Freshly released documents connected to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein include an email referring to the Royal Family’s summer stay at Balmoral, once again drawing the Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor into renewed scrutiny over his past associations.
Among the latest tranche of papers is an email sent to Epstein’s associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, from an address using the alias “The Invisible Man”. The message, dated 16 August 2001, opens with the line: “I am up here at Balmoral Summer Camp for the Royal Family.”
The email goes on to describe the writer’s activities during the stay and includes a question to Maxwell asking: “Have you found me some new inappropriate friends?” It is signed off: “See ya A xxx.”
In a reply sent later the same day to the same address, Maxwell wrote: “So sorry to disappoint you, however the truth must be told. I have only been able to find appropriate friends.”
A second email address, appears in Epstein’s phone book under a contact labelled “Duke of York”, an image of which was released previously. Emails from both addresses are included in the latest disclosure and are attributed to the same alias, “The Invisible Man”, with several messages signed off with variations of “A”.
The documents form part of a wider release of material connected to Epstein and Maxwell, who is currently serving a prison sentence in the United States for sex trafficking offences. The emails themselves do not allege or demonstrate criminal behaviour, and the BBC, which first reported the material, said they do not indicate wrongdoing.
Nevertheless, the explicit reference to Balmoral – the monarch’s private Aberdeenshire estate – has heightened attention around Andrew’s presence within the Royal Family during that period and the proximity of his private life to Epstein’s circle.
In October, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor lost use of his Duke of York title following sustained scrutiny over his links to Epstein. He stepped back from public duties in 2019 and has lived largely out of the public eye since.
He has repeatedly denied all wrongdoing and has previously said that he did not “see, witness or suspect any behaviour of the sort that subsequently led to [Epstein’s] arrest and conviction”.
Andrew’s representatives have been contacted for comment on the latest documents, including the references to “The Invisible Man” and the Balmoral email.
The renewed disclosures underline a continuing difficulty for the monarchy: that despite the absence of new allegations, archival material connected to Epstein continues to surface, keeping one of the most damaging chapters in recent royal history firmly in the public eye.
