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Another woman has alleged that Jeffrey Epstein sent her to the UK for a sexual encounter with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, further dragging the former prince’s ties to the late sex offender into the spotlight.
Florida-based lawyer Brad Edwards, who has represented more than 200 Epstein survivors including Virginia Giuffre, told the BBC that a second woman claims she was sent to Andrew’s then-residence, Royal Lodge in Windsor, in 2010 and spent the night there.
The woman, who is not British and was in her twenties at the time, alleges that after the night at Royal Lodge she was taken for tea and a tour of Buckingham Palace.
Edwards told the broadcaster: “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 BBC reports that while Buckingham Palace records the names of tour guests, it has not been able to verify whether the woman visited the palace without revealing her identity.
According to Edwards, this is the first time an Epstein survivor has alleged that a sexual encounter with Andrew took place at a royal residence. The lawyer said he is considering filing a civil lawsuit on the woman’s behalf against the former prince.
The claims surfaced after the US justice department released a large tranche of previously sealed material related to Epstein, including emails and images.
Among them are photos that appear to show Andrew barefoot, crouching on all fours over an unidentified woman lying on the floor, with her face obscured in the redacted images.
Andrew, now 65 and using the family name Mountbatten-Windsor after being stripped of his prince title by King Charles, has denied any wrongdoing in connection with Epstein.
He previously avoided trial in a civil case brought by Virginia Giuffre by agreeing to a multimillion-dollar settlement in 2022.
Giuffre alleged she was trafficked by Epstein and forced to have sex with Andrew when she was 17, including in London, New York and on Epstein’s private island, claims he has consistently denied.
She died by suicide in Western Australia in April last year at the age of 41.
The newly released US documents indicate that Andrew remained in regular contact with Epstein for more than two years after Epstein was convicted in 2008 of soliciting paid sex from a minor.
Emails in the cache show Epstein and Andrew discussing potential business opportunities, social meetings and women Epstein proposed to introduce to the former prince, including one email offering to bring three women to Buckingham Palace.
Epstein died by suicide in a Manhattan jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
The latest document dump runs to millions of pages and includes thousands of images and videos, many of them heavily redacted.
British prime minister Keir Starmer has said Andrew “should be prepared” to give evidence about his links with Epstein, including before a US congressional committee if requested.
“Anybody who has got information should be prepared to share that information in whatever form they are asked to do that, because you can’t be victim-centred if you’re not prepared to do that,” Starmer told reporters.
Members of a US congressional panel investigating Epstein have previously written to Andrew asking him to submit to questioning as part of their probe.
Prince Andrew and Buckingham Palace are yet to comment on this new allegation.
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