpayer-funded bodyguard to dig up dirt on Ms Giuffre.
Her family have said they are ‘deeply disappointed’ by the force’s decision to drop the investigation ‘without explanation’.
Meanwhile a poll found earlier this week that support for the monarchy has fallen to 45 per cent amid the ongoing Epstein scandal.
The survey, commissioned by the anti-monarchy campaign group Republic, found that the proportion of the British public in favour of the monarchy had dropped three percentage points, down from 48 per cent, over the last four months.
