A second woman is alleging that she was sent to the United Kingdom by the late sex convict Jeffrey Epstein for a sexual encounter with former Duke of York Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
After the US Justice Department released the new set of
Epstein Files, a second woman is alleging that she was sent to the United Kingdom by the late sex convict Jeffrey Epstein for a sexual encounter with former Duke of York
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. The revelation was made by the victim’s lawyer, BBC reported.
The lawyer told the British news outlet that the encounter allegedly occurred at the former prince’s residence, Royal Lodge, in 2010. The woman was not British, and at that time she was in her 20s. The woman’s lawyer, Brad Edwards, is from the US firm Edwards Henderson. He noted that after spending the night with Andrew, she was also given a tour of Buckingham Palace and was invited for tea.
“We’re talking about at least one woman who was sent by Jeffrey Epstein over to Prince Andrew. And she even had, after a night with Prince Andrew, a tour of Buckingham Palace,” the lawyer said. Neither Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor nor his team commented on the allegations as of now.
Interestingly, the
Buckingham Palace routinely records the names of tour guests; however, neither the BBC nor any other news outlets have assessed the records as of now.
Why the revelation matters
What makes the latest allegation significant is the fact that the women’s account of spending the night at Andrew’s home is the first time an Epstein survivor has alleged a sexual encounter occurred at a royal residence. It is pertinent to note that Edwards represents more than 200 Epstein survivors worldwide, and also represented
Virginia Giuffre, who alleged that she was brought to London to have sex with the former prince in 2001 when she was 17.
In the past, Giuffre said that she was forced to have sex with the former British royal twice between 2001 and 2002. One of these encounters took place in New York and once occurred on Epstein’s private Caribbean island. Epstein was convicted in 2008 of soliciting sex from a 14-year-old girl in Florida and completed his sentence for the same in July 2010.
The lawyer, who is based in Florida, told the BBC that there were communications between his client and the former prince before the encounter, where she says she spent the night with him. Edwards noted that he had been in contact with “certain legal counsel” of the former prince in the United States, but said Andrew had “seemingly been disconnected from his lawyers”.
He recalled how communication stopped after
King Charles III formally removed Andrew’s “style, title and honours”, in October last year. It was also announced that he would leave Royal Lodge on the Windsor estate, which had been his home since 2004.
Edwards pointed out that stripping Andrew of his titles has allowed the former duke of York to maintain that he has no money and no ability to provide compensation, and to “allow these women to just suffer”.
“So the idea that the Royal Family so far cares about the victims, wanted to make things right, what they have done by simply stripping Prince Andrew of his titles and nothing more, has had the exact opposite effect of what they claim they are trying to do,” he told the BBC. The American lawyer revealed that he is now considering filing a civil lawsuit on the woman’s behalf against the former prince.
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