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.