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Andrew’s Met protection officers ‘told to guard party hosted by Epstein’

Emails reveal Met Police officers assigned to Prince Andrew provided security at Epstein's 2010 New York dinner party with two bodyguards accommodated, police now contacting former officers.

  • In December 2010, Metropolitan Police officers were told to guard a lavish party at Jeffrey Epstein's 71st Street home, with emails referencing 'The Duke's 2 protection officers' assigned to the event.
  • Epstein's emails show he offered to house Andrew's protection team, with 'Rich' — believed to be Richard Barnett — giving access instructions, according to Epstein's staff records.
  • Two of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's protection officers appeared to be assigned to the dinner, with some bodyguards staying at Epstein's 71st Street mansion for over a week, the Times reported.
  • This week the Met has contacted former protection officers to seek witness accounts while detectives from Thames Valley Police searched Royal Lodge, Windsor, Berkshire.
  • Critics say allegations that Metropolitan Police officers guarded Epstein's party will heap pressure on the force, as the monarchy faces its biggest crisis amid the Thames Valley Police-led Royal Lodge search.
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E-mails published by the Department of North-American Justice show that two ex-principe security will have been instructed to keep the door during a dinner at Epstein's house in New York.

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Jeffrey Epstein's staff came to instruct two agents of the protection of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, brother of King Charles III, to protect a dinner...

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The Telegraph broke the news in London, United Kingdom on Sunday, February 22, 2026.
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