‘Playboy Prince’ to pariah – most notorious photos of Andrew’s fall from grace

From ‘Randy Andy’ to Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, to criminal suspect, the former prince’s fall has been high, with key steps captured by the camera, following the Epstein scandal

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The Andrew formally known as Prince has had a colossal fall from grace – and his demise can be mapped in four infamous images.

The former royal, who once lived the high life and earned the nickname the ‘Playboy Prince’ due to his keen eye for attractive women, hit a new low on his 66th birthday, having been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

Already ousted from royal duties, stripped of his titles and facing mounting pressure to speak to FBI over his involvement with Jeffery Epstein, the arrest is just the latest chapter in the former Prince’s fallout over the Epstein files.

While Andrew has always strenuously denied any wrong doing, the more information made public in relation to the disgraced peado financier, the more Andrew ends up in the mud.

Four images, now famous worldwide, have been key to Andrew’s downwards spiral, and the Daily Star takes a look at them here.

A peado and a prince take a walk in the park

Andrew was papped taking a stroll with Jeffery Epstein in Central Park after Epstein had been convicted and served time for soliciting prostitution from a minor two years before the photo was taken, in 2010.

During Andrew’s car crash BBC interview, he told Emily Maitlis that he had met Epstein to cut contact with him and had believed that telling Epstein in person was the honourable thing to do.

His versions of events were proved false when it emerged he had emailed the sex offender in 2011, writing: “We are in this together”. Released as part of the Epstein files, the email also reveals Andrew wrote: “Keep in close touch and we’ll play some more soon.”

Prince Andrew and a young Giuffre

While taken in 2001, the image of a 41-year-old Prince Andrew with his hands around the waist of a 17-year-old Virgina Giuffre, with the now-convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell lurking in the background, didn’t see the light of day until a decade later.

Former sex crimes prosecutor Wendy Murphy said the pose had “no innocent explanation”.

Giuffre, who died by suicide last year, was one of the girls trafficked by Epstein and claims she was trafficked to the former prince on three separate occasions as a minor.

Andrew claims to have no recollection of that photo, and has even touted it as fake – his inability to sweat, his jaunt to Pizza Express, all reasons why it couldn’t be him in the photo.

Despite this and while making no admission of liability, Andrew settled a civil case with Giuffre, who received unto £12million pounds.

Andrew hulking over woman lying on the floor

As part of the latest tranche of released Epstein files, Andrew can be seen kneeling over a the body of a woman lying on the floor in a series of snaps. She is wearing a white top and black pants and her face as been redacted.

In one image, he has his hand on the woman’s torso, in another, he is smiling at the camera. The pictures are undated, have no captions and it is not clear where they are taken. While the images do not indicate any wrongdoing, they are really weird and uncomfortable.

Shell-shocked leaving police custody

Plastered across papers and social media since his arrest, is the photo taken by Reuters photographer Phil Noble showing a shellshockedAndrew Mountbatten Windsor leaving the the Aylsham police station after being held for more than 10 hours.

Slumped and broken in the backseat, his eyes’ red from the camera’s flash, Andrew has gone from moving in high circles to being the first royal to be arrested since Charles I in 1647.

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