http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2897963/The-girls-silenced-Andrew-s-frie...Ten questions the Palace MUST answer
By Guy Adams for the Daily Mail
Soon the murky affair of Prince Andrew and Virginia Roberts will face scrutiny via a series of sensational cases due to come before the U.S. courts. But as the scandal escalates, here are ten questions the Royal Household must address…
1 You have denied that Prince Andrew had ‘any kind of sexual relationship or contact with Virginia Roberts’. He certainly did meet her, however: a photograph was taken late one night in early 2001 of the pair together at a London apartment owned by Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of the shamed late newspaper boss Robert Maxwell.
The picture shows the Duke of York’s left hand cradling Ms Roberts’s bare midriff. At the time, she was 17; he, on the other hand, was a 40-year-old father of two. So how did this image come to be taken?
2 Ms Roberts claims to have first met Prince Andrew at Ms Maxwell’s property the previous afternoon. During this initial encounter (over tea and biscuits), Roberts says the Prince was asked to guess her age. Andrew correctly estimated that she was 17, prompting Ms Maxwell to reportedly joke that Jeffrey Epstein ‘would soon have to trade her in’. Did the Prince indeed meet her that day?
3 According to Ms Roberts — in a legal claim filed in Florida last month — she and Prince Andrew had sexual contact in the hours after they returned from the Mayfair nightclub Tramp.
This, you have vehemently denied. Ms Roberts claims, however, that this alleged tryst was far from being a one-off: she says that she met the Prince on a second occasion at Epstein’s apartment in New York at Easter 2001.
When she arrived that day, she alleges that the Duke of York was seated in a leather armchair in the library, with a girl called Johanna Sjoberg on his knee.
So did Prince Andrew meet Ms Roberts at Epstein’s apartment at Easter 2001? And, furthermore, has he ever met Miss Sjoberg?
4 The lawsuit, filed last month at Florida District Court in West Palm Beach, alleges that a third sexual encounter took place shortly afterwards in 2001, on Epstein’s private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Ms Roberts claims that she and ‘seven Russian girls’ were ‘told to assemble in a big cabana’ on the island, where Prince Andrew and Epstein were sitting in armchairs.
You have described her claims as ‘false and without foundation’. But did the Prince ever visit Epstein’s private island? If so, why? And did he ever meet Ms Roberts there?
5 Jeffrey Epstein’s former handyman Juan Alessi alleges that Prince Andrew attended naked swimming pool parties at the billionaire’s Florida mansion in the early 2000s and was treated to regular massages by a harem of adolescent girls there.
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Visit: Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were among guests on this pheasant shoot, attended by Andrew (right), at Sandringham, Norfolk, after the Prince and the US businessman apparently became friends
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