New Delhi: British political campaign group, Everyone Hates Elon, hung a picture of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest at the Louvre Museum in Paris following his arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office. The picture was taken by Reuters photographer Phil Noble outside a police station in Norfolk after Thames Valley Police picked him up from his residence on the Sandringham Estate.
The campaign group, notorious for propping banners and posters calling out public figures, claims to “take on billionaires and their politician mates.” In a post on Instagram, the group also mocked the Louvre’s security measures by captioning the picture as “another bad day for Louvre security dept”.
“We are sick of obscenely rich, powerful men thinking they can just do as they please. So when he was arrested, we wanted to show ex-prince Andrew how the world would remember,” the post read.
Andrew, or as he was previously known, Prince Andrew, is the brother of Britain’s King Charles III, and was arrested on 19 February, which was also his 66th birthday, for alleged misconduct during his tenure as the United Kingdom’s trade envoy between 2001 and 2011.
But Andrew’s trade envoy role is not the only part of the former prince’s activities that are under scrutiny. His links with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are also under the scanner following the recent release of the Epstein files by the United States Department of Justice. Following the release of the files, allegations have risen that Andrew shared confidential information with the disgraced financier.
In October 2025, King Charles stripped him of all his titles and privileges as public outrage intensified; however, Andrew remains eighth in the line of succession. But following Thursday’s arrest, the British public is now calling for a revocation of his claim to the crown as well.
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Andrew and Epstein
As per documents released by the DOJ, mail correspondence between the two indicated that “Epstein invited Mountbatten-Windsor to have dinner with a 26-year-old Russian woman,” the BBC reported.
Photos of Andrew bending over a woman on all fours have been circulating on the internet for a while. The series of photos shows Andrew crowding and touching the fully-clothed woman’s stomach; however, the photos are only the latest addition to a long-standing scandal threatening the British monarchy. In 2006, Andrew invited Epstein to a celebration at Windsor Castle for his daughter Princess Beatrice’s 18th birthday.
The two were also photographed together on several occasions, only fuelling public anger.
In 2021, Virginia Giuffre said she had been trafficked by Epstein and filed a civil suit in the US alleging sexual abuse by Andrew when she was a minor. Andrew denied the claims. The case was settled out of court, where Andrew allegedly paid an undisclosed sum to a charity of Giuffre’s choosing. Giuffre committed suicide in April 2025.
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Everyone Hates Elon
The campaign group, which was formed last year, also targeted Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos during his wedding celebrations in Venice. The group displayed a large banner in St. Mark’s Square, which read, “If you can rent Venice for your wedding, you can pay more tax.”
During the Davos conference in Switzerland earlier this year, the group put a similar banner on the field near the Zurich airport, which said, “Hey Davos Billionaires: Shut up and pay your tax,” with pictures of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Bezos laughing.
One user responded to the group’s post on Andrew, saying, “Virginia Guiffre’s book Nobody’s Girl starts in the Louvre. I think she would have loved this.”
Some mocked the museum’s security measures, which have been under intense public scrutiny following a successful jewellery heist last year where an estimated 88 million euros ($102 million) were stolen. While others advocated that all those named in the Epstein files should be arrested.
One user wrote, “All art is political, but I’m especially into this kind of art.”
(Edited by Insha Jalil Waziri)