The Epstein slave who claims she was trafficked for sex with Prince Andrew today accused the royal of putting his two children through ‘hell’.
Virginia Roberts has sent a public message of support to Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie after the Duke of York was retired by the Queen and Prince Charles.
Ms Roberts, who now uses her married name Giuffre, expressed sympathy for Andrew’s daughters, whose own royal duties are under threat because of their father’s friendship with paedophile billionaire Epstein.
She tweeted: ‘I bet they’re [Beatrice and Eugenie] going through hell, I wouldn’t wish that on anyone, I have no qualms with them’.
But she added: ‘Their father should have thought about that before he decided to hang around known paedos and even participate in their abuse’.
Andrew has always denied the allegations he had sex with Virginia three times – claiming has no recollection of meeting her and producing a number of alibis in a BBC interview including being in a Pizza Express in Woking.
Prince Andrew, pictured with his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson and Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie at a ball in 2006, was accused of putting his children ‘through hell’ by the Epstein victims who claims to have had sex with him when 17
Roberts, left last month, said Epstein, right, and his alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell instructed her to sleep with the Prince on three occasions
Andrew was pictured with Roberts in 2001, with Epstein’s alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell
Virginia Roberts, who now uses her married name Giuffre, has sent a public message of support to Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie after the Duke of York was retired by the Queen over the scandal
It came after his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson has said the scandal engulfing Andrew has been ‘hard’ for her and their two daughters to deal with.
Ms Ferguson insisted the Duke of York is ‘the best man I know’, and blasted the ‘nonsense’ claims that surround him resulting from his friendship with paedophile billionaire Jeffery Epstein.
Andrew’s friendship with Epstein, pictured in Central Park in 2010, has engulfed the royal family and said to have enraged his older brother Charles
And the former Duchess of York lent support to the current Duchess of Sussex, saying she knows how hard it is to be in the media spotlight, telling Vogue: ‘I have been in Meghan’s shoes, and I still am.’
Andrew’s accuser alleges she slept with the Duke of York at Ghislaine Maxwell’s home London, in New York and the US Virgin Islands as a 17-year-old in 2001.
While her claims were first made public in 2015 with the opening of US court documents, and the scandal worsened for the Prince following his decision to clear the air with a BBC Newsnight interview.
The Duke’s claims during the programme, including his inability to sweat and a trip to Pizza Express on the night his accuser says he slept with her, drew fierce criticism and ridicule – the fallout forcing him to step down from Royal life.
Now his former wife and long time companion Fergie has told Vogue: ‘The last six months have been hard on the girls and me.
‘To see such a wonderful man go through such enormous pain. He is the best man I know.
‘It’s just incredible what he has done for Britain, and it’s all nonsense, so I talk about familyhood, and I’m very strong about it.’
Asked about media coverage of the duchess of Sussex, she added: ‘It must be hard for Meghan, and I can relate to her. I believe she is modern and fabulous. She was famous before.’
She went on: ‘I tend not to give advice because it is taken out of context, but I have been in Meghan’s shoes, and I still am. There’s always a twist of negativity and it just gets so sad and tiring; it’s hard and mean.
‘I abhor bullying and I feel desperately sorry for the pain they must be going through because I’ve been through it.’
Princess Eugenie and her older sister Princess Beatrice had attended a great deal of royal duties with their father, who has been effectively sacked by his mother
The scandal has already led to Andrew, 59, being forced to step back from his royal duties.
His accuser, now 35, told Panorama they were introduced in 2001, when she was 17, after allegedly being ‘trafficked’ to Britain on Epstein’s private jet.
She said she was taken to a VIP area in Tramp nightclub in Mayfair, central London, where Andrew bought her vodka and asked her to dance.
Miss Roberts, who claims Miss Maxwell recruited her to work as Epstein’s masseuse when she was 15, said the socialite gave her instructions as they left.
She said: ‘In the car, Ghislaine tells me that I have to do for Andrew what I do for Jeffrey and that just made me sick.’
The married mother of three alleges she and Andrew had sex that night at Miss Maxwell’s home in Belgravia.
Andrew was interviewed by Emily Maitlis in a Newsnight programme shown on November 16
Sarah Ferguson’s intervention comes after rumours her daughter Beatrice’s wedding is being delayed to avoid the scandal overshadowing the event.
Beatrice, 31, has been engaged to Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi since earlier this year but has not yet set a date for the big day, with a source recently telling ET that ‘the family is very disappointed’ adding that Prince Andrew has ’embarrassed’ them.
‘Everyone right now is concerned about Bea. Poor Bea. She deserves to have the wedding she wants and the public is going to go nuts,’ the source said.
Today Jeffrey Epstein’s sex slave Virginia Roberts claims she has been informed by the FBI that a ‘credible’ death threat has been made against her.
The 36-year-old, who alleges she was trafficked to the UK to have sex with Prince Andrew, said: ‘In response to the overwhelming amount of support I have received, I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who is standing up beside me fighting for our children to have a safer future.
‘I have been informed from the FBI there has been a credible death threat against me.’
It follows an alarming message she posted yesterday warning people that she was not suicidal and that ‘evil people want to see me quieted.’
Ms Roberts, who now goes by her married name Virginia Giuffre, also said she had kept her doctors aware of her mental health status so they should know that if she was harmed it would not have been by her own hand.
She wrote: ‘If something happens to me – in the sake of my family do not let this go away and help me to protect them. Too many evil people want to see me quieted.’
She posted the message in response to another user who suggested the FBI would try to kill her ‘to protect the ultra rich and well connected’.
It comes after Epstein died in custody in the US while awaiting trial. An official autopsy concluded he hanged himself, despite persistent conspiracies and claims by high-profile pathologist Michael Baden that the evidence ‘points to homicide’.
‘We shouldn’t ask the royals to be SAINTS’: The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby appears to DEFEND Prince Andrew over Jeffrey Epstein ‘sex slave’ scandal
The Archbishop of Canterbury appeared to defend the Duke of York today, saying of the royals’ duty to live up to a higher moral code: ‘Everybody makes mistakes, everybody is human.’
He stopped short of commenting on any particular royal but added the country should not ask the royals to be ‘superhuman saints’ and saying he was ‘astonished at what a gift they are to this country.’
It comes after the Queen and Prince Charles stripped Prince Andrew of his royal duties following his car crash Newsnight interview about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.
Epstein’s former teen sex slave Virginia Roberts alleges that under pressure from Epstein and his alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell she slept with the Prince on three occasions including once as a 17-year-old. The Prince denies the accusations.
The Most Rev Justin Welby shared his Christmas message with The Big Issue on Monday, in which he reflected on the state of vulnerable people in the country, which he said has become worse over the last nine years.
The Most Rev Justin Welby shared his Christmas message with The Big Issue on Monday, in which he reflected on the state of vulnerable people in the country
The archbishop was asked explicitly about the Duke of York scandal.
He was asked: ‘Following the Prince Andrew scandal, do you think the royal family have to adhere to a higher moral code than the rest of society?
The primate of the established church replied: ‘I think generally speaking they do serve in a way that is extraordinary in what is literally, for them, a life sentence.
‘I think to ask that they be superhuman saints is not what we should do because nobody is like that.
‘Everybody makes mistakes, everybody is human.
‘I am not commenting on any member of the royal family except to say that I am astonished at what a gift they are to this country.
Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in his jail cell while awaiting trail
‘It is very easy to throw thing at them – they are very much more exposed than most people.
‘Where people go wrong – you just have to remember everyone is human.’
He said there are more rough sleepers, an increase in foodbank users and a rise in the use of ‘vitriolic language’, while people’s tolerance of minority groups has decreased, with these groups experiencing a ‘much harder time’.
‘We have had an MP murdered. I am not saying we are in a crisis, I am just saying the direction of travel is not what we want,’ he told The Big Issue.
The archbishop revealed he saw the Pope last week, and they talked about football, God and praying.
The Archbishop of Canterbury’I know nothing about Argentinian football, but I was teasing him about it. We talk about peace-building round the world,’ he said.
‘We make jokes and laugh. It’s just a conversation.’
Asked what his Christmas message for the country was, the archbishop said: ‘Don’t fear. Deal with fear. In the New Testament, among the letters from John, it says ‘perfect love casts out fear’. So love, don’t fear.
‘Because the kind of love that God shows is a love that doesn’t expect return. That forgives failure. That loves people despite their ups and downs.
‘That kind of love changes the world in a dramatic and wonderful way.’