BBC: A second woman is alleging that she was sent to the UK by Jeffrey Epstein for a sexual encounter with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, her lawyer has told the BBC.
The encounter allegedly occurred at the former prince’s residence, Royal Lodge, in 2010. The woman, who is not British, was in her 20s at the time.
The woman’s lawyer, Brad Edwards from the US firm Edwards Henderson, said that after spending the night with Andrew, she says she was also given a tour of Buckingham Palace and tea.
“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.
BBC News has asked Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor for comment, but so far he has not responded to these accusations.
Buckingham Palace routinely records the names of tour guests but it has not been possible for the BBC to corroborate the woman’s visit without revealing her identity.
The woman’s account of spending the night at Andrew’s home is the first time an Epstein survivor has alleged a sexual encounter occurred at a royal residence.
Edwards represents more than 200 Epstein survivors worldwide, and represented Virginia Giuffre, who alleged that she was brought to London to have sex with the former prince in 2001 when she was 17.
Giuffre said she was forced to have sex with Andrew two more times between 2001 and 2002 – once in New York and once on Epstein’s private Caribbean island.
Epstein was convicted in 2008 of soliciting sex from a 14-year-old girl in Florida and completed his sentence in July 2010.
