Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was confronted by an armed man wearing a balaclava while walking his dogs near his English countryside home.
The unidentified masked aggressor shouted at the former Duke of York as he approached him from roughly 50 yards away, according to the Telegraph.
Mountbatten-Windsor and a bodyguard reportedly got into a vehicle and sped away.
Authorities arrested the perpetrator and held him for questioning. They said that he was behaving in an intimidating fashion and armed with an unspecified “offensive weapon” around 7:30 p.m. The nature of his comments wasn’t reported.
Mountbatten-Windsor moved 100 miles north of London to the Sandringham Estate following his eviction from Windsor Castle over his ties to sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.
He was arrested on Feb. 19 — his 66th birthday — for suspicion of misconduct in public office. Mountbatten-Windsor allegedly shared privileged trade information with Epstein in 2010 while serving as a U,K. trade envoy.
The 66-year-old aristocrat surrendered his royal titles in October in anticipation of a damning memoir posthumously released by Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre.
She accused Epstein of trafficking her to powerful men including the former royal when she 17 years old, according to an excerpt from “Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice,” published by The Guardian.
Mountbatten-Windsor, who was 41 at the time of the alleged abuse, denied any criminal activity involving Giuffre. The pair reached a civil settlement in 2022 for an undisclosed amount. Giuffre died by suicide in April 2025.