Family rallies around Prince Andrew after he is named 69 times in damning Epstein docs
MEMBERS of the royal family have rallied around Prince Andrew after he was named 69 times in damning Epstein docs.
Andrew has been mentioned numerous times in new US court papers naming associates of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The Prince, 63, plunged the Royal Family into a fresh scandal amid detailed claims he took part in an “underage orgy” and groped a woman’s breast while she sat in his lap like “Santa”.
The dossier released in New York includes claims an underage girl was told to give Andrew “whatever he demanded” while on Epstein’s private Caribbean resort on Little St James — dubbed “paedophile island”.
All the allegations are vehemently denied by Prince Andrew.
Today, his daughter Princess Beatrice was snapped arriving at the entrance to Prince Andrew’s Royal Lodge in her Range Rover.
The notoriously protective royal visited her father after the fresh scandal.
The Duke of York was stripped of his royal roles in shame and banished from public duty by Queen Elizabeth as he paid out millions of pounds to sex abuse accuser Virginia Giuffre, 40, two years ago.
He denies ever meeting Ms Giuffre and used his Newsnight interview in 2019 to issue an alibi claiming he was at Pizza Express in Woking at the time.
But dad-of-two Andrew — who has always maintained his innocence — has “crept” back into royal life.
He appeared with the whole Royal Family on a Christmas Day walk to church in a shock show of unity.
Court papers have since led to calls for King Charles, 75, to take further action and force his brother from the Royal Lodge in Windsor and even remove his royal title.
Andrew took up residence at the 31-room home in 2003 after refusing his brother’s requests to move into the smaller Frogmore Cottage.
But despite the shocking revelations in the files, friends of Andrew reckon they do not reveal anything new.
They believe the documents instead lay out in detail the “breadth and depth” of the relationship Epstein had with US establishment figures such as former US President Bill Clinton.