British police are to review fresh allegations that Jeffrey Epstein provided Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor with a woman to have sex with at the Royal Lodge in 2010.
The woman has claimed she spent the night at the then prince’s residence in Windsor, her US lawyer, Brad Edwards, said after the allegations surfaced over the weekend. The woman, who is not British, was in her 20s at the time, and was later given a tour of Buckingham Palace, it is further alleged.
A Thames Valley police spokesperson said: “We are aware of reports about a woman said to have been taken to an address in Windsor in 2010 for sexual purposes. We are assessing the information in line with our established procedures.
“We take any reports of sexual crimes extremely seriously and encourage anyone with information to come forward. At this time, these allegations have not been reported to Thames Valley police by either the lawyer [of the woman] or their client.”
Thames Valley is looking at the case as the Royal Lodge is in the area covered by the force. The review does not necessarily mean a criminal investigation will take place.
Mountbatten-Windsor has always denied wrongdoing.
His involvement with Epstein has resulted in King Charles stripping him of his titles last year after the posthumous publication of a book by Virginia Giuffre.
The latest revelations became public after the US Department of Justice released more documents relating to Epstein and his links to the rich and powerful on Friday.
On Tuesday, Andrew’s brother Prince Edward said it was important to “remember the victims”.
They were the first public comments by a senior royal since the latest documents were released, which included several new claims about the former Duke of York.
Speaking in Dubai, Edward said: “I think it’s all really important, always, to remember the victims and who are the victims in all this.”
Edwards, from the Florida-based law firm Edwards Henderson, told the BBC that after spending the night with Mountbatten-Windsor, the woman claims she was given a tour of Buckingham Palace and tea.
“We’re talking about at least one woman who was sent by Jeffrey Epstein over to Prince Andrew. And she even had, after a night with Prince Andrew, a tour of Buckingham Palace,” Edwards told the broadcaster.
The lawyer told the BBC he was considering filing a civil lawsuit on the woman’s behalf against the former prince.
Brittany Henderson, of the same law firm, told PA Media: “Andrew’s power only existed because of his royal family. Andrew’s complicity and involvement with Epstein and Maxwell has been well known to us, to Andrew, and to the palace for many years.
“Whether he comes to the United States to testify is irrelevant; we hardly need more people over here spinning grand stories.
“For the royal family to maintain any level of credibility in the eyes of the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein, the legal team for the king should contact me immediately in a good faith effort to learn what Andrew has done, meet whomever he has done it to, issue a sincere and real apology, and ensure that any victims of Andrew are fairly compensated for this wrongdoing.”
The allegation came as UK government pressure on the former prince to testify before the US Congress mounted at the weekend, with prime minister, Keir Starmer, saying Mountbatten-Windsor “should be prepared” to give evidence about his links with Epstein. “I’ve always said anybody who’s got information should be prepared to share that information in whatever form they’re asked to do that, because you can’t be victim-centred if you’re not prepared to do that,” Starmer said.
More than 3m Epstein documents were released by the US Department of Justice last week, including emails from accounts labelled The Duke and The Invisible Man as well as from Sarah, and making references to Fergie, suggesting they are from Mountbatten-Windsor and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson.
They appear to reveal the pair were in contact with Epstein immediately after the end of his house arrest in August 2010, and Mountbatten-Windsor’s visit to the US that December.
Epstein had pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting a minor for prostitution, for which he served 13 months in a jail work-release programme. He was later released under house arrest for a year.
The files include photographs of a barefoot, smiling Mountbatten-Windsor kneeling on all fours over an unidentified woman lying flat on the floor.
He is seen looking at the camera as the woman, whose face is redacted, lies on her back between his arms.
In one of the three photographs, the former royal appears to have his hand placed on her abdomen. The images are undated, have no captions or reference to indicate where they were taken, and do not indicate wrongdoing.
The anti-monarchy campaign group Republic had said British police should investigate the claims that Epstein trafficked the woman to the UK to have sex with Andrew in 2010.
In December, the Met decided after a review not to launch a full criminal investigation into two other matters. They were that Mountbatten-Windsor had sex in London in 2001 with Giuffre, who was then a teenager and was trafficked by Epstein, and that Andrew put pressure on his police protection officer to dig up dirt on her.
Andrew paid millions to Giuffre, a woman he has claimed never to have met, to settle a civil sexual assault claim on no admission of liability in 2022.
The headline of this article was amended on 3 February 2026. An earlier version said incorrectly that it was a Met police investigation.