Calls are growing for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to face both a police and parliamentary inquiry as fresh disclosures raise questions about his links with Jeffrey Epstein and his conduct while serving as the UK’s trade envoy.
The National Police Chiefs’ Council has reportedly set up a national group to coordinate responses to criminal allegations arising from more than three million pages of material released by the US Department of Justice.
At least three forces – Thames Valley Police, the Metropolitan Police and Surrey Police – are said to be assessing the documents, which include claims that Mountbatten-Windsor shared sensitive reports from official trips to Asia with Epstein and his associates.
Thames Valley Police has confirmed it has discussed allegations of misconduct in public office with specialists at the Crown Prosecution Service. No charges have been brought and no formal investigation has been announced.
The Epstein files highlight Mountbatten-Windsor’s activities during his time as trade envoy, a taxpayer-funded role in which he was expected to promote UK business and investment abroad without personal financial gain.
Reports suggest that while on official trips to China and Southeast Asia in 2010, he forwarded confidential diplomatic cables and Treasury briefings to business contacts linked to Epstein.
Other correspondence indicates discussions about potential private investment ventures that overlapped with his official duties. Mountbatten-Windsor has consistently denied wrongdoing.
Political pressure is growing for a parliamentary inquiry into these claims. Conservative MP John Lamont, a member of the Commons’ Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC), said: “The first priority should be allowing the police to undertake any criminal investigation.
“There’s also a case for a parliamentary inquiry, but I wouldn’t want that to get in the way of whatever the police need to do. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor needs to be held to account.”
Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey echoed calls for a public inquiry and said: “The Epstein revelations are hugely damaging to public trust in our institutions.
“It’s clear Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor abused his position as trade envoy, sharing sensitive information about the UK’s interests with his friend, and convicted paedophile, Jeffrey Epstein.
“The police are now rightfully looking into this as we need full transparency to get justice for the victims of this abhorrent abuse. That must also include a public inquiry.”
However, Robert Hazell, professor of Government and the Constitution at University College London, cautioned that compelling Mountbatten-Windsor to appear before a parliamentary committee would be difficult.
“I think the clerk to a committee, supported by more senior clerks, would caution any chair by saying, ‘Just think this through. He might not agree to appear, and then what can we do?’”, Hazell said.
“In theory, they’re meant to be able to clap people in some dungeon underneath Big Ben. But in practice, everybody knows they can’t make that happen. The last thing you want is a complete media circus, which there would certainly be, but parliament to come out of it, having huffed and puffed but actually got nowhere.”
Hazell added that a “possible prosecution for misconduct in public office” could be likely for Mountbatten-Windsor.
“It’s pretty clear that while acting as trade envoy representing the UK Government and UK business, he was, at the same time, passing on information to third parties from which potentially he and or they could profit.”
But he cautioned that this offence can be “potentially difficult” to bring a prosecution for senior officials, as the offence is “far more commonly used against prison officers or relatively junior ranking policemen”.
Misconduct in public office (MiPO) is a common law offence committed when a public officer wilfully neglects their duty or misconducts themselves to such a degree as to amount to an abuse of the public’s trust, without reasonable excuse.
It carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment but is notoriously difficult to define and prosecute.
Between 2014 and 2024, 191 people were convicted, overwhelmingly junior prison or police officers.
Former prime minister Gordon Brown has urged the Metropolitan Police to “urgently” re-examine previous decisions not to pursue aspects of the Epstein case and to interview Mountbatten-Windsor.
Buckingham Palace has stated that the King is “ready to support” any police investigation.
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