Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was publicly labelled a “new Andrew” who “teased” and “pinched the bottoms” of women around the same time that he was introduced to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Archived magazine articles written at the time Mountbatten-Windsor became friends with the convicted sex offender refer to the former duke as an “eligible bachelor” and a “playboy”.
In the 1980s, British media had dubbed Mountbatten-Windsor “Randy Andy” as he spent his 20s partying and parading around with women; by the 1990s, they claimed he had fallen into a middle-aged slump as his marriage to Sarah Ferguson fell apart.
But in August 1999, the year he said he met Epstein, the former Duke of York was described as a man transformed from a “sad, lonely and desolate figure… [with] plump features” to an “eligible bachelor” who “introduced himself to pretty girls he’d never met before”.
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