Prince Andrew has been served with a sexual assault lawsuit by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, an American woman who has accused the Prince of having sex with her when she was underage, a new court document revealed.
Virginia has claimed the incident occurred during the same time she also was being abused by his friend Jeffrey Epstein.
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According to MailOnline, an agent working on behalf of Virginia handed the papers over to police officers at Andrew’s home in Windsor, England, on August 27.
Reportedly, the agent had tried the previous day to serve The Duke of York with the papers but was rebuffed and told that staff had been ‘primed’ not to accept any documents, the court papers state.
The following day, it’s reported that the officers at the gate of Andrew’s home changed their minds and allowed the paperwork to be delivered to the royal.
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Virginia’s lawyer David Boies has previously confirmed they were trying to serve the lawsuit by hand, adding: ‘We’ll present a copy of the complaint in a formal way. He is a foreign citizen so we must do this under the Hague Convention.’
If it is truly the case and Andrew has been served the papers, he will have until Sept 21 to respond to the accusations.
In an infamous BBC interview from 2019, addressing the allegations against him and his close connection to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Andrew alleged that he never met Virginia.
A widely-circulated photo taken inside the London townhouse of Epstein’s alleged accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, shows Andrew smiling for the camera with his arm around Virginia’s waste while Maxwell stands in the background.
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Epstein, who was a friend of Andrew’s for years, had also been a friend to former Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton. He died in August 2019 in a Manhattan federal jail cell from what has officially been ruled suicide.
Andrew this week visited the Queen’s Balmoral estate in Scotland, for the second time in a month. Virginia, now 38, goes by her married name Virginia Giuffre and currently resides in Australia with her husband and three kids.