{"id":11679212,"date":"2026-02-23T12:34:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/?p=11679212"},"modified":"2026-02-23T13:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:50:08","slug":"prince-andrew-louvre-photo-police-custody-mountbatten-windsor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11679212\/prince-andrew-louvre-photo-police-custody-mountbatten-windsor\/","title":{"rendered":"Activists hang photo of former prince Andrew in the Louvre"},"content":{"rendered":"

A British activist organization hung a photo at the Louvre<\/a>\u00a0of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor<\/a> (formerly known as Prince Andrew)<\/a> taken after his arrest last week.<\/p>\n

The political campaign group Everyone Hates Elon<\/a> placed the Reuters photo of the former prince \u2014 showing him looking frazzled and shocked as he slouches in the back seat of a Range Rover \u2014 on a wall of the Parisian gallery on Sunday. The photographer of the now-infamous picture is Phil Noble.<\/p>\n

The protest group shared a video on Instagram<\/a> of the process, showing someone affixing the framed image to the wall. It remained on the wall of the Louvre for approximately one hour before being taken down, reports ITV News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Underneath the photo was a plaque, which read “He’s Sweating Now,” a reference to a statement made by Mountbatten-Windsor during an interview with British journalist Emily Maitliss in 2019, in which he said Virginia Giuffre<\/a>‘s claims that he was sweaty while dancing with her at a London club were false because he had a condition that temporarily stopped him from perspiring.<\/p>\n

Giuffre, one of the most outspoken victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>, said she was trafficked by the late financier to Mountbatten-Windsor and forced to have sex with him when she was 17. The former prince denies any criminal wrongdoing, but in 2022, he settled a lawsuit with the late mother of three, reportedly<\/a> for an estimated \u00a310 million or more.<\/p>\n

Giuffre died by suicide in April 2025.<\/p>\n

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