Oh dear. Can you plead the fifth amendment in the United Kingdom? Or perhaps “I do not recall” will help Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor now that he has been summoned to the High Court. Albeit as a witness; he is not accused of wrongdoing.
A judge has ordered Mountbatten-Windsor to give evidence in a fraud case explaining payments made to him, including a transfer of £750,000. The payments are linked to Selman Turk, a former Goldman Sachs banker who stands accused of stealing £40m from his client Nebahat Evyap Işbilen.
Turk, who strongly denies the allegations, said the transfers were in part a gift and a loan to help the former prince pay for a Swiss chalet.
Mountbatten-Windsor has not commented on the matter thus far. But unless his legal team manages to argue down the summons, it is the first time his finances will be picked over in a public forum. The royal reckoning that Buckingham Palace has spent years trying to avoid is on – and it couldn’t have come at a worse time.
The problem, you see, is Mountbatten-Windsor’s confidence is riding high. Higher than it’s ever been since November 2019 when his infamous BBC Newsnight interview aired and he lost all glory. Higher than it’s been since the release of the Epstein files this January.
Higher than the day of his 66th birthday in February when he was arrested by Thames Valley Police, taken in for 12 hours of questioning, and returned to Sandringham photographed in a car looking wild-eyed and traumatised as a hostage. (While he remains under investigation for misconduct in public office, he has always denied any wrongdoing.)
Murmurings have confirmed that Andrew is back. Low-key back. At shooting weekends. At Norfolk kitchen suppers. At private social events. It was the Daily Mail’s Richard Eden who first reported that “the grandees of north Norfolk have concluded that the former duke of York should not be shunned forever like some leper in the pre-Christian world”. Then more and more spilled out.
Of course, in the aristocratic world the unwritten road to redemption is an invitation. As I wrote in my newsletter High Society Diary a few weeks back, “it may be that Andrew is the star surprise guest in these closed spaces. Popping back up with the dirty jokes he was known for and nodding along about how it’s all gone too far. It is the kind of appearance he would relish.”
A lack of confidence has never really been Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s problem. His ailment is an overinflated ego. He is grand. Very grand. As biographer Andrew Lownie wrote in his bestselling book Entitled, he has been known to ask people who do not stand, bow and curtsey properly to leave the room and “try that again”. I have met many who second that he displayed this kind of behaviour consistently.
Mountbatten-Windsor has been further emboldened. Just last month, via lawyers, he stuck his head above the parapet and took Thames Valley Police to court in a closed hearing. “For goodness sakes,” many thought. “Can’t he just zip it?” But critics were wrong: he was vindicated. A judge found search warrants had not been lawfully issued to the police when granted in February, and therefore should be quashed. One can only imagine the rampant mood among Mountbatten-Windsor and the corgis at Marsh Farm that evening. It will have been a huge morale boost.
The poor King. On the last day of his royal tour to Antigua, having been drenched in howling rain, having had to move delicately around the words “slavery” and “sorry”, now he will have found out his wily brother, the famed Randy Andy, is about to go public once more. The unofficial gag order Charles had effectively slapped on him by removing his dukedom, getting him out of Royal Lodge and into hiding on the Sandringham Estate, is over.
It extends beyond public embarrassment for the monarch – the money trail in question involves not just Mountbatten-Windsor but his ex-wife and children. It involves a time when he was a working royal and a prince.
Remember what happened the last time he opened his mouth? Pizza Express Woking. Straightforward shooting weekends. Not being able to sweat. This time the stakes are higher, and everyone from the King to his daughters should be worried. Now that he’s been given a chance to speak, anything could happen.
With social rehabilitation bubbling, he is on the up, which is the most dangerous thing possible. If his lawyers don’t manage to bat this down, it will be Gielgud-level rehearsal. The PR bootcamp he should have been put through all along. Because Mountbatten-Windsor’s greatest enemy is himself and he’s the only one who doesn’t realise it. The walls of Buckingham Palace, on the other hand, know it all too well.
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