Andrew’s Tax-Funded Police Guards ‘Provided Security’ at Epstein Dinner

Taxpayer-funded Met police officers assigned to protect Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor were told to guard the door at a dinner party the former prince attended with Jeffrey Epstein in New York in 2010, newly released emails show.

Epstein’s staff appear to have told two royal protection officers to provide security at their employer’s Manhattan townhouse for the dinner in honour of the then-prince, the Sunday Times reported.

“The suggestion that Met officers in effect acted as bouncers for the convicted paedophile will be acutely embarrassing for Britain’s biggest police force, which has failed for many years to charge anyone in connection with the Epstein scandal,” the report said.

“It is also likely to raise further questions about the leadership of Peter Loughborough, the former head of the Met’s royal protection squad who is now one of the King’s most senior aides.”

The revelation comes amid concerns that the Met police guards may have turned a blind eye to potential wrongdoing by Mountbatten-Windsor.

The former prince was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office last week following allegations that, as UK trade envoy, he provided sensitive government information to Epstein.

He has been separately accused of sexually abusing Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s teenage trafficking victims. He has denied all wrongdoing and also denied ever meeting Giuffre. He has previously said he regrets his friendship with Epstein.

The Met police has said it had not found any wrongdoing by protection officers and offered no comment on the 2010 dinner. Loughborough has previously declined to comment. 

Guests at the dinner included director Woody Allen, the Sunday Times report said. Allen’s adoptive daughter, Dylan Farrow, has accused him of sexually abusing her when she was seven years old, something he has always strongly denied.