King Charles was heckled during a cathedral visit today by a protester who asked him about Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein‘s relationship.
The person shouted questions about the Prince and convicted sex trafficker Epstein as the King visited Staffordshire.
He yelled: ‘How long have you known about Andrew and Epstein? Have you asked the police to cover up for Andrew? Should MPs be allowed to debate the royals in the House of Commons?’
In line with the Royal family’s usual response to unwanted questions or criticism – never complain, never explain – the King chose to ignore the heckler, showing no reaction.
Footage of the encounter was shared by the anti-monarchy campaign group Republic.
Other people outside Lichfield Cathedral told the heckler to ‘shut up’ as the King made his way through the crowd, greeting fans and tuning out the chaos.
The man shouted questions about the Prince and convicted sex trafficker Epstein as the King visited Staffordshire
King Charles was heckled by a protester who asked ‘How long did you know about Andrew and Epstein?’ during a cathedral visit today
It comes as the King faces mounting pressure to kick his brother out of his Royal Lodge home where he has lived rent-free for over 20 years.
Andrew has only paid ‘peppercorn’ rent for the last 20 years, and while he initially tried to dig his heels in by citing the terms of his ‘cast iron’ lease with the Crown Estate, it is understood he will finally move out.
The prince still has 50 years left on his pre-paid lease and it not known exactly how much money he could receive in compensation for the £7.5million he has spent on Royal Lodge renovations.
Last night, it was claimed Andrew and Fergie have finally agreed to leave their sprawling mansion – but have brazenly demanded two homes in return.
The 65-year-old is said to have requested Harry and Meghan’s former home, Frogmore Cottage, while Fergie is eyeing up nearby Adelaide Cottage ahead of William and Kate’s departure next month.
The Prince’s links to Epstein have dominated headlines recently with fresh focus on his sex accuser Virginia Giuffre’s claims after her posthumous book was published.
Last week, The Mail on Sunday revealed that Andrew tried to involve the Metropolitan Police and one of Queen Elizabeth’s most senior aides in a campaign to smear Virginia Giuffre, who had accused him of assaulting her as a teenager.
A bombshell email obtained exposed how Andrew asked his taxpayer-funded police bodyguard to investigate the ‘lying’ young woman.
Shockingly, the prince passed on details of her date of birth and social security number, presumably given to him by Epstein.
Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson (pictured in 2019) are facing increased scrutiny over their friendship with Jeffrey Epstein
It comes as the King faces mounting pressure to kick his brother out of his Royal Lodge home (pictured) where he has lived rent-free for over 20 years
Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein pictured together in Central Park in 2011
He also claimed Virginia, who took her own life earlier this year, had criminal convictions, a claim which has not been backed up by any evidence or confirmed by police and has been strongly denied by her family.
An earlier email exposé proved that Andrew lied to Buckingham Palace and the British public when he claimed he had cut off all contact with his close friend in December 2010, following Epstein’s release from prison on child-sex charges.
Twelve weeks later, he emailed the paedophile financier to say they were ‘in this together’ and sickeningly expressed his wish to ‘play some more soon’.
His ex wife Sarah Ferguson, who has also been living in Royal Lodge, came under fire in recent weeks as astonishing new emails claimed Epstein had secretly bankrolled her for 15 years.
The convicted paedophile complained to friends about the disgraced duchess’s scrounging ways in messages that suggest his financial support went far beyond the £15,000 she admitted taking from him.
In the previously unseen emails, Epstein reveals Fergie was so desperate to cosy up to him that ‘she was the first to celebrate’ his release from jail ‘with her two daughters in tow’. Princess Beatrice would have been 20 at the time and Eugenie 19, the same age as many of his victims.
The shocking claims are contained in a huge tranche of documents under review by the US Congress. They are set to be released once they have been redacted to protect the identity of hundreds of young girls Epstein raped and sexually abused.
Last month, the MoS revealed how Fergie wrote to Epstein calling him a ‘supreme friend’, just weeks after giving an interview claiming she would ‘never have anything to do with’ the sex offender ever again – reviving the scandal that saw her and Andrew relinquish their titles on Friday.
In the London Evening Standard interview of March 7, 2011 Fergie issued a ‘heartfelt apology’ for accepting £15,000 from Epstein and called it ‘a giant error of judgment’.
The comment angered the financier, who sent an email to his friend, French modelling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, that day, complaining: ‘The duchess that I have financially helped for 15 years said that she wants nothing to do with a paedophile and child sex abuser. It has caused quite a stir.’
Brunel was later arrested on rape charges and killed himself in jail in 2022, three years after Epstein’s own jail suicide.
Epstein demanded Fergie write him a public letter of apology over the interview and threatened to sue her if she did not.
The release of Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir in which she shared disturbing new claims about her alleged encounters with Andrew was released has also increased public pressure on the Royal family to hold him to account.
Ms Giuffre claimed Prince Andrew remarked that Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie were ‘just a little younger than you’ on the first night they allegedly had sex.
Virginia Giuffre photographed with Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell in London in 2001
Fergie pictured with Princess Eugenie (L) and Princess Beatrice (R), at a film premiere in 2009
On the day Ms Giuffre says she met the prince in March 2001, Maxwell woke her up at her London townhouse and told her she was going to have a ‘special day’ and ‘just like Cinderella’ she would meet a ‘handsome prince’.
When Andrew arrived, Maxwell told him to guess her age. The prince, then 41, ‘guessed correctly’ that she was 17, she recalled, and he added: ‘My daughters are just a little younger than you.’
Ms Giuffre said she remembered running for her disposable camera to snap the now infamous picture of her with Andrew – saying that ‘my mom would never forgive me if I met someone as famous as Prince Andrew and didn’t pose for a picture’. The prince has repeatedly denied her claims.
Later that night, Ms Giuffre claimed she went to Tramp nightclub with Andrew, Epstein and Maxwell, where the prince ‘sweated profusely’ – despite him later insisting a medical condition made this impossible. Maxwell instructed her: ‘When we get home, you are to do for him what you do for Jeffrey.’
Ms Giuffre doubled down on her claim she and Andrew had a bath together.
She wrote: ‘We didn’t stay there long because the prince was eager to get to the bed. Afterward, he said thank you in his clipped British accent. In my memory, the whole thing lasted less than half an hour.’
She added: ‘He was friendly enough, but still entitled – as if he believed having sex with me was his birthright.’
Epstein later gave her $15,000 ‘for servicing the man the tabloids called “Randy Andy”,’ she said.
Ms Giuffre repeated her fiercely denied claim that Andrew took part in an orgy with her and ‘approximately eight other young girls’ on Epstein’s Caribbean island of Little St James, known as ‘Paedo Island’, in 2001.
She wrote: ‘It was not just the two of us this time; it was an orgy. The other girls all seemed and appeared to be under the age of 18, and didn’t really speak English. Epstein laughed about how they couldn’t really communicate, saying they are the easiest girls to get along with.’
Andrew has always strenuously denied her claims.
Prince Andrew insisted Ms Giuffre sign a gagging order – so he did not embarrass the late Queen during her Platinum Jubilee celebrations in 2022, the book claims.
After Ms Giuffre launched a court action against the prince for alleged rape and emotional distress, she was paid a reported £10million in a settlement in which the prince did not admit any wrongdoing. He has consistently and vehemently denied all her claims.
Ms Giuffre said she agreed to stay silent for at least one year, as part of the settlement, saying it ‘seemed important to the prince because it ensured that his mother’s Platinum Jubilee would not be tarnished’.
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