The activists from the anti-billionaire collective Everyone Hates Elon arrived at the Paris museum with a copy of the arrest photo of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, and stuck it on the wall in one of the galleries. They posted a video about the stunt on Sunday.
They say "hang it in the Louvre". So we did #princeandrew
— Everyone Hates Elon (@everyonehateselon.bsky.social) February 22, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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The former Prince Andrew was arrested in the UK last week on suspicion of misconduct in a public office, after information emerged in the latest release of Epstein files. Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre testified that she was trafficked to then Prince Andrew in 2001, when she was a teenager.
Andrew denies any wrongdoing and his recent arrest was linked to the alleged passing of confidential government documents to Epstein and his associates. Virginia Giuffre took her own life in 2025.
A photo of Andrew taken by Reuters photographer Phil Noble just after his arrest has gone viral.
The activists hung it in the Louvre, with a caption saying 'He's sweating now' - a reference to an infamous TV interview that Andrew gave in 2019 in which he claimed that he had lost the ability to sweat while serving in the British army.
The Everybody Hates Elon stunt was a play on the internet catchphrase 'hang it in the Louvre', used for any image that is particularly iconic, newsworthy or funny - although if we're being pedantic, the Louvre is for works created prior to the 1840s, new creations would more properly be hung in one of the Paris galleries dedicated to contemporary art such as the Pompidou Centre or the Fondation Louis Vuitton.
French media reported that Louvre staff rapidly removed the new artwork from the wall.
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