Royal sources have accused him of ‘carrying on as if nothing has happened’
by claiming he hadn’t properly been served papers.
Lawyers for Virginia Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who brought the civil case against the Duke, say they had already handed him papers in ‘several ways’. But they were given another week to do so again and an unimpressed Judge Lewis Kaplan urged Andrew’s team to ‘cut out all the technicalities and get to the substance’.She says this was arranged by his former friend and paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself in a New York jail cell in 2019 while awaiting sex-trafficking charges. Andrew vehemently denies the allegations against him.
The Duke is now holed up at the Queen’s private 550-acre Balmoral estate in Aberdeenshire while his lawyers discuss their next move.The Duke with Ms Giuffre , then aged 17, and Jeffrey Epstein’s partner Ghislaine Maxwell at her London townhouse in 2001 ‘He seems to be determined to stay out of sight and makes it impossible for anyone to serve papers.’
Just days before his hearing, Andrew held a shooting party on the grounds with a select group of guests, which was thought to include the Crown Prince of Bahrain.Earlier this week ITV’s royal editor Chris Ship said: ‘If they continue to stonewall if they’re continuing this policy of silence that is the legal advice that Prince Andrew is getting.
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