Police hunt Andrew officers’ emails after claims he asked them to dig up dirt on Virginia Giuffre: report
Sources within the Met police have shared a significant development in the Andrew scandal.
IN LONDON
Authorities in Britain are hunting for any emails, phone records or notebooks from Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s personal protection officers after the resurfacing of an email written by the former prince amid scrutiny over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
According to The Sun, the Metropolitan police are investigating claims that Andrew requested his police bodyguard “dig up dirt” on sex trafficking victim Virginia Giuffre, purportedly handing over her date of birth and confidential US social security number in a bid to discredit her, in 2011.
In an email leaked last month, it emerged that Andrew reportedly told the late Queen’s then-deputy press secretary, Ed Perkins, what he had done.
“It would also seem she has a criminal record in the [United] States,” Andrew wrote in the note.
“I have given her DoB [date of birth] and social security number for investigation with XXX, the on duty ppo [personal protection officer].”
There has not been any suggestion that Andrew’s request was acted upon. However, if it was, it could potentially be an offence of misconduct in public office, and the former Duke of York could face allegations of assisting in the charge.
The Sun reports that the Met development “could pave the way for a full investigation into historic trafficking for sexual exploitation”.
Authorities have declined to do so for the past 10 years, and Andrew has never been interviewed by police over his relationship with convicted sex offender Epstein.
“As part of the initial examination of the case, officers are currently trying to establish what material is available,” a source told The Sun.
“They are actively seeking to find emails and communications from Andrew’s royalty protection team, as well as their notebooks.”
Andrew breaks cover
The new development comes a week after Andrew broke cover for the first time since being stripped of his titles amid the fallout from the Epstein scandal.
He was pictured horseriding at the top of the Long Walk, in the grounds of Windsor Castle, with a female companion last Monday morning.
It was not far from his soon-to-be-former home, the Royal Lodge, a sprawling mansion owned by the Crown Estate, which he is being evicted from in the near future.
Sources close to him have claimed that he’s spending his final weeks “ranting to himself” and is largely isolated.
It’s understood he’ll be moving to a smaller home owned by the King on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk at some point in early 2026.
In October, the King decided to strip his brother of his titles and honours and formally evict him as public pressure mounted over his connection to convicted sex offender Epstein.
The years-long scandal surrounding Andrew had reignited last month as a result of a leaked email from the former prince to Epstein, weeks after the date he’d declared they’d cut off all contact with each other. The leaked email also coincided with the release Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir, Nobody’s Girl, in which she detailed her alleged sexual encounters with Andrew, one of which she claimed happened when she was just 17 years old.
Andrew has always denied any allegations of wrongdoing.
Bombshell email
Another shocking email recently surfaced between Andrew’s former pal Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted of sex trafficking minors in 2021, to Epstein in which she appears to confirm the royal received a “massage” at her home in London.
“I have to distance myself from you in a statement too,” she wrote in the January 2015 email.
“And they need me to say I was not aware of massage w/andrew in my house.”
Epstein replied: “I am on the phone with another attny (sic) getting you an answer.”
Ms Giuffre had alleged that she had sex with Andrew at Maxwell’s Belgravia home in 2001, which he has always denied.
In an initial statement released via Buckingham Palace, designed to put a stop to the fallout, Andrew offered to give up the “use” of his Duke of York title so as to no longer “distract” from the royal family’s work.
However, the effort fell flat as public outcry grew, prompting the King to go further.
After releasing the statement pledging to officially strip his brother of his HRH style and “prince” title, the King followed through by issuing a letters patent earlier this month.
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