British Royals

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s insistence that he travelled to New York in December 2010 to draw a line under his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein is under renewed scrutiny after newly released emails suggested the trip was marked not by a sombre farewell but by socialising with celebrities – and warm contact in the weeks that followed. The then Duke of York told BBC Newsnight in…

British police are reviewing new allegations that Jeffrey Epstein arranged for a woman to have a sexual encounter with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor at Royal Lodge in Windsor in 2010, amid renewed scrutiny of the former duke’s long-disputed association with the disgraced financier. Thames Valley Police confirmed that it is assessing information relating to claims that a woman in her twenties…

King Charles III has been granted permission to construct a manure lagoon on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, just a few hundred yards from Prince William’s residence at Anmer Hall. The reservoir, roughly the size of four Olympic swimming pools, will store nearly 10,000 cubic metres of farm digestate – a mixture of animal and crop waste – for use as organic fertiliser across the…

King Charles is facing renewed pressure to issue a formal apology for the monarchy’s historic involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, after new research detailed the extent to which the British crown and Royal Navy profited from and protected the trade for centuries. According to the Guardian, MPs, historians and human rights campaigners say expressions of “personal sorrow” &#8211…