Was Lord Mountbatten, Andrew's grand-uncle, also involved in child sex abuse?
India Today
Andrew Windsor Mountbatten, who was stripped of his prince title over his links with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, was arrested in the UK on Thursday. Andrew is the grand-nephew of Lord Mountbatten, the last British viceroy in India. Lord Mountbatten was accused of being involved in a child sex ring, involving an orphanage in Belfast. Here's what we know about the Kincora Boys' Home scandal.
Andrew Windsor Mountbatten, formerly Prince Andrew, was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Andrew was stripped off his royal title in November 2025 over his links with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. There are images of then-Prince Andrew in the Epstein Files, which have documents alleging child sex abuse among others. Andrew is the grand-nephew of Lord Louis Mountbatten, the last viceroy of India, who too was accused of child sex abuse.
While the allegations against former Prince Andrew linked to the Epstein Files are in the news, people aren't aware of the charges against his grand-uncle, Lord Mountbatten.
Lord Mountbatten, who was the viceroy when India gained Independence and oversaw the bloody Partition, was accused of being involved in the Kincora Boys' Home scandal. The case has to do with an organised child sexual abuse ring at an orphanage in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the 1970s.
This article is based on reports and books. It needs to be stated that Lord Mountbatten isn't alive to defend himself. In fact, he was killed a year before the first allegations of abuse at the Belfast orphanage, to which he was later linked, emerged.
Lord Mountbatten was killed in Northern Ireland in 1979 in a blast triggered by the Irish Republican Army (IRA), an insurgent group that was fighting for a united Irish homeland.
Lord Mountbatten's name reportedly figured in FBI files from the 1940s in connection with his "love for young boys". The Belfast Kincora Boys' Home Scandal was in the news as recently as in 2022, when a person, one of them who claimed to have been abused by the British royal launched a legal action.
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