Did the Met Police cover up for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Today we have an exclusive investigation into the relationship between the Metropolitan Police Royal Protection officers and the royals they served. Did things become too cosy? Were they encouraged to ignore wrong doing? And why did none of them want to work for Prince Andrew?
LBC crime correspondent and The Crime Agents host, Andy Hughes, has a story from inside the force.
And later, we speak to Virginia Giuffre’s brother Sky Roberts about why he thinks the Met needs to move faster and call Andrew in for questioning.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Global Player Original podcast. I think for Andrew in particular, I think his brother |
| 0:08.2 | has done an amazing job of putting pressure on him, but there's no way he should be living |
| 0:13.2 | where he's living and still holding the esteem that he has. I mean, I know he's been stripped of |
| 0:17.8 | his titles, but like he looks like he's still pretty comfortable these days. Like, I think for somebody that may have committed these |
| 0:24.5 | types of crimes, there should be a more thorough investigation that takes place. And if it is |
| 0:29.3 | found that he's implicated, then he needs to be put behind bars. |
| 0:33.0 | That is Sky Roberts. He's the brother of Virginia Roberts, Virginia Dufre, Jeffrey Epstein's most vocal victim. |
| 0:42.0 | And he's talking to us about the relationship between the Met Police and the royal family. |
| 0:49.0 | In particular, why things aren't moving faster with the case of the former Prince Andrew. |
| 0:55.1 | We also hear from a Royal Protection Officer who says that the Royalty Unit in the police |
| 1:01.4 | were terrified of reporting any questionable behaviour from the Royals. |
| 1:07.2 | It sounds like Scotland Yard is about to change its whole attitude towards policing |
| 1:13.4 | and the royal family. Welcome to the newsagents. The Newsagents. It's John. It's Emily. And that was |
| 1:25.4 | Sky Roberts, the brother of Virginia Dufre, Virginia Roberts, as was, |
| 1:31.6 | talking to us about where they feel the investigation into former Prince Andrew is now going. |
| 1:39.3 | And today we're going to bring you a story of our own, or rather a story by Andy Hughes of the crime agents, |
| 1:45.8 | who's been looking into the relationship between the royal family and the Met Police, in particular, |
| 1:53.7 | that close bond between protection officers and the royal family, and where they see their, their loyalty, vis-a-vis the police and the royals. |
| 2:07.1 | So Andy, just take us through, first of all, how you met the source that we're going to hear from today. |
| 2:13.2 | Yeah, it won't surprise either of you that protection officers very, very rarely speak to journalists. |
| 2:21.9 | And the reason for that is they like to operate in the shadows. |
| 2:26.3 | But this certain officer who I've known for a while, he felt compelled to speak to me after the release of the Epstein files. |
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