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Last fall, during his disastrous interview with BBC Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis, Prince Andrew denied having ever met Virginia Roberts Giuffre, a woman who claims that she had sex with the Queen’s son on several occasions, including once when she was 17 and being trafficked by Epstein. (Prince Andrew has also more specifically denied her accusations of sexual misconduct on multiple occasions.)
Prince Andrew’s alibi for one of those alleged incidents? The Duke of York says he was at home, after attending a children’s party at Pizza Express.
During their sit-down in Buckingham Palace, Maitlis asked Prince Andrew if he was “absolutely sure” that he had been at home on the evening of March 10, 2001. He replied “Yeah.”
“I was at home, I was with the children and I’d taken Beatrice [then aged 12] to a Pizza Express in Woking for a party at I suppose four or five in the afternoon,” he said. “And then because the Duchess was away, we have a simple rule in the family that when one is away the other one is there.”
Watch the full interview here:
Now, that alibi is coming under question by a former royal protection officer.
In a new interview with the Mail on Sunday, the officer, who, per the publication, “had an ‘exemplary’ 23-year career in the Metropolitan Police,” but has chosen to remain anonymous, recalls Prince Andrew possibly being at Buckingham Palace early in the morning on March 11, implying that he could not be at his own home. The officer also alleges that the royal yelled at the guards on duty.
“To be 100 per cent certain I would like access to my duty roster for that month. I believe I have a right to know my own shift patterns,” he said.
According to the publication, he “intends to use data protection and freedom of information laws to access his own shift roster and other documents to confirm whether his account is correct.”
The Metropolitan Police have not said whether they’ll release official logs regarding the Duke of York’s whereabouts on the evening of March 10 or early in the morning on March 11, and per the Mail, the royal’s spokesperson declined to comment on the former officer’s statement, as did several of his former bodyguards.
The Metropolitan Police issued the following statement to the publication: “We are not prepared to discuss records that we may or may not hold regarding matters of protection.”
On Twitter, Giuffre responded to the Mail on Sunday story with a tweet of her own. She wrote: “We’re all waiting Andy- when are you going to tell the truth?? Everyone already knows your guilty as sin, you might as well admit it. “
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