A 39-year-old man has been charged with harassing Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former Prince Andrew, following an incident near his home on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, England. Alex Jenkinson is due to appear at Norwich Magistrates Court on Friday to face two counts of using threatening, abusive, or insulting words or behavior intended to harass or cause alarm or distress, Norfolk Constabulary announced on Thursday night.
Incident Details
Police stated that Jenkinson was arrested on Wednesday evening after reports of a man “behaving in an intimidating manner” near Mountbatten-Windsor’s residence. The Daily Telegraph reported that a man wearing a ski mask ran toward the former royal while shouting abuse. Mountbatten-Windsor, 66, the younger brother of King Charles III, was walking his dogs at the time of the alleged incident.
Background of Mountbatten-Windsor
Mountbatten-Windsor moved to the king’s private Sandringham Estate, approximately 100 miles (160 kilometers) north of London, after being evicted from his longtime home near Windsor Castle. This relocation followed revelations about his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. He was stripped of all his honors and titles and banished from public view by the royal family amid years of scandal over his financial troubles and associations with questionable individuals, including Epstein.
One of Epstein’s accusers, Virginia Giuffre, alleged that she was forced to have sex with the then-prince three times starting when she was 17. Mountbatten-Windsor denied the allegations but eventually settled a civil case for an undisclosed sum, acknowledging Giuffre’s suffering as a victim of sex trafficking. Giuffre died by suicide in April 2025 at the age of 41.
Legal Troubles
In February 2026, Mountbatten-Windsor became the first senior British royal in nearly 400 years to be arrested. He was held for hours by British police on suspicion of misconduct in public office, a case related to his links to Epstein. Police had previously stated they were “assessing” reports that Mountbatten-Windsor sent trade information to Epstein in 2010, when the former prince served as the U.K. special envoy for international trade. Correspondence between the two men was released by the U.S. Justice Department as part of millions of pages of documents from the American investigation into Epstein.
The charges against Jenkinson come amid ongoing scrutiny of Mountbatten-Windsor’s past associations and legal entanglements.
