A second woman says Jeffrey Epstein sent her to the United Kingdom to have sex with Prince Andrew, according to her lawyer’s statement to the BBC.
Brad Edwards of the US law firm Edwards Henderson said the alleged incident took place in 2010 at Royal Lodge, which was Prince Andrew’s residence at the time.
The woman, who is not British and was around 20 years old then, says she spent the night at Royal Lodge. She later joined a tour of Buckingham Palace, where she says staff offered her tea. “We are talking about at least one woman who was sent by Jeffrey Epstein to Prince Andrew,” Edwards said. “After a night with Prince Andrew, she also had a tour of Buckingham Palace.”
The BBC said it has sought comment from Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor but has not received a response. Buckingham Palace usually keeps records of visitors who take part in tours, but it has not been possible to verify this visit without revealing the woman’s identity.
This is the first time an Epstein survivor has claimed that sexual contact took place inside a royal residence. Edwards represents more than 200 victims of Jeffrey Epstein worldwide and previously represented Virginia Giuffre. Giuffre alleged that Epstein sent her to London in 2001, when she was 17, to have sex with the former prince.
Giuffre also said Epstein forced her to have sex with Andrew on two other occasions in 2001–2002, once in New York and once on Epstein’s private Caribbean island. Epstein was convicted in Florida in 2008 of soliciting a minor for prostitution and completed his sentence in July 2010.
Edwards told the BBC that his client had contact with the former prince before the alleged incident at Royal Lodge. He said he had also been in touch with “some legal advisers” representing Andrew in the United States and added that the former prince “appears to have disengaged from his lawyers”.
According to Edwards, communication stopped after King Charles decided to strip Andrew of his “style, titles and honours”. Andrew lost his royal titles in October last year following the publication of Giuffre’s memoirs. The Palace also announced that he would leave Royal Lodge on the Windsor estate, where he had lived since 2004. The statement said the sanctions were necessary despite his continued denial of the allegations.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has consistently denied all accusations made against him.
