{"id":818713,"date":"2026-10-30T13:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T13:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/818713\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T13:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T13:58:11","slug":"police-scotland-carrying-out-active-inquiries-into-andrew-mountbatten-windsor-jeffrey-epstein-and-ghislane-maxwell-balmoral-visits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/818713\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Scotland carrying out &#8216;active inquiries&#8217; into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell Balmoral visits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Flight logs show Mountbatten-Windsor and Maxwell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cy4709kylkxo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">flew from Luton to Edinburgh on Epstein&#8217;s private jet<\/a> with two other passengers on 1 September 2006.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An image believed to show disgraced financier Epstein and former socialite Maxwell at Balmoral was also released by US prosecutors during her sex trafficking trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is thought to have been taken in 1999, when Mountbatten-Windsor reportedly invited the couple to stay at the castle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Epstein and Maxwell were reportedly regular guests at royal residences in the late 1990s and early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last year, the so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cqxynz2l0g2o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Epstein Files<\/a> were released by the US Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Among them was an email from someone named &#8216;A&#8217; to Maxwell which said they were at Balmoral and asked for &#8220;new inappropriate friends&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The message, sent to Maxwell on 16 August 2001, begins: &#8220;I am up here at Balmoral Summer Camp for the Royal Family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Later in the email, the sender asks: &#8220;How&#8217;s LA? Have you found me some new inappropriate friends?&#8221; before signing off &#8220;see ya A xxx&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flight logs show Mountbatten-Windsor and Maxwell flew from Luton to Edinburgh on Epstein&#8217;s private jet with two other&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-818713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}