Andrew ‘flew lady to UK on Epstein’s Lolita jet and took her to Buckingham Palace’: Pressure mounts to launch intercourse trafficking probe into ex-prince over 90 flights carrying women from all over the world

Police are being urged to launch a sex trafficking probe into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor over Epstein’s ‘Lolita Express’ landing 90 times in the UK carrying young women from around the world.

Andrew allegedly smuggled girls into Buckingham Palace, apparently with little or no security clearance, telling aides: ‘Mrs Windsor will arrive shortly, please let her in and show her up’.

One is alleged to have come to visit after landing on Epstein’s Lolita Express plane. 

The Epstein Files have laid bare just how many times the paedophile financier’s private jet landed in the UK. His Boeing 727–100 hosted orgies, sex parties and trafficked girls.

Flight logs show it landed at Stansted and Heathrow as well as quieter, lesser known airports across the south of England. 

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called it ‘by far the biggest scandal of all’ and has urged Scotland Yard to begin a criminal investigation into the former Duke of York beyond misconduct in public office and breach of the Official Secrets Act.

Mr Brown said women were moved from one Epstein plane to another at the hub in Essex, with the BBC uncovering evidence of incomplete flight logs that showed unnamed passengers were labelled as ‘female’ and names of male passengers also unknown.

Mr Brown wrote in the New Statesman: ‘In short, British authorities had little or no idea who was being trafficked through our country, and for whom other than Epstein.’

He added: ‘I have been told privately that the investigations related to the former Prince Andrew did not properly check vital evidence of flights. I have asked the police to look at this as part of the new inquiry. The Stansted revelations alone require them to interview Andrew.

‘Separately, a line of emails concerns the logistics of registering trafficked girls for English-as-a-foreign-language courses, as a route to obtaining US visas. We need to know if and to what extent this was also happening in the UK.’

Also in the UK, ex-victims’ commissioner Dame Vera Baird urged police to ‘start properly investigating’ Andrew; while the MP who heads the Commons Women and Equalities Committee said Andrew must answer to the police and Parliament. 

They all spoke out as a senior US politician claimed the woman pictured on the floor under Andrew at Epstein’s New York mansion was a sex trafficking victim.

Three images of the former prince crouching over an unidentified woman in the paedophile financier’s home were among the Epstein files released on January 30.

The undated pictures have no captions but were released in a document of 100 pages of photographs, and also appear to show Andrew touching the woman’s abdomen. Another unidentified person’s feet can be seen up on a table in the background.

While the context remains unknown, California congressman Ted Lieu asked for the images to be shown at the House Judiciary Committee in Washington DC yesterday.

He made the claim about the woman being a sex trafficking victim while questioning US Attorney General Pam Bondi over why Andrew has never been prosecuted.

At yesterday’s hearing in the US, Mr Lieu said: ‘I’m going to show you two photos of former Prince Andrew. Prince Andrew attended various parties with Jeffrey Epstein.

‘Under the law Congress passed, you were allowed to redact photos to protect the victims of Epstein’s sex trafficking operation. You redacted the photos of this victim’s face because you were following the congressional law, is that correct?’

Ms Bondi replied: ‘I’m sorry, that we redacted the victim’s face?’ Mr Lieu told her: ‘Because you were following the congressional law, correct?’ Ms Bondi said: ‘Yes’.

Mr Lieu continued: ‘You have now established that we – please put the photos back up – that we are looking at a sex trafficking victim. 

‘Under the federal Victims Trafficking Protection Act, not only is Jeffrey Epstein guilty, but anyone who patronises Epstein’s sex operation is also guilty of a crime.

‘That’s why I find it absolutely despicable that you sought to protect Epstein’s clients, like former Prince Andrew. Last July, you closed the case on Epstein’s abusers.

‘The July 2025 memo from your Department of Justice stated: ‘We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties’. 

‘These two photos – please put the photos back up – these two photos staring you in the face are evidence of a crime, and more than enough evidence to predicate an investigation against former Prince Andrew.

‘So I ask you, Attorney General Pam Bondi, why did you shut down this investigation last July? And why have you not prosecuted former Prince Andrew?’

But Ms Bondi replied: ‘I don’t believe you asked Merrick Garland these questions when he was Attorney General and sat before you twice, did you? Never mentioned it.’

Mr Lieu said: ‘I agree with you. During the during the Biden administration, I called for people looking at Epstein files. Merrick Garland dropped the ball as did Attorney General Bill Barr, as did Alex Acosta, a whole string of failures, but you are in charge. 

‘You have the power to change things to hold these men accountable, and you’re doing the opposite, you’re protecting them.’

It is not known whether Mr Lieu has had special insight on the Epstein investigations, but some US politicians are understood to have viewed unredacted files.

The Department of Justice, which published more than three million documents relating to Epstein in the latest release, has never brought charges against Andrew.

Many women connected to Epstein have previously been described by the US as sex trafficking victims under law – but this characterisation had never been given to the woman in the Andrew photos until yesterday’s hearing.

There is no suggestion of criminal activity from the pictures themselves, and Andrew has always strenuously denied any wrongdoing.

Meanwhile today, Dame Vera called for police to ‘start properly investigating’ Andrew’s links with Jeffrey Epstein.

She told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that she previously raised the disgraced royal with the Metropolitan Police, but was told ‘there wasn’t much to go on’ for UK investigators after the alleged criminality linked to Epstein had mostly occurred abroad.

Dame Vera said the situation had ‘changed very radically’ in light of new evidence – and references in the Epstein files to Stansted had been ‘absolutely new to me’.

She also referred to an email from Ghislane Maxwell which appeared to confirm the infamous photograph of Andrew with his late accuser Virginia Giuffre was real.

Dame Vera said: ‘All of that reinforces the position I held when I was victims’ commissioner – that it is time to investigate this and that we look quite odd if we don’t.’

Also today, Labour’s Sarah Owen, chair of the Commons Women and Equalities Committee, said: ‘Parliament is rightly focusing its attention on Peter Mandelson but, along with accusations of other heinous crimes during his time as trade envoy to Singapore, Vietnam, China and Hong Kong in 2010, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor passed extremely sensitive material on to Epstein and his accomplices.

‘Isn’t it time that, as well as Peter Mandelson, we called on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to answer to both the police and to Parliament?’

Cabinet Office minister Chris Ward replied: ‘Everyone in this House has been sickened and dismayed at the revelations from all of the Epstein papers that have come through, and in relation to what (Ms Owen) just said, obviously that is outside the scope of this humble address, and that is a matter for the Palace.’

It comes as Thames Valley Police said yesterday that it held discussions with specialists from the Crown Prosecution Service about allegations that Andrew shared confidential reports from his role as the UK’s trade envoy with sex offender Epstein.

Earlier yesterday, Director of Public Prosecutions Stephen Parkinson told journalists they were ‘in close contact’ with both the Metropolitan and Thames Valley police, but have not been asked for formal advice yet. 

Emails released by the Department of Justice appear to show the former duke sharing reports of official visits to Hong Kong, Vietnam, and Singapore.

Files released by US authorities also include claims a woman was sent to the UK by Epstein for a sexual encounter with Andrew in 2010.

Separately, the Metropolitan Police has launched an investigation into Peter Mandelson over alleged misconduct in public office.

The inquiry is linked to allegations that Mandelson sent market-sensitive information to the paedophile financier Epstein while he was business secretary during the financial crisis.

On Monday, Buckingham Palace said it would ‘stand ready to support’ the police if approached over the claims. A spokesman added that the King had made clear his ‘profound concern’ at allegations over his brother’s conduct.

The Prince and Princess of Wales publicly addressed the Epstein scandal for the first time on Monday, with Kensington Palace saying they were ‘deeply concerned’ at the ‘continued revelations’ and that their thoughts ‘remain focused on the victims’. 

Andrew is effectively no longer a royal, becoming a commoner after he was stripped by the monarch of his right to be a prince and his dukedom late last year over his association with Epstein.

He remains in the line of succession, being eighth in line to the throne, having gradually moved down after being born second in line.

Much of the work of the Royal Family in recent weeks has been overshadowed by the Epstein scandal, despite the King’s attempts to draw a line under the matter when he banished Andrew and removed his titles.

The fresh trove of documents released by the Department of Justice has sparked a string of allegations against Andrew.

They include claims that a second woman was sent to the UK by Epstein for a sexual encounter with Andrew, and also that the former prince and Epstein asked an exotic dancer for a threesome in the latter’s Florida home.

Andrew has never been questioned by police over claims by Virginia Giuffre. 

Ms Giuffre, who died by suicide last year, alleged that she was forced to have sex three times with Andrew, including when she was 17, and also in London after she was trafficked by Epstein, and at an orgy on Epstein’s private Caribbean island.

The former duke vehemently denied the claims.

The Met previously said it was made aware in 2015 of allegations around non-recent trafficking for sexual exploitation including to central London in 2001.

But it concluded in 2016 that because the investigation would be largely focused on activities and relationships outside the UK, the Met was not the appropriate authority to conduct the inquiries so the matter would not proceed to a full criminal investigation.

The decision was reviewed in August 2019, but in November that year the Met confirmed it would remain unchanged.

In December, the Met decided not to launch a criminal investigation into reports that Andrew asked his taxpayer-funded bodyguard to dig up dirt on Ms Giuffre.

Her family have said they are ‘deeply disappointed’ by the force’s decision to drop the investigation ‘without explanation’.

Meanwhile a poll found earlier this week that support for the monarchy has fallen to 45 per cent amid the ongoing Epstein scandal.

The survey, commissioned by the anti-monarchy campaign group Republic, found that the proportion of the British public in favour of the monarchy had dropped three percentage points, down from 48 per cent, over the last four months.