Prince Andrew privately admitted to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein that he could have met his sex accuser Virginia Giuffre.
In his disastrous 2019 interview with BBC Newsnight, Andrew told interviewer Emily Maitlis that ‘categorically I don’t remember meeting her at all’.
Pressed repeatedly whether he was saying ‘categorically’ that he could not remember Ms Giuffre, Andrew replied: ‘Yep.’ He also suggested that an infamous photograph of him with his arm around Ms Giuffre’s waist could have been a crude forgery, saying: ‘Nobody can prove whether or not that photograph has been doctored but I don’t recollect that photograph ever being taken.’
Prince Andrew privately admitted to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein that he could have met his sex accuser Virginia Giuffre. Pictured: Andrew with Ms Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell in 2001
In his infamous Newsnight interview Prince Andrew suggested that an infamous photograph of him with his arm around Ms Giuffre’s waist could have been a crude forgery
But in a message to Epstein on February 25, 2011, two days before the MoS published an interview with Ms Giuffre and revealed the picture, Andrew appeared to accept he could have met her. Apparently updating Epstein on the MoS’s approach to him for comment ahead of the story being published, he wrote: ‘Categoric denial of Sexual Relations. Possible that I met her in a group with others and possible there is a photograph.’
He accused the MoS of ‘just gratuitously trying it on… ably abetted by Miss Roberts [Virginia Giuffre] who they will have contacted as her identity will have been known from court records, I assume.’
The Prince added: ‘Not bothered any further about it but will keep watch.’
