Disgraced Boris Johnson claims Andrew ‘has achieved his nation a service’ after Epstein hyperlinks

On Feb 27, 2026

The unhinged former-Prime Minister has decided to weigh into the scandal surrounding Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor as he revealed why he ‘felt a bit sorry’ for the ex-prince

22:58, 27 Feb 2026

Boris Johnson has shockingly claimed Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has “done his country a service” following the fallout surrounding his links to Jeffrey Epstein.

The former Prime Minister rambled on about two times he met the ex-prince and shared his verdict on the King’s disgraced brother, even saying he “felt a bit sorry for” Andrew. The former Duke of York was arrested last Thursday on suspicion of misconduct in public office. He was released under investigation 11 hours after he was detained, on his 66th birthday.

Disgraced Boris Johnson weighed in on the scandal surrounding the former-prince and surprisingly shared why he thought it was the “best thing to have happened to the Royal Family for years”. Andrew has denied all allegations against him.

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The unhinged ex-PM said he first met the then-prince when he was Mayor of London, some point between 2008 – 2016. Johnson claimed he was “bit grumpy” when told he was summoned to meet Andrew but went as it was during the time the ex-Duke served as a trade envoy.

Johnson, in his column in the Daily Mail, said Andrew had come forward to him with a “series of ideas” to make London more attractive to billionaires, which the ex-PM said “perhaps gleaned from some of his international contacts”.

He claimed Andrew ripped into Battersea Power Station, which had not been re-developed at that point, and said “Why don’t we just knock it down?”. Johnson then claimed Andrew was unconvinced about plans at the time to keep the Grade 1 listed building and transform it, with Andrew allegedly saying “It’ll never happen”.

Johnson also claimed the disgraced ex-prince said lots of his pals and “potentially very significant investors” were complaining about a lack of VIP areas and treatment at Heathrow Airport. The ex-PM even alleged that Andrew had a bizarre solution to an idea about a new airport in the Thames estuary.

Johnson said: “He knew that one of the objections was the presence in the waters of a sunken World War II munitions boat called the SS Richard Montgomery. He had a brilliant solution. Why not make a huge steel net and wrap it round the wreck so that if it exploded the shock waves would not damage the airport?”

The ex-PM claimed Andrew also managed to complain about the headache London traffic was causing to his billionaire pals, adding that it was “damaging London’s reputation”.

Johnson also noted another time he met Andrew, when he was Prime Minster, but this time after the ex-Duke’s disastarous Newsnight interview in 2019. Johnson claimed he told the late-Queen’s son to open a pub with Sarah Ferguson and call it the “Duke of York”.

Despite this, Johnson said he “felt sorry” for Andrew, he wrote: “But in a way I felt a bit sorry for him. He was the second son in a system that insisted on male primogeniture. The result was that he didn’t have a role. But now, he does.” He oddly added that the Andrew scandal and fallout could be seen as a good thing for the Royal Family.

The ex-Mayor said: “We look up from reading about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Epstein and Mandelson, and all the horrific things that seem to have happened on that Caribbean island, and we have such a creepy sense of a conspiracy involving money and power and sexual dissolution that we feel we have been fire-hosed with slurry.

“And then we look at the other members of the Royal Family, and think how relatively decent and public-spirited they seem.” Johnson added: “It’s precisely because he makes us shudder, and think of the alternative, that Andrew has done the monarchy a favour.

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“He has made them more intelligible to us, too, because every family has a black sheep or two. By the sheer scale of his disgrace, he has paradoxically intensified the dignity of the crown.”