# Ex-Prince Andrew called to testify in civil case, 1st royal in 156 years to get witness summons

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/ex-prince-andrew-called-to-testify-in-civil-case-1st-royal-in-156-years-to-get-witness-summons/
- Published: 2026-11-04T22:44:38+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-05T02:36:45+00:00
- Original publisher: PBS NewsHour (publisher lean: Centre)
- Original article: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/ex-prince-andrew-called-to-testify-in-civil-case-1st-royal-in-156-years-to-get-witness-summons
- Topics: Politics, UK, World

## Key points

- Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been summoned in a civil fraud case.
- The disputed payment was £750,000, later repaid.
- He may challenge the summons and need not testify.

## Summary

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has received a witness summons to testify in a London civil fraud trial, which would make him the first member of the royal family in more than 150 years to face one. He can ask the court to set the summons aside, so it is not certain he will give evidence.

The case was brought by Nebahat Evyap Isbilen, who alleges her former adviser Selman Turk misappropriated tens of millions of pounds. She says Turk misled her over a £750,000 payment made to Mountbatten-Windsor in 2019; he repaid it in 2021 and is not a party to the lawsuit. Turk says the payment was authorised in the hope Mountbatten-Windsor could help Isbilen’s husband, imprisoned in Turkey since 2015. The previous reported royal witness summons was issued in 1870 to the then Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII.

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