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A man was arrested in eastern England on suspicion of possessing an offensive weapon after reports that the former Prince Andrew was threatened while walking his dogs near his home, Norfolk Constabulary said. Officers arrested the suspect Wednesday evening after a report that a person was acting in an intimidating manner near Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s residence, the force said on Thursday.
Norfolk Constabulary said officers attended the scene and arrested the man on suspicion of a public order offense and possession of an offensive weapon. The force said the suspect was being held for questioning at a nearby police station.
The term “offensive weapons” in the force’s statement covers items such as knives and truncheons, and police did not specify the type of weapon involved. The arrest followed the initial report of intimidation near Mountbatten-Windsor’s home in eastern England.
The Daily Telegraph reported that a man wearing a ski mask ran toward the former royal while shouting abuse. It said the incident took place near the Sandringham Estate while Mountbatten-Windsor was out walking his dogs, and that Andrew and a protection officer drove away from the area.
Mountbatten-Windsor, the younger brother of King Charles III, moved to the king’s private Sandringham Estate, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) north of London, after leaving his longtime home near Windsor Castle. The article said he was evicted from Royal Lodge following revelations about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and was living at Marsh Farm on the Sandringham Estate after leaving Royal Lodge last year.
The AP account also said Mountbatten-Windsor was stripped of honors and banished from public view by the royal family after years of scandal over money problems and links to Epstein. It cited Virginia Giuffre’s allegation that she was forced to have sex with him three times starting when she was 17, which he denied, and said he later settled the case for an undisclosed sum while acknowledging Giuffre’s suffering as a victim of sex trafficking.
The AP story further said Giuffre died by suicide in April 2025, aged 41, and noted that in February Mountbatten-Windsor became the first senior British royal in almost 400 years to be arrested. It said police held him for hours on suspicion of misconduct in public office in a case related to links to Epstein.
Police previously said they were “assessing” reports that Mountbatten-Windsor sent trade information to Epstein in 2010, when the former prince was the United Kingdom’s special envoy for international trade. The AP article said correspondence between the men was released by the U.S. Justice Department along with millions of pages of documents from the U.S. investigation into Epstein.