Prince Andrew has found himself in more hot water this week after his alibi said that he was at a pizza restaurant with his daughter on the same day he was accused of having sex with a sex slave of the late billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein fell apart.
Daily Mail reported that nobody can corroborate that Andrew actually took his daughter, Princess Beatrice, to a party at a Pizza Express restaurant outside London on March 10, 2001. In fact, reporters have found that Andrew actually home manicure on the afternoon that he claims to have dropped the then 12-year-old at the party in Surrey.
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, the alleged former sex slave of Epstein, has alleged that she had sex with Andrew on this date after a night of clubbing. The royal’s official bodyguard who was with Andrew that day has since passed away.
Andrew brought up his Pizza Express alibi during his infamous Newsnight interview last year.
“I was with the children and I’d taken Beatrice to a Pizza Express in Woking for a party at, I suppose, sort of 4pm or 5pm in the afternoon,” he said. When asked why he would remember this nearly twenty years later, Andrew said, “Because going to Pizza Express in Woking is an unusual thing for me to do, a very unusual thing for me to do … I’ve only been to Woking a couple of times and I remember it weirdly distinctly”
“As soon as somebody reminded me of it, I went, ‘Oh yes, I remember that,'” the royal added.
Andrew has denied ever having had sex with Giuffre.
“In the Buckingham Palace statement made on 19th August 2019 the Duke expressed deep concern for the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and hoped that they could find some resolution,” a source close to Andrew recently said. ‘It is a matter of deep regret to the Duke that he did not reiterate that empathy for the survivors during his Newsnight interview, which was clearly a mistake.”
Andrew has stepped back from royal life and has been sidelined by the royal family in the wake of these claims coming to light. While Andrew feels he can still help “support the monarchy,” a source told The Mirror that there is “zero chance” of him returning to his former role.
“Whatever the Duke (of York) may think his future looks like, he should be under no illusion that view is not shared by the people who actually make the decisions within the family,” this insider said. “There is no way of him ever returning to front line duties and he will remain very much on the outside.”
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