{"id":492838,"date":"2026-02-20T17:13:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/492838\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T17:13:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:13:17","slug":"i-strongly-believe-king-wants-andrew-to-testify-on-epstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/492838\/","title":{"rendered":"I &#8216;strongly believe&#8217; King wants Andrew to testify on Epstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">King Charles&#8217;s biographer and friend Jonathan Dimbleby has told BBC Newsnight that he &#8220;would strongly believe&#8221; that the monarch &#8220;would very much like&#8221; his brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to testify in the US in relation to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">When asked whether the King would be feeling &#8220;pressure&#8221; over the allegations, Dimbleby said: &#8220;I think that he will be feeling the pain of this&#8221; and be &#8220;appalled by the allegations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Dimbleby added that Charles would be &#8220;sensing the need to give duty of care&#8221; to Mountbatten-Windsor, describing Andrew as &#8220;a broken, finished man at best&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Earlier this week, Buckingham Palace said it was ready to support the police as they consider allegations against Mountbatten-Windsor. He has consistently and strenuously denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"King Charles&#8217;s biographer and friend Jonathan Dimbleby has told BBC Newsnight that he &#8220;would strongly believe&#8221; that the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":["post-492838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}