Ex-Prince Andrew’s Reputation Takes Another Hit Following New Release of Incriminating Emails

The 2001 email was signed “A xxx” and purportedly came from someone at Scotland’s Balmoral Castle, the summer residence of the British royal family, according to The New York Times. The message, to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, asked her whether she’d found the writer “some new inappropriate friends.”

In a follow-up, A laments that his valet has died and that, after leaving the “RN” (presumably the Royal Navy), his life is in “turmoil,” as, he writes, “I have no one to look after me.”

The emails are part of a tranche released by the U.S. Justice Department related to the investigations of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. And while he has not been conclusively identified, A bears a remarkable resemblance to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, a known friend of Maxwell and Epstein — he hosted them at Balmoral — who left the Royal Navy in 2001.

Further supporting that theory, in March 2002, Maxwell referred to “Andrew” in a communication in which she asked a friend to round up “pretty” friends “that you can trust and rely on to be friendly and discreet and fun.”

The messages are damning for the royal once known as “Randy Andy,” as the Justice Department has officially requested that Andrew be “compelled” to answer questions about his relationship with Epstein. In the U.K., he previously settled a sexual abuse lawsuit with the late Virginia Giuffre, who accused him of having sex with her when she was a teen, for a reported $16 million. The 65-year-old has denied all allegations.