Met Police to look into claims Andrew sought information on accuser
Prince Andrew reportedly tried to obtain personal information about his accuser Virginia Giuffre through his police protection, according to the Metropolitan Police, who is actively
looking into media reports that it is investigating into media claims that it was active
looking
the force said on Sunday. Ms Giuffre, who took her own life earlier this year, said she was one of the girls and young women sexually assaulted by convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein and his wealthy circle. Prince Andrew has not commented on the reports, but he denies any charges against him. Buckingham Palace has been contacted for comment.We are aware of media coverage and are diligently investigating the allegations made,
Ms Giuffre has also admitted that she was forced to have sex with Andrew on three occasions, including when she was 17 at the home of his colleague Ghislaine Maxwell in London in 2001. Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking charges involving Epstein, her ex boyfriend. Andrew ordered his police protection officer to prosecute her right before the newspaper published a snapshot of Ms Giuffre's first meeting with the prince in February 2011. According to the journal, the officer was given her date of birth and her confidential social security number. Andrew sought to dig up dirt
on Ms Giuffre, according to the Sunday Telegraph. Ed Miliband, the British Energy Secretary, called it deeply troubling
on BBC One's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, who added that "it's certainly not the way that close protection officers should be used.
Andrew Andrew declared on Friday that he was voluntarily giving up his titles and reneging his membership in the Order of the Garter, Britain's oldest and most senior order of chivalry. He will no longer be Duke of York, a title inherited from his mother, late Queen Elizabeth II. The prince had already been a working royal
and had lost the use of his HRH name, and he no longer appeared at formal royal functions. His job now will be even more limited.
Emily Maitlis, who filmed the now-famous BBC Newsnight interview with the prince in 2019, said the change had been a long time coming
and that six years has been a long way to wait for this.
During a visit to Epstein in 2010, the prince said he had broken all ties with Epstein,
quite sickduring a tour to his New York home. Maitlis said she felt
spend four days - four nightswhen emails revealed that had been sent in February 2011 from the prince to Epstein, suggesting that their friendship had not ended, according to LauraKuenssberg. She had questioned Andrew on her decision to
too honourable.in a convicted paedophile's home to break their family's marriage, to which she had argued he had a tendency to be
Be careful, and we'll be back in touch shortly,the prince wrote in February 2011.
He had stayed in touch with him,says the author.
Maitlis said.The tenor of it, not just that we're in this together, but that signing off 'let's play some more soon,' does not mean that he's ever broken off with Epstein,
the journalist said.You're left really questioning, whether the conversation ever existed, and how much more there is in the interview than we should now go back and ask,
Andrew has had a string of scandals in recent years, including an out-of-court deal with Ms Giuffre in 2022 after she had brought a civil lawsuit against him. Ms Giuffre's book, which is set to be published next week, is expected to bring more light on the prince's relations with her and Epstein. Ms Giuffre's brother Sky Roberts told BBC Newsnight that his sister had been very proud
of Prince Andrew's latest advancements, but that the King should go one step further and remove the prince's name.
he said.I think anybody that was implicated. These survivors should have some degree of responsibility and accountability,
