Max Colchester

And I think there are some very tawdry details in there, such as Andrew inviting four women to Buckingham Palace for dinner with Epstein.

In 2010, such as Epstein suggesting that he have dinner in London with a beautiful Russian woman.

These are all details that really ram home quite shocking revelations for many people here.

Well, I think what you've got to understand about the royal family is it's...

When you talk to the members or the people who work in Buckingham Palace, they worry a lot about the vibe in the country.

And what this means is that for the next few months, maybe years, there is going to be a drumbeat of negative headlines coming out about Andrew.

They have done their best, as you say, to put distance between themselves and Andrew.

They've stripped his...

He's no longer prince.

He's no longer allowed to live on the Windsor estate.

He has forfeited the right to use his title of the Duke of York.

But at the end of the day, in British people's minds, he's still part of the royal family.

And that's a challenge that the Buckingham Palace is going to have to face up to for the foreseeable future.

Thanks very much.

In the UK, the Epstein scandal has morphed from something which focused on potential bad behaviour by individuals, which was chronicled in the tabloids, into what could now morph into a police investigation.

On Friday, documents were made public which appear to show that a former senior member of the British government, Lord Peter Mandelson, was falsely

forwarding internal information from Downing Street to Epstein directly, which raises the question of whether Epstein was able to trade on that non-public information.

The British police have said they are looking at the emails in question and will determine whether to launch a fully-fledged investigation.

And there's a key ramification from this, which is now British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is saying that Peter Mandelson and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor should give evidence

to the House Oversight Committee, and the Prime Minister has suggested that Lord Mandelson should quit Britain's House of Lords.