- Pressure mounting on Prince Andrew following the unsealing of Epstein papers
King Charles is making ready to cease paying for Prince Andrew’s dwelling safety at Royal Lodge, it has been reported.
Pressure is mounting on the Duke of York because the unsealing of a whole lot of pages of court docket paperwork linked to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal continues apace.
The newest tranche of papers, which have heaped contemporary embarrassment on Andrew, declare the royal loved each day massages and stayed within the ‘blue room’ at Epstein’s Palm Beach lair.
Ghislaine Maxwell additionally claimed there was a Prince Andrew ‘puppet’ at Epstein’s New York property after the royal was accused of utilizing it to grope a younger girl.
The duke, who has constantly denied any wrongdoing, has additionally been accused participating in an ‘underage orgy’.
In a contemporary blow to Andrew, The Telegraph has reported that he should fund the multi-million pound safety prices at Royal Lodge himself if he desires to remain within the 30-room mansion in Windsor Great Park.
King Charles is making ready to cease paying for Prince Andrew’s dwelling safety at Windsor Royal Lodge, it has been claimed. Pictured: The royal brothers pictured at their mom’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012
Pressure is mounting on Andrew as authorized papers associated linked to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal continues apace. Pictured: Epstein and intercourse trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell
The duke should fund the multi-million pound safety prices at Royal Lodge himself if he desires to remain
The transfer might be seen because the monarch distancing himself publicly from his youthful brother, who lower than two weeks in the past walked to church with the royal household on Christmas Day.
Buckingham Palace stated it doesn’t touch upon safety issues.
Labour chief Sir Keir Starmer, the previous director of public prosecutions, yesterday backed requires Scotland Yard to launch an investigation into the claims made about Andrew.
New revelations from the unredacted authorized papers present how Epstein’s former housekeeper claimed Andrew had each day massages when he allegedly spent ‘weeks’ on the paedophile financier’s Florida dwelling.
Juan Alessi, who labored at Epstein’s Palm Beach residence, stated each Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah, Duchess of York, have been pals with Epstein and the now convicted sex-trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
It comes after a supply informed the Mirror that Charles has informed his brother he ‘will not be deserted’.
‘Charles promised his late mom he wouldn’t abandon Andrew as soon as she was gone and that is still the state of affairs, except after all he finds himself engaged in a legal matter,’ they stated.
The duke greeted well-wishers exterior church in Sandringham, Norfolk on December 25, with Sarah again within the royal fold and at his aspect. But he was caught demanding to know why followers who had stood within the chilly to see the Royal Family ‘have their cameras on’.
But because the New Year started, earlier allegations Andrew sexually assaulted Virginia Giuffre 3 times when she was 17 together with throughout an orgy resurfaced in newly-published court docket paperwork.
He strenuously denies the claims, and in 2022 paid tens of millions to Ms Giuffre to settle a civil case out of court docket, saying he by no means met her.
Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein are seen strolling in Central Park on December 5, 2010
Prince Andrew, Virginia Roberts (now Giuffre) and Ghislaine Maxwell are pictured in 2001 at Maxwell’s London townhouse
Prince Andrew (pictured with ex-wife Sarah Ferguson) has at all times denied all accusations of sexual exercise with Epstein’s accusers, and denied wrongdoing
Juan Alessi, who labored for Jeffrey Epstein as a housekeeper from 1991 till 2002, and testified throughout Maxwell’s trial in 2021
The Metropolitan Police stated no new investigation has been launched, however Mr Starmer stated the place ‘credible’ accusations are made they need to be investigated.
Sir Keir stated: ‘I feel wherever there is a grievance made it is inevitable that it ought to be checked out.
‘I imply, now we have to start out with the victims right here and take a look at what allegations have been made. I’ve seen the headlines on this, not the element… however frankly whoever it’s, the place there are allegations, credible allegations made, then after all they need to be checked out.’
Republic – the anti-monarchist group – reported the duke to Scotland Yard and is asking for the accusations to be correctly investigated within the UK.
During his video-taped interview underneath oath in 2009, Mr Alessi was questioned on the duke’s relationship with Maxwell and Epstein.
Lawyer Katherine Ezell requested whether or not Andrew and Sarah ever had massages on the Florida dwelling.
Mr Alessi replied: ‘Prince Andrew did.
‘I feel Sarah was there solely as soon as and for a short while. I do not suppose she slept in there. I can’t keep in mind.
‘I feel she was visiting Wellington and he or she got here to the home and we met her.
‘But Prince Andrew, sure, Prince Andrew spent weeks with us.’
Ms Ezell then requested: ‘Where would he sleep?’
Mr Alessi stated: ‘In the primary room, the primary visitor bed room. That was the blue room.’
The lawyer then stated: ‘And, so, when he would come and keep, throughout that point would he ceaselessly have massages?
Mr Alessi replied: ‘I might say, each day massages.’
Paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein’s former dwelling in Palm Beach, Florida, the place it’s claimed Prince Andrew would obtain ‘each day massages’ on weeks-long visits
A room inside Jeffrey Epstein’s dwelling in Palm Beach, Florida, which Andrew is alleged to have visited a number of instances
The master suite inside Jeffrey Epstein’s dwelling in Palm Beach – considered one of a variety of images launched by the FBI
Asked if it was typically multiple a day, Mr Alessi stated: ‘I can not keep in mind if he had multiple, however I feel it was only a therapeutic massage for him. We arrange the tables and…’
Ms Ezell interjected: ‘Do you have got any recollection of (Virginia Giuffre) coming to the home when Prince Andrew was there?’
Mr Alessi replied: ‘It may have been, however I’m undecided.’
In an additional interview underneath oath by an Epstein worker, who’s labelled solely as ‘the witness’ within the paperwork, they claimed Maxwell took the paedophile financier to England ‘to introduce him to royalty’.
The workers member stated there have been ‘many footage’ of the duke with Epstein within the property they labored at.
They additionally stated they by no means noticed the duke go to the property, however ‘he referred to as’.
In a resurfaced video-taped interview with Maxwell, the disgraced socialite stated she didn’t understand how Epstein met the duke and he or she insisted she didn’t introduce them.
Excerpts of Juan Alessi’s deposition, which was given underneath oath in 2009 and has been launched within the newest tranche of paperwork linked to Jeffrey Epstein
Maxwell admitted, nevertheless, that there was a Duke of York puppet in Epstein’s New York house.
Andrew was accused by Johanna Sjoberg of groping her breast whereas posing with what’s reported to have been a Spitting Image puppet of himself in Epstein’s Manhattan dwelling in 2001.
Maxwell stated she didn’t recollect placing the hand of the caricature on Ms Sjoberg’s breast.
‘There was a puppet – not a puppet – there was a – I do not understand how would you describe it actually… a caricature of Prince Andrew that was in Jeffrey’s dwelling,’ she stated.
A US choose ordered a whole lot of paperwork to be unsealed as a part of Ms Giuffre’s beforehand settled civil declare towards Maxwell, which was filed in 2015.
Epstein was discovered useless in his cell at a federal jail in New York, in August 2019 whereas he awaited trial on sex-trafficking fees. The demise was dominated a suicide.
It was beforehand reported the duke was provided the a lot smaller Frogmore Cottage, which was dwelling to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, in a bid to relocate him from Royal Lodge.
But the duke was stated to have signed a 75-year lease on the mansion in 2003.
The home was demolished in April 2021 after Epstein’s demise (pictured: the demolition in progress)
An exterior shot of Epstein’s dwelling at Palm Beach, which Andrew is alleged to have visited a variety of instances, receiving ‘each day’ massages
Andrew stepped down from public life after the furore over his friendship with Epstein, and paid tens of millions to settle a civil sexual assault case with Ms Giuffre, a lady he claimed by no means to have met.
He was solid out of the working monarchy and not makes use of his HRH fashion after Ms Giuffre, who was trafficked by Epstein, accused him of sexually assaulting her when she was 17. The duke strenuously denies any wrongdoing.
Meanwhile, the Royal household is claimed to be break up over whether or not Andrew ought to be solid out for good.
Christmas Day noticed Andrew be part of the household for the annual festive church service on the Sandringham Estate – a present of unity that baffled many, provided that the discharge of recent Epstein papers was imminent.
The paperwork final night time additionally revealed how Maxwell, the disgraced socialite claimed she ‘by no means launched Prince Andrew to Jeffrey Epstein’.
The deposition, from 2016, confirmed Maxwell describe Ms Giuffre’s alleged conferences with the duke as a ’tissue of lies’.
In an trade with Ms Giuffre’s lawyer Sigrid McCawley, Maxwell was requested: ‘Did you introduce him to Jeffrey?’
Maxwell responded: ‘That could be one other of Virginia’s lies and the lies you perpetrate.
‘I by no means launched Prince Andrew to Jeffrey Epstein at any time ever, so simply add that the (sic) to lengthy checklist of lies.’
Ms McCawley continued: ‘Did Jeffrey know Prince Andrew?’
Maxwell replied: ‘Clearly he knew him.’
Pressed on whether or not she knew how Andrew met Epstein, Maxwell stated: ‘I have no idea (sic) Jeffrey met Prince Andrew.
‘What I do know is that I didn’t introduce them.
‘That is among the many lies. Are we tallying all of the lies?’
Maxwell has been imprisoned since July 2020 regardless of makes an attempt by her defence counsel to have her launched on bail.
She was sentenced to twenty years in jail on the federal court docket within the Southern District of New York in June 2022.