LONDON (AP) \u2014 A man pleaded not guilty Friday to using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behavior toward the former Prince Andrew near his home on King Charles III\u2019s Sandringham Estate. <\/p>\n
Alex Jenkinson, 39, appeared at Westminster Magistrates\u2019 Court following accusations of threatening behavior toward Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor<\/a> near the former royal\u2019s home earlier this week. <\/p>\n The denial came after reports that Mountbatten-Windsor was threatened by a masked man while walking dogs near his home.<\/p>\n The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported that a man wearing a ski mask ran toward the former royal while shouting abuse on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Mountbatten-Windsor, 66 moved to the king\u2019s private Sandringham Estate<\/a>, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) north of London, after he was evicted<\/a> from his longtime home near Windsor Castle<\/a> following revelations about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n He was stripped of all his honors and titles and banished from public view by the royal family after years of scandal over his money woes and links to questionable characters, including Epstein.<\/p>\n One of Epstein\u2019s accusers, Virginia Giuffre, alleged that she was forced to have sex with the then-prince three times, starting when she was 17. He denied it, but eventually settled the case for an undisclosed sum<\/a> and acknowledged Giuffre\u2019s suffering as a victim of sex trafficking. Giuffre died by suicide<\/a> in April 2025, aged 41.<\/p>\n In February, he became the first senior British royal in almost 400 years to be arrested when he was held for hours by British police on suspicion of misconduct in public office in a case related to his links to Epstein<\/a>.<\/p>\n Police had previously said they were \u201cassessing\u201d reports that Mountbatten-Windsor sent trade information to Epstein, a wealthy investor and convicted sex offender, in 2010, when the former prince was the U.K. special envoy for international trade.<\/p>\n