A man shouted out at King Charles asking if e would put pressure on police to investigate his disgraced brother, Andrew Windsor.
The heckler made the outburst about the Jeffrey Epstein affair at the King and Queen during their high street walkabout in the Essex village of Dedham.
The area had images from the Epstein files thrown around the quiet village before the Royal visit.
As King Charles shook hands, one man in the crowd, shouted out within earshot: ‘Charles, Charles, have you pressurised the police to start investigating Andrew?’
Police officers approached the man afterwards and walked with him away from the barriers, with Essex Police later confirming that no arrests had been made.
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Shortly afterwards a news reporter in the crowd – who was beside a cameraman – apparently tried to ask Charles a question about his brother.
The King was then led to the far side of the road, away from the crowds, to continue the walkabout.
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Adrian Sharpe, of Dedham, was among the crowds who turned out to see the King and Queen.
The 62-year-old handyman said it was ‘nice and casual really for a village event – obviously high security’.
Asked about the heckler, he said: ‘I think it’s pointless really as what Andrew’s done is what Andrew’s done, it’s not what King Charles has done is it?
‘He’s his own person.’
He said that ‘they’ve taken the HRH off of Andrew’, adding: ‘What else can they do?
‘Surely it’s a police matter now.’
Charles and Camilla had earlier met local groups inside the Sun Inn pub and went into the kitchen where Camilla tried her hand at cutting ravioli pasta.
Towards the end of their walkabout they listened to a choir of schoolchildren in the street, before briefly going into the Essex Rose Teahouse where Charles unveiled a plaque and cut a cake.
After going back outside they spoke to more members of the public before leaving in a Bentley.
Retired health and safety consultant Russell Townsend, of Stratford St Mary, was also in the crowd.
‘We shook the Queen’s hand but the King went across the road so we only saw the back of him really,’ he said.
Asked about the situation with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the 67-year-old said: I must admit today I didn’t think of it really.
‘I kind of see it as quite a separate issue really.
‘I just think it is what it is and I can kind of separate the two.’
Mr Townsend’s daughter Phoebe, 22, said: ‘I don’t really follow that.
‘I’m just here to see the King.
‘If it was Prince Andrew maybe not, but the King’s the King.’
In October another heckler shouted ‘How long have you known about Andrew and Epstein?’ at the King outside Lichfield Cathedral.
The same man shouted out again: ‘Have you asked the police to cover up for Andrew?’
Before a woman turns around and angrily tells him to ‘shut up’.
Shortly after King Charles made the decision to formally strip his younger brother of all his titles and ostracise him from the Royal Family.
Andrew, who moved from Royal Lodge, his Windsor mansion, to the King’s Sandringham Estate on Tuesday, has previously strongly denied any wrongdoing.
