Man pleads not guilty to threatening Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

A man has denied threatening Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor during an alleged incident near his home on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk.

Alex Jenkinson, 39, of no fixed address, is charged with two counts of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour to harass someone or cause alarm or distress.

One relates to an alleged incident on Wednesday in Kings Lynn, Norfolk, where the defendant is accused of threatening the former Duke of York. Jenkinson is also accused of threatening another man, Stephen Terry, the day before. He denies both charges.

Mountbatten-Windsor is expected to give evidence during the trial fixed for 29 July at Westminster Magistrates' Court.

Jenkinson, who appeared in court via video link from King's Lynn Police Investigation Centre in Norfolk with his right arm in a sling, did plead guilty to failing to provide a specimen of blood in custody.

He was released on conditional bail.

He was ordered not to enter the county of Norfolk, not to contact directly or indirectly Mountbatten-Windsor, not to approach or attempt to approach him, and not to go to or be within 500m of the following royal estates: Sandringham Estate, Buckingham Palace, Balmoral Castle, Windsor Castle and Highgrove.

Prosecutor Josephine Jones told the court on Friday there "certainly is a suggestion" Jenkinson had an interest in Mountbatten-Windsor, who is the brother of King Charles III.

The prosecution on Friday asked the court for a remote link for Mountbatten-Windsor to give evidence from King Lynn Magistrates' court. The chief magistrate granted the request but said it may be better for Mountbatten-Windsor to give evidence from a location that was not a court.

Norfolk Police earlier said a man was arrested on Wednesday after officers received a report of a man behaving in an intimidating manner in Wolferton.

The incident was near Marsh Farm, the property on the Sandringham Estate that Mountbatten-Windsor moved to after leaving Royal Lodge in Windsor due to his association with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

He was also stripped by the King of his right to be a prince and his dukedom late last year over his links to Epstein.

Mountbatten-Windsor has always denied any wrongdoing.