Video: Activists hang disgraced ex-royal Andrew's arrest photo in the Louvre

Members of the UK-based campaign group Everyone Hates Elon hung an arrest photograph of ex-Prince Andrew inside the Louvre Museum in Paris on Sunday, saying they wanted to show “how the world will remember” the former British royal, as reported by the Euro News website.

For about 15 minutes, the image appeared on a gallery wall near iconic works including the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo. The activists mounted the photograph with a caption reading, “He’s sweating now,” referencing Andrew’s widely criticised 2019 Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis. In that interview, he claimed he could not sweat and denied allegations made by Virginia Giuffre, who had said she saw him perspiring during an encounter at a nightclub.

Giuffre, who died by suicide last year, had accused Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor of having sex with her when she was a minor being trafficked by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Andrew has consistently denied any wrongdoing.

The photograph displayed at the Louvre shows Mountbatten-Windsor slumped in the back seat of a Range Rover after leaving a Norfolk police station on 19 February, hours after authorities arrested him on suspicion of misconduct in public office. He spent 11 hours in police custody. The arrest marked the first detention of a senior member of the British royal family since that of King Charles I in 1647.

Everyone Hates Elon posted a video on Instagram showing its members mounting the image. “They say ‘hang it in the Louvre’. So we did,” the group wrote. In a statement to Reuters, the campaigners said they wanted to demonstrate how the former Duke of York would be remembered and added, “Let’s hope this is just the start. Justice for all Epstein survivors.”

Louvre staff removed the photograph within 15 minutes.

Authorities arrested Mountbatten-Windsor after the United States government released millions of documents related to Epstein. The documents included copies of emails that allegedly showed him sharing confidential information with Epstein while serving as a British trade envoy.

Mountbatten-Windsor remains eighth in line to the British throne. Reports last week said Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government is considering introducing an Act of Parliament to remove him from the line of succession, preventing him from ever becoming king.

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