According to recently made public records on Friday, late sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein suggested bringing a Russian woman to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the brother of King Charles III.
The conversation about the woman can be seen in some of the millions of new pages that the US Justice Department made public on Friday. It also occurs in an alleged conversation that took place weeks later regarding an invitation to Buckingham Palace.
According to the records, on August 12, 2010, Epstein sent an email to Andrew, who was addressed as “The Duke,” stating that he had “a friend who I think you might enjoy having dinner with” and that she would be in London from August 20 to August 24.
Andrew asked what Epstein had said her about him and whether she would be carrying “a message” from Epstein, the communications show.
In a follow-up email, Andrew stated that he “would be delighted to see her” but would be in Geneva on August 22.
According to Epstein, the woman was 26 years old, Russian, intelligent, and attractive. She also claimed to have the prince’s email.
The materials make no indication that a meeting was held.
Due of his affiliation with Epstein, Andrew, who has consistently denied any wrongdoing, lost all of his royal titles to the king last year.
They reportedly talked about having supper at Buckingham Palace a few weeks later.
On September 27, 2010, while in London, Epstein allegedly sent Andrew the following message: “What time would you like me… we will also need (to)…” have private time.
“We could have dinner at Buckingham Palace and lots of privacy,” Andrew retorted, noting that he was just leaving Scotland.
Two days later Andrew emailed again.
It is a pleasure to have you visit BP (Buckingham Palace). I’ll be free from 1600 to 2000, so come with anybody you like,” he wrote.
It was not clear whether any meal at the palace — then the official London residence of the late Queen Elizabeth II — ever took place.
Epstein had been freed on probation from house arrest in August 2010 following his punishment for obtaining for prostitution a minor below the age of 18.
In an interview with the BBC in 2019, Andrew stated that he had severed his relationship with the sexual offender after December 2010, but court records later disclosed that he was still in contact with him.
Anger in the UK over Andrew’s connections to Epstein was rekindled by further records released last year and a postmortem memoir written by Virginia Giuffre, an Epstein accuser who had accused Andrew of sexual abuse.
In the end, the king declared that his brother would be removed from his thirty-room palace on the royal estate at Windsor, west of London, and decided to take away all of his royal titles and honors.
Giuffre claimed that she was trafficked to have sex with the former prince, now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, three times, twice when she was just seventeen. Giuffre has consistently denied any sexual assault.
He gave her a multimillion-pound settlement in 2022 after she filed a case against him, but he did not acknowledge any wrongdoing.
Giuffre, an Australian and US citizen, committed suicide at her Australian home in April.
