LATEST: The Epstein files drop — what next for Andrew?
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🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The latest and possibly final batch of documents was released on Friday by the US Department of Justice in their investigation of Jeffrey Epstein. New shocking discoveries have been made over the weekend that put Lord Mandelson, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, and now Sarah Ferguson, Andrew’s ex-wife, in the spotlight. What have we learned so far? And what does the future hold for the rich and powerful mentioned in these documents?
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| 0:00.0 | From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. I'm Manvine Rana. |
| 0:08.9 | Today we are producing more than 3 million pages, including more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images. |
| 0:19.2 | On Friday, a press conference at the U Department of Justice, watched by newsrooms around the |
| 0:26.4 | world, announced the release of an absolutely enormous tranche of new documents. |
| 0:33.1 | This was the latest and as far as we know, the final drop of the Epstein files. |
| 0:39.7 | The latest dump from the Epstein files after weeks of political pressure. |
| 0:44.3 | Not all of the information in there will be verified or necessarily true. |
| 0:50.2 | Journalists have been pouring over the files ever since they were released, and it didn't |
| 0:55.9 | take long to find some startling new documents. |
| 1:00.0 | Pictures appearing to show Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, crouched over an unidentified woman, |
| 1:04.7 | are featured in the latest disclosure of files linked to the late American sex offender |
| 1:09.3 | Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 1:11.0 | The files, which will have dealt a fresh blow to Buckingham Palace, have reignited public |
| 1:17.6 | outrage over the extent of the relations between the former Duke and the convicted child |
| 1:23.4 | sex offender. There is further fallout from the Epstein files. British Prime Minister Kier Stalmers says the disgraced former Prince Andrew Mountbatten |
| 1:32.3 | Windsor should testify before the US Congress about his links to the deceased child sex offender, |
| 1:40.3 | Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 1:42.3 | So what have we now learned about the strength of the links between the former prince and Jeffrey Epstein. So what have we now learned about the strength of the links between the former prince |
| 1:46.6 | and Jeffrey Epstein? |
| 1:48.3 | And the files read like a roll call of the rich and powerful. |
| 1:53.3 | So will there ever be a public reckoning? |
| 2:00.7 | The The story today, the new Epstein Files. I'm Kate Mancy. I'm the assistant editor and royal editor at the Times. |
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