Prince Andrew has been spotted out riding in Windsor days after his accuser Virginia Giuffre broke her cover since she hit headlines when claiming she had ‘four days to live’ following a bus crash.
The disgraced Duke of York, 65, dressed all in navy blue, was seen wiping his brow while on his weekly ride with a female companion.
It comes three days after Ms Giuffre, 41, was pictured for the first time since she was released from the hospital after claiming she had just four days to live.
Ms Giuffre pulled into a feed store near her rural retreat at Neergabby north of Perth in a blue Chevrolet Silverado being driven by a bearded man at around 4.30pm local time.
She was wearing $600 Tiffany cat eye sunglasses but the facial injuries she claimed to have suffered in a recent bus crash were not obvious.
When Giuffre spotted Daily Mail Australia she wound down her window, raised her right middle finger and said: ‘Get the f*** out of here.’
Daily Mail Australia had been leaving the feed store carpark after making inquiries about Giuffre’s whereabouts when she arrived.
Ms Giuffre had not been seen in public since posting a now infamous hospital bed photograph following the bus crash.
Prince Andrew has been spotted out riding in Windsor days after his accuser Virginia Giuffre broke her cover since she claimed she had ‘four days to live’ following a bus crash
The disgraced Duke of York, 65, dressed all in navy blue, was seen wiping his brown while on his weekly ride
Ms Giuffre posted on Instagram about the crash on March 24, which occurred ten days after she was listed at the court near her $2m former family home
Ms Giuffre was listed to face Joondalup Magistrates Court on Wednesday morning on a domestic violence charge but was not required to appear in person and stayed away.
She was listed to appear before a magistrate less than 48 hours after being released from hospital following a now infamous social media post in which she said she would be dead in four days.
The American-born mother-of-three was sneaked out the back door of Perth’s Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital on Monday afternoon to avoid a large media pack at the front of the facility.
On Wednesday, about a dozen reporters waited for her scheduled appearance at Joondalup Magistrates Court but she did not appear in person.
Instead, lawyer Karrie Louden sought an adjournment and said she was in negotiations with police.
Ms Giuffre was charged with breaching a family violence restraining order just days before the bus crash she initially said was going to kill her.
She was first listed to face the same court, about 30km north of Perth’s central business district, on March 14.
Outside court on Wednesday, Mr Louden said she was not in a position to comment on the charge while the proceedings were before court.
Ms Giuffre gave a one finger salute after being spotted by Daily Mail Australia on Wednesday
She was spotted in public for the first time two days after she was discharged from a Perth hospital
Ms Giuffre was sitting in the front passenger seat of a blue Chevrolet Silverado being driven by a bearded man
She said Giuffre was not required to appear on Wednesday. Daily Mail Australia understands police advised her not to attend.
The matter was adjourned until June 11 when Giuffre will be required to enter a plea.
Ms Giuffre, who won a multimillion-pound payout from Prince Andrew after claiming she was trafficked to have sex with him at the age of 17, told her Instagram followers on Sunday that she only had ‘four days to live’.
She claimed her car had been hit by a school bus travelling at 110km/h which had left her with kidney failure, and doctors had told her she would be dead within days.
‘I won’t bore anyone with the details but I think it important to note that when a school bus driver comes at you driving 110km as we were slowing for a turn that no matter what your car is made of it might as well be a tin can,’ she wrote in the post.
She later said via a spokesperson that the photograph of her with a bruised face and the accompanying post had been posted on Instagram ‘in error’, and was only supposed to be available on her private Facebook account.
She was said to have been admitted to the hospital at 3am last Tuesday for an unknown reason within hours of the story of her Instagram post on the previous Sunday making headlines around the world.
Local media in western Australia claimed that Ms Giuffre had a pre-existing kidney problem which had earlier required treatment.
The bus driver at the heart of the story, Ross Munns, was quick to dispute Ms Giuffre’s account, saying that the crash happened after he had followed a slow-moving white car for three kilometres before deciding to overtake when it went under 75kmh.
The crash, which happened on Monday last week, involved a small white Toyota Highlander, driven by a 71-year-old woman who he believed to be Ms Giuffre’s carer.
Ms Giuffre won a multimillion-pound payout from Prince Andrew (pictured today) after claiming she was trafficked to have sex with him at the age of 17
The Duke of York was spotted riding in Windsor today with a female companion
The famous photograph of the-then Virginia Roberts and Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell that led to the royal’s downfall and the reported $20million payout
A Western Australia Police Force spokesperson at the time said they were aware of a ‘minor crash’ between a bus and a car in Neergabby, north of Perth, on March 24.
Mr Munns said that he had about 29 children still on board as he began his manoeuvre only for the car to suddenly start turning right in front of him to get into a rural property north of Perth, Western Australia.
Describing Ms Giuffre’s claims and the circumstances of the crash, he said: ‘It’s just all blown out of proportion and I know what happened. I didn’t even see her in the car.’
Ms Giuffre, who was known as Virginia Roberts before her marriage, claimed she had been injured in the school bus crash in her Instagram post from her hospital bed, saying she wanted to see her three children for a last time.
She wrote: ‘I’ve gone into kidney renal failure, they’ve given me four days to live, transferring me to a specialist hospital in urology.
‘I’m ready to go, just not until I see my babies one last time. My heart is shattered and every day that passes my sadness only deepens.’
Ms Giuffre’s spokesperson also appeared to pull back from her comments by claiming that she meant to have posted the statement about her crash injuries on her private Facebook page instead of her public Instagram account
Further doubts about her story emerged when her brother Sky Roberts, clarified her ‘four days to live’ claim, saying only that she was told by doctors she would have died in that timeframe if she did not receive treatment.
Regardless of the facts of the crash, the events have firmly put Ms Giuffre back in the international spotlight, making an uncomfortable situation for the royal prince.
Andrew was previously forced to pay out a settlement reportedly worth millions of pounds after Ms Giuffre alleged that paedophile Jeffrey Epstein trafficked her across the world to have sex with the prince when she was just 17.
Ms Giuffre had claimed he had sexually assaulted her three times, claims the Duke denied. The settlement did not involve any admission of liability on his behalf, and he denies any sexual contact with her.
