Virginia Roberts photographed with Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell in early 2001. Collect picture from Virginia Roberts. (from PDF)

Royal protection officers are said to have accompanied the Prince on visits where he is claimed to have attended parties filled with naked young women.

Juan Alessi, Jeffrey Epstein’s butler for 11 years, says, ‘ ‘Andrew was with security. He had his two bodyguards from Scotland Yard. I can remember their names.

‘The bodyguards were off duty and they slept in one of the guest bedrooms.’

Hundreds of underage girls are said to have been abused at Epstein’s ‘parties’ – and one woman, Virginia Roberts, claims to have been forced by Epstein to have sex with Andrew when she was 17.


This is below the legal age of consent in Florida, although not in the UK.



Andrew has denied having had a sexual relationship with Roberts.

A Buckingham Palace spokesman said, ‘It is emphatically denied that the Duke of York had any form of sexual contact or relationship with [Roberts]. The allegations made are false and without any foundation.’

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Peter Prentice, head of the Royal protection unit at the time of the Epstein parties, said, ‘Protection officers are there purely to ensure their [the royals] safety. Their role does not include questions of morality.

‘The only compromise to this is, of course, if there is a question of legality.’

Other royal protection experts called for an investigation into the behaviour of the officers.

An unnamed royalty protection source, speaking to the Daily Mail, said, ‘Epstein’s Florida mansion appears to have resembled a five-star brothel. And Epstein behaved like a pimp.

‘I would have expected protection officers to have advised the duke to leave immediately.

‘If they did not, the big question is why? The problem is that protection officers are very well paid – some get up to £80,000 a year which is double their basic pay – because of overtime and special allowances.

‘They can sometimes forget they are working for the police, not the royal household.