{"id":946437,"date":"2026-10-30T14:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/946437\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T14:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T14:00:15","slug":"scottish-police-probe-former-prince-andrews-balmoral-visit-with-epstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/946437\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish police probe former prince Andrew&#8217;s Balmoral visit with Epstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Scottish police are conducting inquiries into the time then-prince Andrew spent at the king&#8217;s Balmoral estate with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police Scotland said the investigation was at a &#8220;very early stage&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;All inquiries are evidence-led, with the needs of victim survivors at the heart of those inquiries,&#8221; police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would never confirm details of ongoing inquiries and it would be inappropriate to comment further.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-02-20\/andrew-mountbatten-windsor-arrest-timeline-explained\/106366940\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The key moments that led to former prince Andrew&#8217;s arrest <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has for years faced allegations over his contact with Jeffrey Epstein. These moments led to his arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Images released by the US Department of Justice this year appear to show the former prince, now known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, on a shooting trip at the estate with Epstein.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">In February Mr Mountbatten Windsor was arrested and held for hours by British police on suspicion of misconduct in public office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">It was the first time in nearly four centuries that a senior British royal had been arrested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scottish police are conducting inquiries into the time then-prince Andrew spent at the king&#8217;s Balmoral estate with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,114230,80925,134,143651,182275,95505,5634,2546,5994,288436],"class_list":["post-946437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-balmoral-castle","tag-british-royal-family","tag-entertainment","tag-epstein-files","tag-former-prince-andrew","tag-ghislaine-maxwell","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-king-charles","tag-scotland","tag-us-department-of-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946437","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=946437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}