A new revelation claims the former Duke of York attempted to uncover information about Virginia Giuffre, Prince Andrew’s accuser, after he announced he was giving up his royal titles.
Emily Maitlis claims that Prince Andrew’s email news is sick to her.
A recently published bombshell email allegedly suggests that the disgraced ex-duke attempted to smear his accuser, Virginia Giuffre, is one of the disturbing new allegations that the Metropolitan Police is now looking into.
The former Duke of York has consistently and vehemently refuted allegations that he had sex with Virginia Epstein, the accuser of Jeffrey Epstein’s death, when she was 17 years old. However, his relationship with the convicted paedophile Epstein has remained largely unaffected by his position within the Royal Family.
The 65-year-old retired from performing public duties five years ago. With permission from King Charles III, his older brother, he has now voluntarily given up using his titles and honors. Andrew made the revelation in a statement released by Buckingham Palace on Friday evening that he would no longer use his “title or the honors which have been given to me” and that he would choose to place “my duty to my family and the country first.”
However, more alleged behavior revelations have surfaced in recent days, making it difficult for The Firm to put the so-called “Andrew problem” to rest.
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According to The Mail on Sunday, Andrew allegedly requested Virginia’s private information from his taxpayer-funded Met bodyguard, even providing her birthdate and private social security number in an ostensible effort to uncover dirt. It is not possible that the officer followed this request.
Andrew sent an email to Ed Perkins, then press secretary to his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, just before the Mail published the now-infamous snap of him craning his arm around Virginia at Ghislaine Maxwell’s Belgravia mews house, according to the MoS.
According to Andrew, who allegedly told Perkins in this email, “It would also seem that she has a criminal record in the [United] States. For the purposes of her investigation with XXX, the on-duty ppo]personal protection officer], I have given her [date of birth] and social security number.
Late last night, a Met spokesperson claimed that they were “actively looking into the claims made.” Virginia’s relatives, who have confirmed that she didn’t have a criminal record, have also stated that these new allegations “expose the lengths that those implicated attempt to discredit and defame survivors.” The family is now requesting an investigation into how Andrew allegedly obtained this privileged information.
Victoria Derbyshire and Laura Kuenssberg sat down Sunday morning to update the Met. She continued, “If you’d like, I want to give you this breaking news, it’s from the Metropolitan Police.” They claim they will investigate allegations that Prince Andrew directed his bodyguard to eavesdrop on Virginia Giuffre, who had accused Prince Andrew of sexual abuse. She claims that when she was 17 years old, she was forced to have sex with him.
In response to this news, broadcaster Emily Maitlis, whose bombshell BBC Newsnight interview with Prince Andrew in 2019 expedited his downfall, replied: “I’m glad that they are.”
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Source: Mirror
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