Shamed Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor performs with a really impolite ball and a thriller toddler in new photograph

New disturbing photographs of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor playing with a mystery toddler and a ball resembling a woman’s breast inside Royal Lodge emerged today.

The bizarre pictures, apparently taken in 2011 at his grand Berkshire royal home, capture Andrew kneeling and talking to the little boy who is clutching a so-called ‘boob ball’.

In a further image the toddler is shown picking up the lewd sphere off the plush dark wood parquet floor. 

The then Duke of York is also shown grinning with the child on a sofa in pictures published for the first time just hours after his arrest by police following a raid on Sandringham.

Royal Lodge is currently being searched by officers investigating the former prince, who was held on suspicion of misconduct in public office on Thursday. He was bailed after 11 hours in custody.

It is not known who the child in the pictures with Andrew is. His own daughters were in their early twenties at the time and did not have children of their own in 2011.

The never-seen-before pictures emerged in the Epstein Files, which also contain emails from Sarah Ferguson claiming the paedophile financier had a secret son, that she had heard about from Andrew. 

She congratulated Epstein on his ‘baby boy’ in an email sent in September 2011 – the same year the ‘boob ball’ pictures were taken.

Very few images of the interior of Royal Lodge exist due to it being a private royal home, although Princess Eugenie posed for Harper’s Bazaar there in 2016. 

The cornicing in Eugenie’s pictures appears to match those in the background behind Andrew as he plays with the mystery toddler.

The pictures are believed to be in the Epstein Files.

In those millions of documents it was revealed that Andrew’s ex-wife Fergie congratulated Jeffrey Epstein on having a ‘baby boy’ shortly after he was released from jail for soliciting sex from girls as young as 14.

The so-called Epstein Files show that the former Duchess of York offered him her ‘love, friendship and congratulations’ on the birth in a note sent to the paedophile financier in September 2011.

The potential existence of Epstein’s secret son, who would now be 14 and in high school, was revealed in a sycophantic email to him from his friend Fergie, who suggested she heard the news from her ex-husband, Andrew. 

Fergie appears to have used it as an excuse to get back in contact with Epstein, even after his release from prison for child sex offences.

She wrote in the previously unseen email, released in the latest tranche of Epstein files: ‘Don’t know if you’re still on this bbm [BlackBerry Messenger] but have heard from The Duke that you have had a baby boy.’

The email dated September 21, 2011, contains a barbed attack on Epstein from Fergie for apparently cutting off contact with her.

She wrote: ‘Even though you never kept in touch, I am still here with love, friendship and congratulations on your baby boy.’ It is signed: ‘Sarah x’. 

It is not known if Epstein responded to her offer of continued friendship. 

Sarah’s spokesman previously said she had expressed regret about her association with the late financier. 

Unmarried Epstein was never known to have any children, despite sleeping with hundreds of women. 

He had no heir, so his last-known girlfriend, Karyna Shuliak, was set to inherit most of his fortune, properties and his island in a will changed shortly before his death in a New York prison cell in 2019. 

Epstein himself never confessed to having any children in his lifetime. 

But more than 100 people are said to have claimed that they may be his offspring and may have had a claim to his fortune.

‘Jeffrey Epstein was sexually promiscuous for so long that there is a reasonable chance he may have fathered a child,’ the founder of DNA firm Morse Genealogical Services, Harvey Morse, said in 2020, adding: ‘He could even be a grandfather.’

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office may allow police to ‘build a case’ that he was an alleged part of Jeffrey Epstein‘s sex trafficking operation.

The former Duke of York was held on suspicion of misconduct in public office after a raid on his Sandringham home on his 66th birthday yesterday.

He looked visibly shocked as he left Aylsham Police Station in Norfolk last night after more than 11 hours in custody having been processed like a ‘common criminal suspect’.

A convoy of police entered Royal Lodge, Windsor, this morning as searches of his former home continue. A patrol car arrived at Wood Farm, Sandringham, at 6am, where Andrew is staying.

Detectives are probing Andrew’s conduct as a trade envoy for the UK, after emails in the Epstein Files suggested he may have shared confidential information with his paedophile friend, including reports of his official visits and potential investment opportunities.

But leading UK lawyers believe that police, who are searching Andrew’s homes and have access to his devices, can now widen their investigation into any alleged sexual offences.

It came as the Epstein Files revealed that Andrew has been on the radar of US law enforcement, including the FBI, for approaching 15 years. 

Marcus Johnstone, a leading criminal defence lawyer specialising in sex crime, believes that Andrew’s arrest will allow detectives to hunt for evidence related to sexual offences, including allegations Andrew allowed Epstein sex trafficking victims into Buckingham Palace.

Mr Johnstone told the Daily Mail: ‘Andrew’s arrest is not unexpected. His financial ties to Epstein are his legal weak spot.

‘Investigators will be using this as the basis to scrutinise his relationship with Epstein even further, and in doing so build a case that Andrew participated in some way in Epstein’s sex trafficking operation. 

‘His home can now be searched, and formal questions can now be put to him at interview’.

Richard Scorer, the head of abuse law at firm Slater and Gordon, said: ‘If prosecutors build a case which convinces a jury that Andrew misused his position to have sex with young women, in my opinion he could be pursued on that basis.’ 

It came as prime minister Gordon Brown has also submitted new evidence to at least four UK police forces in relation to ‘trafficked girls and women’ as he pushes for Andrew to face a wide investigation.

Using flight logs in the Epstein Files, Mr Brown helped reveal that Epstein’s paedophile’s Boeing 727–100 private jet, dubbed the ‘Lolita Express’ because he used it to host orgies and traffic girls, landed around 90 times in the UK.

The ex-PM has said the flights, many of them through Stansted, are ‘by far the biggest scandal of all’ and he has urged Scotland Yard to begin a sex trafficking investigation into the former Duke of York.

He said last night: ‘I have submitted a five-page memorandum to the Metropolitan, Surrey, Sussex, Thames Valley and other relevant UK police constabularies.

‘This memorandum provides new and additional information to that which I submitted last week to the Met, Essex and Thames Valley police forces where I expressed my concern that we secure justice for trafficked girls and women.’

A haggard Andrew was driven away from a police station on Thursday night following his arrest that shocked the world.

Some 11 hours after officers knocked on his door on the Sandringham estate to arrest him on suspicion of misconduct in public office, a stunned looking Andrew was released under investigation.

As his arrest triggered arguably the biggest crisis in the monarchy for nearly 400 years, his brother, the King, insisted Andrew should be subject to the full force of British justice, saying: ‘The law must take its course.’

In an unprecedented and historic personal statement, Charles, 77, expressed his ‘deepest concern’ at the news police had picked up Andrew, on his 66th birthday, in extraordinary scenes on Thursday morning.

The King also pledged his ‘full and wholehearted support and co-operation’ with the ongoing police investigation.

The charge is a rare but serious crime, liable for trial by jury, and carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.

He has not yet been charged.

Andrew’s arrest sensationally took place on the monarch’s private estate in Norfolk, to where the former Duke of York was recently exiled following his public disgrace.

Following days of behind-closed-doors planning, officers from Thames Valley Police swept along the Sandringham roads in six unmarked police vehicles at 8am.

In the tightly co-ordinated operation, one car advanced on Wood Farm – Prince Philip’s former home which is being used as a temporary bolt-hole by Andrew – via its main driveway while the others circled towards the back, blocking the rear entrance of the five-bedroom property.

While Andrew was being taken into custody at the unassuming Aylsham Police Station about an hour away, a simultaneous raid was being launched 130 miles west at Royal Lodge, his former home in the grounds of Windsor Great Park.

Andrew’s recent departure from the mansion was so swift that many of his belongings remain in the property.

Neither the King nor Buckingham Palace were informed in advance, signalling the police’s determination to show that no-one – not even a former prince – is above the law.

Just after 7pm, following a day of being questioned, he emerged red-eyed and jowly, the image of his release encapsulating his fall from grace as he tried to cower on the back seat of a car driven by privately funded security guards.

The ex-Duke is accused of passing potentially confidential and sensitive documents to his friend, convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, while working as a UK trade envoy between 2001 and 2011.

The clamour for a police investigation had reached a crescendo in recent days following revelations in the three million pages of Epstein Files released by the US Department of Justice at the end of last month.

The investigation and now arrest of a senior member of the Royal Family – the first since Charles I was taken prisoner by parliamentarians in 1637 – has sparked an unprecedented crisis for the monarchy.

While the King has done his best to distance himself from his disgraced brother, including stripping him of his remaining titles and securing his departure from his Royal Lodge mansion last October, the charge still relates to his time as a working royal.

It will, inevitably, raise questions as to who else knew about his behaviour during the decade he served as the UK’s globe-trotting ‘special representative’ for trade and industry, apparently feathering both his own nest and those of his questionable friends.