King Charles heckled about police investigation into Andrew during Essex walkabout
A man shouted out at King Charles asking if e would put pressure on police to investigate his disgraced brother, Andrew Windsor.
The heckler made the outburst about the Jeffrey Epstein affair at the King and Queen during their high street walkabout in the Essex village of Dedham.
The area had images from the Epstein files thrown around the quiet village before the Royal visit.
As King Charles shook hands, one man in the crowd, shouted out within earshot: ‘Charles, Charles, have you pressurised the police to start investigating Andrew?’
Police officers approached the man afterwards and walked with him away from the barriers, with Essex Police later confirming that no arrests had been made.
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Shortly afterwards a news reporter in the crowd – who was beside a cameraman – apparently tried to ask Charles a question about his brother.
The King was then led to the far side of the road, away from the crowds, to continue the walkabout.
(Picture: Arthur Edwards/The Sun/PA Wire)
Adrian Sharpe, of Dedham, was among the crowds who turned out to see the King and Queen.
The 62-year-old handyman said it was ‘nice and casual really for a village event – obviously high security’.
Asked about the heckler, he said: ‘I think it’s pointless really as what Andrew’s done is what Andrew’s done, it’s not what King Charles has done is it?
‘He’s his own person.’
He said that ‘they’ve taken the HRH off of Andrew’, adding: ‘What else can they do?
‘Surely it’s a police matter now.’
Charles and Camilla had earlier met local groups inside the Sun Inn pub and went into the kitchen where Camilla tried her hand at cutting ravioli pasta.
Towards the end of their walkabout they listened to a choir of schoolchildren in the street, before briefly going into the Essex Rose Teahouse where Charles unveiled a plaque and cut a cake.
After going back outside they spoke to more members of the public before leaving in a Bentley.
Retired health and safety consultant Russell Townsend, of Stratford St Mary, was also in the crowd.
‘We shook the Queen’s hand but the King went across the road so we only saw the back of him really,’ he said.
Asked about the situation with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the 67-year-old said: I must admit today I didn’t think of it really.
‘I kind of see it as quite a separate issue really.
‘I just think it is what it is and I can kind of separate the two.’
Mr Townsend’s daughter Phoebe, 22, said: ‘I don’t really follow that.
‘I’m just here to see the King.
‘If it was Prince Andrew maybe not, but the King’s the King.’
In October another heckler shouted ‘How long have you known about Andrew and Epstein?’ at the King outside Lichfield Cathedral.
The same man shouted out again: ‘Have you asked the police to cover up for Andrew?’
Before a woman turns around and angrily tells him to ‘shut up’.
Shortly after King Charles made the decision to formally strip his younger brother of all his titles and ostracise him from the Royal Family.
Andrew, who moved from Royal Lodge, his Windsor mansion, to the King’s Sandringham Estate on Tuesday, has previously strongly denied any wrongdoing.
Staff working for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor have reportedly been told they can choose not to serve him at his new home.
The former prince moved out of Windsor’s Royal Lodge on Monday after more than 20 years following his fall from grace due to his friendship with the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
But accusations have followed Andrew into the Wood Farm cottage in Sandringham, where he will stay before the Marsh Farm manor is ready in April.
Several staff have reportedly refused to work for him, an insider claimed.
A source told the Sun: ‘They’ve been told they don’t have to serve Andrew or work for him if they feel uncomfortable.
‘There is already quite a list saying no thanks. There is understandably a lot of disquiet as he is now a total pariah.
‘But there is also a worry that once he gets comfortable at Wood Farm while Marsh Farm is being finished, they will never get him out again.’
It comes after a letter released in the latest batch of Epstein files claimed he asked an erotic dancer for a threesome at the financier’s Florida home, reportedly sparking a strike among the staff.
The 65-year-old is said to have slipped out of the Royal Lodge on the Windsor grounds under the cover of darkness.
Removal trucks were seen leaving the estate yesterday, while Andrew was not spotted.
The village near the Wood Farm turned into a media circus as photographers, TV crews and a helicopter arrived at Wolferton, less than a mile from the cottage, which is located within the King’s private Norfolk estate.
Andrew has also been linked to a fresh police investigation into reports that Epstein allegedly sent a second woman to have a sexual encounter with the former prince at the Royal Lodge.
The alleged incident happened at the royal estate in 2010, when the woman, who is not British, was in her 20s.
Brad Edwards, who also represented Andrew’s accuser, Virginia Giuffre, before her death last year, told BBC News the woman was given a tour of Buckingham Palace afterwards.