LONDON – A man has been charged following an incident involving Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, where the former Prince Andrew was allegedly threatened by a masked individual while out walking his dogs near his residence.
Alex Jenkinson, aged 39, is scheduled to appear before Norwich Magistrates Court on Friday. He faces two charges of using threatening, abusive, or insulting words or behavior intended to harass or cause alarm and distress. Norfolk Constabulary confirmed the charges late Thursday.
According to police, the arrest occurred on Wednesday evening after reports surfaced of a man exhibiting “intimidating behavior” close to Andrew’s home in eastern England.
The Daily Telegraph reported that the suspect, donning a ski mask, rushed towards the former royal while shouting abusive remarks.
Mountbatten-Windsor, 66, who is King Charles III’s younger sibling, relocated to the private Sandringham Estate, approximately 100 miles (160 kilometers) from London. This move followed his eviction from his longstanding residence near Windsor Castle in the wake of connections to Jeffrey Epstein becoming public.
He has been stripped of all his royal honors and titles and has largely retreated from the public eye following a series of scandals involving financial troubles and associations with controversial figures, including Epstein.
One of Epstein’s accusers, Virginia Giuffre, alleged that she was forced to have sex with the then-prince three times starting when she was 17. He denied it, but eventually settled the case for an undisclosed sum and acknowledged Giuffre’s suffering as a victim of sex trafficking. Giuffre died by suicide in April 2025, aged 41.
In February, he became the first senior British royal in almost 400 years to be arrested when he was held for hours by British police on suspicion of misconduct in public office in a case related to his links to Epstein.
Police had previously said they were “assessing” reports that Mountbatten-Windsor sent trade information to Epstein, a wealthy investor and convicted sex offender, in 2010, when the former prince was the U.K. special envoy for international trade.
Correspondence between the two men was released by the U.S. Justice Department along with millions of pages of documents from the American investigation into Epstein.
