What happened to Andrea of ​​York?

It will be a difficult Christmas for Andrew of York. After being swept away by the Epstein scandal e “Dismissed” from royal duties, Now risks sinking permanently. Nailed by two lies unmasked by an investigation by Daily Mail. Lies dating back to November 2019, when the queen’s third child Elizabeth II, with the famous (and disastrous) interview with the BBC, he tried to justify his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein (the American billionaire accused of pedophilia and apparently committed suicide in prison last year) and claimed never having had sex with Virginia Roberts. The woman who claims to have had sex with Andrea, when he was just seventeen, three times.

One of the embraces, as reported by Virginia, took place in London on the afternoon of March 10, 2001. Roberts has brought as proof a photograph of her with Andrea on the second floor of the London home of Ghislane Maxwell, the “black lady,” now under house arrest in the United States, who allegedly provided the then-boyfriend Epstein with girls to satisfy his sexual appetites.

Andrea, in spite of that photo that portrays him together with his accuser, claims to have never met Virginia. And in the BBC interview he waved his alibi for March 10, 2001: he was with his daughters Eugenie and Beatrice that day. “I stayed home with the girls», Emily Maitlis told the reporter. “Then around four or five in the afternoon, I accompanied Beatrice to a birthday party at the Pizza Express in Woking. The Duchess (Sarah Ferguson, then his wife, ed) was out of town and we had a very simple rule in the family: if one of us couldn’t take care of the daughters, the other would take care of it ». The journalist pressed him: “How does he, after so many years, remember that on March 10, 2001 he stayed at home with his daughters? How do you remember that birthday party?“. Andrea’s response: «Because going to the Pizza Express in Woking is not usual for me. I’ve only been there twice. And I remember them ».

But now the Daily Mail, reconstructing the movements of the prince, he discovered that his alibi doesn’t hold up. Managing to consult also the agenda of the Duke who, for that afternoon, marks an appointment with the manicurist. Therefore where was Andrea? In the pizzeria it seems not: none of the people who attended that party remember him. Not even the princess Beatrice, 12 years old at the time, remembers that her father accompanied her to the party. And he did not remember that birthday party even the bodyguard (now dead) who at the time followed the prince everywhere. In short, Andrea’s alibi creaks at the very least.

Not only that: the Daily Mail dismantled another of his lies. Virginia Roberts argues that the second sexual encounter with the prince took place in New York, at Epstein’s house, before Easter 2001. Andrea, in an interview with the BBC, assured that in 2001 he did not “Never slept” in Epstein’s New York home. The Daily Mail, reconstructing the movements of the Duke of York through “official letters, itineraries and flights”, however, he discovered that Andrea spent three days in the United States before Easter 2001. The first of those days he slept at the British consulate in New York, the second went to Boston, the third returned to the city and stopped at “a private address”. And that is at the home of his friend Epstein. As if that weren’t enough, a Scotland Yard agent who was with Andrea at the time stated that the prince, after leaving New York, together with Epstein and Virginia Roberts had left for the American billionaire’s villa in the Virgin Islands.

Prince refuses to cooperate with justice and therefore his version of events is not known so far. But it seems that the circle around him is tightening. It won’t be a nice Christmas for the Duke of York. And it will not be a nice Christmas even for Queen Elizabeth, who, until now, had always forgiven her favorite son everything.