A man has been charged with harassing Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor after reports the former Prince Andrew was threatened by a masked man while walking dogs near his home.
Alex Jenkinson, 39, faces two charges of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behavior to harass or cause alarm or distress at Norwich Magistrates Court on Friday.
Norfolk Constabulary announced the charges on Thursday evening.
Police said the suspect was arrested on Wednesday evening after reports a man was “behaving in an intimidating manner” near Andrew’s home in the east of England.
The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported that a man wearing a balaclava ran towards the former royal family while shouting abuse.
Mountbatten-Windsor, 66, the younger brother of King Charles III, moved to the king’s private Sandringham estate, about 100 miles north of London, after being evicted from his longtime home near Windsor Castle following revelations about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
He was stripped of all his honors and titles and banished from public view by the royal family after years of scandal over his money problems and ties to questionable characters, including Epstein.
One of Epstein’s accusers, Virginia Giuffre, alleged that she was forced to have sex with the then-prince three times starting at the age of 17.
He denied it, but eventually settled the case for an undisclosed amount and acknowledged Giuffre’s suffering as a sex trafficking victim. Giuffre died by suicide in April 2025 at the age of 41.
In February, he became the first British royal in nearly 400 years to be arrested when he was held for hours by British police on suspicion of misconduct in public office in a case related to his links to Epstein.
Police had previously said they were “assessing” reports that Mountbatten-Windsor sent trade information to Epstein, a wealthy investor and convicted sex offender, in 2010, when the former prince was Britain’s special envoy for international trade.
Correspondence between the two men was released by the US Department of Justice, along with millions of pages of documents from the US investigation into Epstein.
