Man charged with threatening Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor near Sandringham home

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8 May 2026 • 4:35 PM MYT
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Man charged with threatening Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor near Sandringham home

A man is due to appear in court charged with threatening Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor near his new home on the Sandringham Estate.

Andrew, the former Duke of York, was walking his dogs shortly after 7.30pm when the alleged incident occurred in Wolferton, close to his Marsh Farm property, The Telegraph reported.

Alex Jenkinson, of Stowmarket in Suffolk, has been charged with two counts of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour to harass someone or cause alarm or distress, Norfolk Constabulary said on Thursday night.

The 39-year-old has also been charged with failing to provide a specimen of blood in custody.

He is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday.

Officers said they had responded to a report that a man was behaving “in an intimidating manner in the village”.

Jenkinson was arrested and questioned in King’s Lynn Police Investigation Centre.

In April, the Crown Prosecution Service said that prosecutors were “providing early investigative advice” to the police as they carry out their inquiries into Andrew’s links to Jeffrey Epstein.

The former prince was arrested in March on suspicion of misconduct in public office over his connections with the paedophile financier. He was later released under investigation.

Andrew, who became the first senior royal in modern history to be arrested, is accused of sharing sensitive information with Epstein while serving as the UK’s trade envoy.

Marsh Farm on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk (Joe Giddens/PA)

The former duke, who is eighth in line to the throne, was detained on his 66th birthday following allegations that he shared reports of official visits to Hong Kong, Vietnam and Singapore with disgraced financier Epstein.

He has vehemently denied any wrongdoing over his Epstein links.

After serving for 22 years in the Royal Navy, Andrew became the UK’s special representative for international trade and investment in 2001.

He stepped down in 2011 amid the furore over his friendship with Epstein.

The Duke of York, Virginia Giuffre, and Ghislaine Maxwell (US Department of Justice/PA)

That came in the same year that he was pictured with his arm around his primary accuser, Virginia Giuffre, who alleged she was trafficked to the former duke at the home of convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

Ms Giuffre claimed she had sex with Andrew three times – at Maxwell’s home in London, at Epstein’s New York townhouse and on the disgraced financier’s Caribbean island, Little St James.

Andrew paid Ms Giuffre – a woman he has claimed never to have met – millions of pounds to settle a civil suit in the US in 2022.

The King officially stripped his disgraced brother of both his HRH style and his prince title in late 2025.