LONDON

Activists have hung a photo in the Louvre Museum in Paris of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly the Duke of York, leaving police custody after his arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office, according to media reports Monday.

The British political campaign group Everyone Hates Elon fixed the photo, which shows the former prince slouched in the back seat of a Range Rover, on a wall of the Paris gallery on Sunday.

Affixed to the wall under the frame is a card that reads: “He’s Sweating Now” with 2026 mentioned below it, The Guardian reported.

Mountbatten-Windsor, 66, was arrested on Thursday at the Sandringham estate. He was released 11 hours later while remaining under investigation.

Last week, it was reported that the British government was considering introducing legislation to remove former Prince Andrew from the line of royal succession amid an uproar following his arrest in the wake of new revelations about the late convicted US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

UK politicians raised an outcry over Andrew after his arrest following recent revelations in a US release of documents related to Epstein, who was found dead by suicide in a New York City jail in 2019 while he was awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges involving underage girls.

A YouGov poll published Friday suggested that 82% of British citizens now believe Mountbatten‑Windsor should be removed from the royal line of succession entirely versus just 6% who said he should remain.

The former prince has denied any wrongdoing related to Epstein.

On Feb. 9, after a large release of US files on Epstein the previous month, police said they were assessing reports of alleged misconduct "in line with our established procedures."

The younger brother of King Charles served as the UK’s trade envoy from 2001 to 2011. He withdrew from royal duties in 2019 after his connection to Epstein became public.

According to the January file release, on Oct. 7, 2010, Andrew sent Epstein details of his official upcoming trips as trade envoy to Singapore, Vietnam, Shenzhen in China and Hong Kong.

On Nov. 30, he appeared to have forwarded official reports of those trips – sent by his then-special assistant – to Epstein just after receiving them.