Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor seen driving ‘free’ £75,000 Land Rover,
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been pictured driving a brand new £75,000 Land Rover Defender, likely given to him for free as a royal perk.
The former Duke of York, 65, took delivery of the new luxury 4×4 just before his last Christmas at Royal Lodge in Windsor.
Andrew looked furtive behind the wheel of the top-of-the-range Defender as he swept through the gates of his 30-room mansion over the weekend.
He was also photographed driving it on Boxing Day, followed by what appeared to be royal security in a brand new Land Rover Discovery.
Andrew’s car is so new it was only registered with the DVLA earlier this month.
Jaguar Land Rover has just been handed a fresh Royal Warrant by Queen Camilla, which dates back to 1951 when it was first given the honour by King George VI.
As part of that 74-year-old deal with the Tata-owned car business, the royals are loaned a fleet of Land Rovers. Sometimes they are allowed to test new 4x4s before they reach the market.
Andrew has long benefitted from the deal but his new luxury car will, no doubt, spark further anger about his perks given he has been stripped of all his titles by the King.
The Queen and Prince Philip loved Land Rovers. Her Majesty herself is believed to have owned around 30 of them.
Her husband’s coffin was carried on its final journey to his funeral in Windsor in a custom Land Rover Defender.
Prince George was photographed by his mother the Princess of Wales sitting on the bonnet of a Land Rover Defender to mark his eighth birthday.
Jaguar Land Rover, a subsidiary of India’s Tata Motors since 2008, said: ‘We do not comment on any commercial client relationships’.
The former Duke of York, 65, spent Christmas away from his family as he is shunned due to his close friendship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Sources have claimed that he spends his time holed up inside Royal Lodge, Windsor, watching TV. He only really leaves the house to ride a horse from the nearby royal stables.
But 2025 will be his last Christmas there as he prepares to move out, with Marsh Farm on his brother’s Norfolk estate the likely destination.
Meanwhile Andrew’s daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, were invited to Sandringham by King Charles and Queen Camilla.
Their appearance at church with the royals on Christmas Day came as a tranche of new court documents related to the disgraced financier were published last week and included allegations of so-called ‘paedophile ring parties’ said to have involved high-profile figures in the UK.
The unverified claims were made by a US individual whose account appears in files released by the US Department of Justice.
The alleged victim, now aged 35, claims they were drugged and taken to the parties by their own father.
In further unverified claims they say they were allegedly once taken to Frogmore Cottage, where they were restrained and tortured with electric shocks by Ghislaine Maxwell.
They claim that Andrew and other men watched on as the torture took place.
The individual is said to have spoken to the FBI in anticipation of Maxwell’s bail hearing ahead of her trial in the United States. Maxwell was convicted of numerous offences including sex trafficking in 2021 and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
The files also include allegations about a second unverified incident in which the alleged victim reported being hit by a car being driven by Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
They told the FBI that after one party in Surrey, a dark blue vehicle with a personalised number plate with the then-prince behind the wheel collided with them.
Reacting to the new claims, Surrey Police told the Daily Mail: ‘Following a review of our systems using the limited information available to us, we can find no evidence of these allegations being reported to Surrey police.
‘We are therefore engaging with relevant agencies to obtain access to the redacted information.
‘We take all reports of child abuse seriously and encourage anyone with information in relation to these allegations to report this to us online, or via 101.’
The individual also claimed that they were subject to sexual abuse outside of the UK, including by Epstein himself.
Documents state the victim’s claim they were taken by their father to Epstein’s house in Florida, which was located near to a property owned by their grandparents where the family would frequent on holiday.
They said: ‘I remember on one occasion being driven by my father over an hour away to a mansion with a gated driveway and a large rectangular swimming pool.
‘I was molested by a man that I later recognised as Epstein when he was in the news.’
They added: ‘He took pornographic photographs of me in a skirt.’
According to the FBI statement from December 2020, the victim said they had reported their father to the police, but the man was not spoken to or arrested by American authorities.
More than 11,000 new documents in the Epstein case were published last Monday night, although it is thought there are hundreds of thousands still to come.
The Department of Justice said that it had ‘discovered’ another million documents which could relate to the case.
The latest claims against Andrew come after the emergence of correspondence between Maxwell and an individual calling themselves ‘the invisible man’, with emails signed off ‘A’.
One of the emails showed the mystery ‘A’ asking Maxwell: ‘Have you found me some new inappropriate friends?’
Speculation has been mounting this week that the unidentified person exchanging emails with Epstein’s ex-girlfriend and sex trafficker Maxwell could be Andrew. The former prince has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.
In August 2001, ‘A’ messages Maxwell: ‘How’s LA? Have you found me some new inappropriate friends?’
He adds: ‘Let me know when you are coming over as I am free from 25th August until 2nd Sept and want to go somewhere hot and sunny with some fun people before having to put my nose firmly to the grindstone for the Fall.’
Maxwell also discusses ‘two-legged sight seeing’ and a range of other plans with the mystery person.
Elsewhere in the files, Andrew is photographed at Sandringham with Maxwell while he lays across several women’s laps.
Others show him with Epstein and Maxwell at Ascot racecourse.
