Andrew Mountbatten Windsor told disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein it would be “good to catch up in person” after the paedophile was released from prison for prostituting minors, court documents show. In an email on April 15, 2010, following a suggestion from Epstein that the then-prince should meet American banker Jes Staley.
Andrew responded: “I would love to, but sadly heading into the stan’s today and back via Kiev next Fri/Sat, so will miss him.
“But I will make sure I meet him soon on another trip.
“Also I have no immediate plans to drop by New York but I think I should at some stage soon.
“I’ll look and see if I can make a couple of days before the summer.
“It would be good to catch up in person.”
The pair were later pictured together in Central Park in New York in December 2010 in a meeting Andrew claimed in his 2019 Newsnight interview was to break off their friendship.
Andrew was accused of sexually abusing Epstein survivor Virginia Giuffre when she was just 17 – allegations he has always vehemently denied.
In 2022, Andrew settled a civil case with Ms Giuffre for a reported £12m with no admission of liability.
Ms Giuffre died by suicide in April, aged 41. In her posthumous memoir, she claimed that Andrew “believed that having sex with me was his birthright”.
On Thursday, Buckingham Palace announced that King Charles had commenced a “formal process to remove the style, titles and honours of Prince Andrew.”
