Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's former flame, Lady Victoria Hervey, 49, has taken to Instagram to make a bizarre comment on the Iran conflict. The socialite, who dated the disgraced royal in the late 1990s, shared a video of herself dancing at an event and captioned it with a strange remark about the Jeffrey Epstein files and the Iran war. In the clip, she's head-to-toe in beige, wearing a ballgown and a matching coloured trench coat, as she dances for the person filming her at a party.

Attached to the dancing video was a caption that read: "Finally, a break from the Epstein files." It continued: "What’s important to realise is that this is a peace operation, it’s not a war against Iran, it’s a war for the independence of the Iranian people from the evil Islamic regime. For the last 47 years, they have had ayatollahs like Ali Khameni, Islamic extremist jihadis governing and killing innocent Iranian people.

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"Every time they would rise up, they got killed, so now they can finally have their revolution. This will ultimately lead to the world becoming a more stable place. Prayers to all affected. #IRAN. Two dictators gone 2026: Venezuela. Iran."

Comments were disabled on the controversial post shared with her 500,000 followers, which came days after the war broke out on Saturday between Iran, the US, and Israel.

Announcing the strikes, US President Donald Trump said he wanted to remove a "threat" from the Iranian government.

Iran retaliated with ongoing strikes on Israel and neighbouring nations such as the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Trump said the attack was to prevent Iran from making nuclear weapons - something Iran has denied it's doing.

On Sunday, Prime Minister Keir Starmer agreed to Trump's request to use British military bases before telling MPs he "does not believe in regime change from the skies".

Starmer told Parliament: "President Trump has expressed his disagreement with our decision not to get involved in the initial strikes, but it is my duty to judge what is in Britain's national interest."

Trump has since criticised Starmer over the initial refusal to permit the use of UK bases and told reporters on Monday the UK leader is "no Winston Churchill".