d any personal gain from his role as a trade envoy, according to British media reports.

He stepped down from official royal duties in 2019 following a calamitous interview with the BBC over his friendship with Epstein. But headlines related to the late financier continued to plague the disgraced royal. In 2025, King Charles stripped his younger brother of his title as prince, following public outcry after the release of a posthumous memoir by Virginia Giuffre, a prominent accuser of Epstein who alleged that Mountbatten-Windsor had sexually assaulted her as a teenager.

Giuffre - who the prince claims never to have met - died by suicide in April 2025 at the age of 41. In addition to denying all allegations against him, Mountbatten-Windsor has also previously insisted he never witnessed or suspected any of the behavior of which Epstein is accused.