A fresh wave of controversy has hit the British Royal Family following the revelation that there is a second Jeffrey Epstein victim involving former Prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
A lawyer representing survivors of the late financier Epstein revealed on Sunday the details of the second Epstein victim involving Andrew.
According to attorney Brad Edwards, the unidentified woman—who was in her 20s at the time—claimed she was sent to London by Epstein specifically for a sexual encounter with the former Duke of York at his Royal Lodge residence.
The allegations suggest a deeply concerning timeline, placing the encounter in 2010, two years after Epstein’s initial conviction for child sex crimes.
Brad Edwards, who also represented the late Virginia Giuffre, stated that the woman spent the night at Royal Lodge and was subsequently given a “private tour” of Buckingham Palace.
This latest Epstein victim is significant because it marks the first time a survivor has claimed a sexual encounter took place within a specific royal residence.
Unlike Virginia Giuffre, who alleged her first encounter occurred at Ghislaine Maxwell’s London home, this new claimant alleges she was hosted directly on royal grounds.
“We’re talking about at least one woman who was sent by Jeffrey Epstein over to Prince Andrew. And she even had, after a night with Prince Andrew, a tour of Buckingham Palace,” the lawyer said.
Edwards said he had been in contact with “certain legal counsel” of the former prince in the United States, but said Andrew had “seemingly been disconnected from his lawyers”.
Communications stopped after King Charles formally removed Andrew’s “style, title and honours”, he said. Andrew was stripped of his royal titles in October last year, following the publication of Giuffre’s posthumous memoir. It was also announced that he would leave Royal Lodge on the Windsor estate, which had been his home since 2004.
In the statement announcing the removal of the former prince’s titles, the Palace said: “These censures are deemed necessary, even though he continues to deny the allegations against him.”
Edwards said that stripping Andrew of his titles has allowed the former prince to maintain that he has no money and no ability to provide compensation, and to “allow these women to just suffer”.
“So the idea that the Royal Family so far cares about the victims, wanted to make things right – what they have done by simply stripping Prince Andrew of his titles and nothing more, has had the exact opposite effect of what they claim they are trying to do,” he said.
In a related development, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has called on the former Prince Andrew to testify before Congress about his dealings with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Starmer’s remarks come after the latest release of files related to the disgraced financier appeared to show Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, as he is now known, kneeling over a woman whose face is redacted.
Starmer told reporters earlier Saturday: “In terms of testifying, I have always said anybody who has got information should be prepared to share that information.”
“You can’t be victim-centered if you’re not prepared to do that,” he said. “Epstein’s victims have to be the priority.”
Democrats investigating Epstein called on Britain’s former prince to answer questions about his links to Epstein in November, days after King Charles stripped his younger brother of his royal titles amid growing pressure on the palace.
Starmer said at the time that the request was a matter for Mountbatten-Windsor to consider “personally.”
