From Downing Street to the Royal Family, How the Epstein Files Broke Britain

Britain’s government found itself at the centre of a potentially fatal political storm this week, following the latest release of files connected to U.S. investigations into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Disclosures from the Epstein investigation have already rocked one British institution—the country’s monarchy—with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, stripped of his royal title late last year. The younger brother of King Charles III, he now faces...