The convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein sent a note to author Michael Wolff before he was found dead in his cell

The FBI's verdict on the Jeffrey Epstein case will likely be bad news for Prince Andrew for a major reason. The Duke of York has been permanently staying at Royal Lodge in Windsor since 2019 amid fears of an arrest if he left the UK over his links to the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

On Monday, the Justice Department and the FBI released a memo evoking outrage from both President Donald Trump’s critics and his most ardent supporters. That memo claimed there was no evidence that Jeffrey Epstein had a list of powerful men who participated in his alleged underworld of sex trafficking and pedophilia.

An attorney representing victims of Jeffrey Epstein accused the government of holding back information on his associates but stopped short of pointing fingers at any high-powered officials.

Prince Andrew may be the King’s brother, but he will never be able to step in for the monarch on the royal stage for one reason. The Duke of York, 65, has not been a working royal since becoming involved in a number of scandals, with one scandal seeing him accused of sexual abuse by Virginia Giuffre, a victim of Andrew’s ex-friend Jeffrey Epstein.