Prince Andrew Expected to Testify Via Video Link in Threatening Behaviour Trial

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is expected to give evidence via videolink in the trial of a man accused of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour towards him. The King’s brother, who has been stripped of his royal titles, received court permission to testify remotely to avoid disruption at Westminster magistrates’ court.

Alex Jenkinson, 39, of Debenham in Suffolk, appeared at the court on Friday. He pleaded not guilty to charges of using threatening, abusive or insulting words with intent to cause fear or provoke unlawful violence against Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and another man, Stephen Terry.

He pleaded guilty to a separate charge of failing to provide a specimen of blood while in custody on the same day. The alleged incident occurred in Wolferton, close to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s Marsh Farm property on the Sandringham estate, shortly after 7.30pm on 6 May.

Prosecutor Josephine Jones said it is intended for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to give evidence via videolink at a trial scheduled for 29 July. Ms Jones told the court there “certainly is a suggestion” that Jenkinson had an interest in the King’s brother.

Jenkinson was granted conditional bail. He must not go near Sandringham, Buckingham Palace, Balmoral, Windsor or Highgrove, nor contact Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor directly or indirectly, or enter Norfolk.

Mountbatten-Windsor has come under pressure to give evidence to U.S. investigators over his relationship with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Last month, the Crown Prosecution Service said prosecutors were providing early investigative advice to British police carrying out their own inquiries into the royal’s links to the billionaire sex offender.

He was arrested in March on suspicion of misconduct in public office over his connections with the financier while serving as the UK’s trade envoy. He was later released under investigation and has denied any wrongdoing. The 66-year-old was the first senior royal in modern history to be arrested.

After serving 22 years in the Royal Navy, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor became the UK’s special representative for international trade and investment from 2001 until 2011. He paid one of Epstein’s victims, Virginia Giuffre, millions of pounds to settle a civil sexual assault suit in the United States in 2022.

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