Andrew Mountbatten has been spotted for the first time since being stripped of his titles and booted out of the Royal Lodge.
The disgraced former prince was seen on horseback this morning near Windsor Castle.
It marks his first public outing since the recent developments around Andrew’s connection to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein made his position as a working Prince in the Royal family untenable.
Following the recent controversy, it was announced that Andrew would forfeit his prince and Duke of York titles, would be ejected from Royal Lodge and relocate to Sandringham.
The ex-Prince has been sequestered from public life during the move.
But today, Andrew was seen for the first time on a horse ride, a common hobby he enjoyed across the Windsor estate before the Epstein scandal unfolded.
This comes just days before Andrew's looming deadline to submit a “transcribed interview” about his “long-standing friendship” with Epstein to the US Congress, according to the Mirror.
Andrew was notified earlier this week that the US House Oversight Committee had documents showing "financial records containing notations such as 'massage for Andrew' that raise serious questions".
The letter asks him to sit for an interview, saying: "We write to seek your co-operation in the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform's (Committee) investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking operations.
"The committee is seeking to uncover the identities of Mr Epstein's co-conspirators and enablers and to understand the full extent of his criminal operations.
"Well-documented allegations against you, along with your long-standing friendship with Mr Epstein, indicate that you may possess knowledge of his activities relevant to our investigation.
"In the interest of justice for the victims of Jeffrey Epstein, we request that you co-operate with the committee's investigation by sitting for a transcribed interview with the Committee."
The decision of Andrew’s brother, King Charles, to strip him of his titles came after the late accuser of Jeffrey Epstein, Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoirs were published, alongside the US government sharing papers from Epstein’s estate.
In the memoir, Ms Giuffre claimed she was forced to have sex with Andrew on three separate occasions: once at convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell’s London residence when she was 17 years old; once at Epstein’s property in Manhattan, and once on Epstein’s infamous private island, Little St James, in which Andrew was allegedly involved in an orgy involving “underage” girls.
Andrew has categorically refuted all claims made against him.
The decision of the King to strip Andrew of his titles, honours and Royal privileges, including kicking him out of his 30-bedroom Royal Lodge mansion in Windsor, came to prove that “he had understood and listened to the people", according to a Royal source.
This decision came shortly after the King was heckled whilst on a visit to Lichfield Cathedral in Staffordshire earlier this month, where a member of the public demanded to know how long he had been aware of Andrew’s relationship with Epstein, and whether he had requested police “cover up” for his brother.
