There’s tension at the palace as accusations from Andy’s past come back to haunt him.
When reports rocked the world that the Queen’s third son, the Duke of York, was allegedly embroiled in a sex scandal with an underage female in January 2015, Buckingham Palace stepped in to emphatically deny the shock allegations.
The prince, who’d earned the nickname “Randy Andy” was holidaying in a $42,000-a-week luxury Swiss ski chalet at the time and was forced to rush back to the UK to face the press and his family.
And there were no two people more distraught by his alleged antics than his daughters, Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice. The ordeal left the royal siblings’ lives in tatters, with Andrew forced to deny the accusations.
The prince said in a statement, “I just wish to reiterate and to reaffirm the statements that have already been made on my behalf by Buckingham Palace,” before adding, “My focus is on my work.”
BACK TO BITE HIM!
Now, Prince Andrew’s sordid past has come back to haunt them once more. In a bombshell revelation, the American teenager who accused the prince of allegedly sleeping with her three times when she was only 17 has resurfaced, and she’s living a secret life in Queensland.
Virginia Roberts, 33, now known by her married name of Giuffre, has turned her life around and lives in Cairns with her Australian husband Robert and their three school-aged children.
They reside in a quiet community surrounded by palm trees – a million miles from the nightclub in London where the prince allegedly seduced her as a teenager.
Speaking for the first time since settling a civil case in which she claimed she worked as a “sex slave” for US billionaire and convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Virginia conceded she’s happy with her new beginnings. Her husband of 16 years, who she married after 10 days of dating in Thailand, is “very protective of me”, she says.
This story is from the November 19 2018 edition of Woman's Day Australia.
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