Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s continued scandal could incite "huge public unrest."
A YouGov poll of more than 4,500 people has shown 75 percent of Britons believe the former Prince should travel to the U.S. and answer for his links to late convicted child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
The former Duke of York, who has recently been stripped of his titles, has to date avoided testifying under oath despite claiming in his infamous 2019 interview that he’d assist U.S. investigators.
He said at the time: "If push came to shove and the legal advice was to do so, then I would be duty bound to do so."
Now, he’s set to leave his home of more than two decades in Windsor: the Royal Lodge. Andrew will move to the King’s privately owned Sandringham estate. But there are fears that the public could turn up during his move and protest.
One senior household figure told Radar Online, "There is genuine concern that the atmosphere could turn extremely hostile once he leaves the gates. People feel he has run out of places to hide."
"The worry is that the refusal to testify has become symbolic – and once he's out in the open, the reaction could be volatile," said another source.
"Staff working in the household understand just how tense the public mood is. If Andrew refuses once more to go to the US and testify, they worry the backlash could be unlike anything the monarchy has faced in decades," said a third mole.
Another source added, "There's a feeling that this can't be pushed aside any longer – not when the vast majority of the public is calling for the same thing."
Meanwhile, the Epstein emails released recently revealed that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s name was mentioned in the documents 173 times, more than the paedophile’s right-hand hand, Ghislaine Maxwell.
