丹妮卡·基尔卡、布莱恩·梅利，伦敦报道——一名伦敦法官将于周四审理前王子安德鲁对警方搜查其住所的异议。警方正在调查他与已故性犯罪者杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的关系。
DANICA KIRKA, BRIAN MELLEY LONDON — A London judge will hold a hearing Thursday in former Prince Andrew’s challenge to searches at his residences by police investigating his links to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
法官尼古拉斯·希利尔将听取执行搜查的部门提出的请求，该部门希望限制外界获取此案相关法庭文件。此次听证会将以闭门形式开始，任何裁决都将在公开法庭上宣布。
Justice Nicholas Hilliard will hear a request from the department that carried out the searches to restrict access to court documents in the case. The hearing will begin behind closed doors, with any decision announced in open court.
泰晤士谷警方于2月19日以涉嫌公职人员不当行为为由逮捕了这位前王子（现名为安德鲁·蒙巴顿-温莎），并搜查了他的两处住所。他的律师目前正请求高等法院撤销执行这些搜查的搜查令。
Thames Valley Police officers arrested the former prince, now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, on Feb. 19, on suspicion of misconduct in public office and searched two of his homes. His lawyers are now asking the High Court to quash the warrants under which those searches were conducted.
律师马克·斯蒂芬斯表示，如果法院裁定支持蒙巴顿-温莎，可能会阻止当局在对该前王子的任何起诉中使用搜查过程中发现的证据。
If the court rules in Mountbatten-Windsor’s favor, it could prevent authorities from using evidence discovered during the searches in any prosecution of the former prince, attorney Mark Stephens said.
斯蒂芬斯来自伦敦的霍华德·肯尼迪律师事务所，他将此次听证会描述为更广泛法律斗争中的初步交锋。
Stephens, of the Howard Kennedy firm in London, described the hearing as a preliminary skirmish in the broader legal battle.
“这是安德鲁王子及其律师提出的第一步，他们主张：‘实际上，这些证据已被污染，是以不当方式取得的，’”斯蒂芬斯说，“因此，这些证据应当被排除在任何刑事审判之外。”去年，查尔斯三世国王剥夺了蒙巴顿-温莎的王子头衔，试图保护王室其他成员免受其弟弟与爱泼斯坦关系持续引发的影响。
“It’s the first step of Prince Andrew and his lawyers saying, ‘Actually, this is tainted evidence. It was obtained inappropriately,’’’ Stephens said. “Therefore it should be excluded from any criminal trial.” King Charles III stripped Mountbatten-Windsor of his princely title last year as he sought to shield the rest of the royal family from the continuing fallout from his younger brother’s links to Epstein.
尽管66岁的蒙巴顿-温莎仍继续从国王的私人基金中领取津贴，但白金汉宫已明确表示，这些资金不得用于资助他挑战搜查令的努力。
While Mountbatten-Windsor, 66, continues to receive a stipend from the king’s private funds, Buckingham Palace has made it clear that those funds may not be used to fund his effort to challenge the search warrants.
警方调查最初聚焦于有关蒙巴顿-温莎在担任英国贸易使节期间与爱泼斯坦分享敏感信息的指控，但警方后来表示，他们也可能考虑其他相关事项。
The police investigation initially focused on allegations that Mountbatten-Windsor shared sensitive information with Epstein when the former prince was a U.K. trade envoy, but police later said they could also consider other matters.
警方在调查期间对蒙巴顿-温莎进行了11小时的讯问，随后将其释放，这意味着他既未被起诉，也未被宣告无罪。
Police questioned Mountbatten-Windsor for 11 hours before releasing him under investigation, meaning he was neither charged nor exonerated.
这近四个世纪以来，英国首次有高级王室成员遭到逮捕，凸显出近年来人们对君主制的尊重已逐渐减弱。
It was the first time in nearly four centuries that a senior British royal was placed under arrest, underscoring how deference to the monarchy has eroded in recent years.
泰晤士河谷警方周一表示，调查仍在继续，并确认该部门已参与与搜查令相关的法律程序。在该程序进行期间，警方发言人拒绝进一步置评。
Thames Valley Police said Monday that its investigation was continuing and confirmed that the department was involved in legal proceedings about the search warrants. A department spokesperson declined further comment while those proceedings are underway.
针对蒙巴顿-温莎的指控是在美国司法部公布数百万页文件后浮出水面的。这些文件来自对爱泼斯坦性交易行为及其与全球富有权势男性网络关联的调查。
The allegations against Mountbatten-Windsor came to light when the U.S. Justice Department released millions of pages of documents from its investigation into sex trafficking by Epstein and his connections to a network of wealthy, powerful men around the world.
十多年来，蒙巴顿-温莎与爱泼斯坦的关系一直是王室感到尴尬的根源。
Mountbatten-Windsor’s ties to Epstein have been a source of embarrassment to the royal family for more than a decade.
早在2011年，议员们就已对这段关系提出质疑，当时这位当时的王子被迫放弃其作为英国特别贸易使节的全球巡访职务。八年后，他在接受BBC采访时未能解释自己与爱泼斯坦的持续联系，导致其作为王室在职成员的事业终结。
Lawmakers questioned the relationship as far back as 2011, when the then-prince was forced to give up his globetrotting role as the U.K.’s special trade envoy. Eight years later, he failed to explain his continuing ties to Epstein in a disastrous interview with the BBC, ending his career as a working member of the royal family.