Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was handed £12million by the Royal Family to pay off Virginia Giuffre – but his brother Charles did not contribute, Palace sources have said.
Queen Elizabeth II is understood to have loaned her second son £7million to help him settle the Epstein victim’s civil sexual assault lawsuit in 2022.
Another £3million came from Prince Philip‘s estate as the former Duke of York raided the bank of mum and dad.
The remainder of the £12million was apparently raised by a donations from other royals – but a source close to the King has denied reports that Charles ever chipped in.
‘Andrew’s not paid back a penny’, another royal insider has said.
The errant former prince apparently told his family that the millions given to Ms Giuffre would be paid back from the sale of the ski chalet he bought with his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson.
But the cash didn’t materialise, it is claimed.
The £12million deal with Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre, who took her life last April, meant that her allegations that Andrew sexually abused her on three occasions in 2001, when she was 17, were never tested in court.
Andrew in the Epstein Files over a woman lying on the floor. He is said to have paid £12million to settle with Virginia Giuffre thanks to cash from his family – and he has not paid it back
Sources close to the King said that Charles did not contribute to the fund
A royal source has claimed Andrew told his family he made next to nothing from the sale of the £13million property in the Swiss resort of Verbier, blaming the size of the mortgage.
The insider said: ‘As far as anyone knows he still has not repaid a single penny of the millions he borrowed.
‘The money from the Royal Family bought her silence but denied Virginia her day in court and the chance to openly challenge his account of what happened’.
The Sun reported that King Charles had contributed to £1.5 million loaned to Andrew on top of £7million from the Queen and £3million from his late father Prince Philip’s estate.
However, it is understood, that the King, then the Prince of Wales, did not contribute.
The Royal Family had decided to “take a little from here and a little from there” to find the £12million, the source said.
Police are today being urged to launch a sex trafficking probe into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor amid claims a woman was flown in on Jeffrey Epstein‘s ‘Lolita Express’ and smuggled into Buckingham Palace using the codename ‘Mrs Windsor’.
The paedophile’s Boeing 727–100 private jet, which he used to host orgies and traffic girls, landed around 90 times in the UK – including after his conviction for child sex offences in 2008, the Epstein Files reveal.
Stansted, Britain’s fourth busiest airport, was allegedly used as a hub to transfer victims from one Epstein plane to another.
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called it ‘by far the biggest scandal of all’ and urged Scotland Yard to begin a criminal investigation into the former Duke of York beyond misconduct in public office and breach of the Official Secrets Act.
‘The Stansted revelations alone require them to interview Andrew. I have been told privately that the investigations related to the former Prince Andrew did not properly check vital evidence of flights’, he said.
Andrew and Charles at the Duchess of Kent’s funeral at Westminster Cathedral last September
Queen Elizabeth II is understood to have loaned her second son £7million to help him settle the Epstein victim’s civil sexual assault lawsuit in 2022. Another £3million came from Prince Philip’s estate
Today it was claimed that least one Epstein victim was flown into Britain on board and then taken to Andrew at Buckingham Palace.
The disgraced former Duke of York allegedly told aides: ‘Mrs Windsor will arrive shortly, please let her in and show her up’.
Sources have claimed that other women would be whisked in to see him at his late mother and father’s London home using the same coded requests and with no security clearance.
Andrew has been linked to four women in the Epstein Files, along with Virginia Giuffre.
The Mail on Sunday revealed this week how Epstein took a young Romanian model to a private dinner at Buckingham Palace with his friend Andrew. Epstein said the royal thought she was ‘beautiful’, adding: ‘No man looks at your clothes, they see through them.’
Andrew also invited Jeffrey Epstein and an ‘enchanting‘ Russian model named Vera to dinner at Buckingham Palace during a trip to London.
Epstein also offered to introduce him to a 26-year-old Russian woman known as ‘Irina’ in August 2010.
Today The Sun reported there may be a fourth woman, brought in using the code Mrs Windsor.
Virginia Giuffre’s allegations that she was forced to have sex with Andrew are also revealed in FBI documents released in the latest tranche of documents, although her name is redacted.
The Epstein Files have laid bare just how many times the paedophile financier’s private jet landed in the UK. Flight logs show it landed at Stansted and Heathrow as well as quieter, lesser known airports across the south of England.
Gordon Brown said women were moved from one Epstein plane to another at the hub in Essex. Flight logs showed unnamed passengers were labelled as ‘female’ and names of male passengers also unknown.
He said: ‘I have asked the Met urgently to re-examine their decision-making. The emails tell us in graphic detail how Epstein was able to use Stansted Airport…to fly in girls from Latvia, Lithuania and Russia’.
Mr Brown wrote in the New Statesman: ‘In short, British authorities had little or no idea who was being trafficked through our country, and for whom other than Epstein.’
He added: ‘I have asked the police to look at this as part of the new inquiry.
‘Separately, a line of emails concerns the logistics of registering trafficked girls for English-as-a-foreign-language courses, as a route to obtaining US visas. We need to know if and to what extent this was also happening in the UK.’
Also in the UK, ex-victims’ commissioner Dame Vera Baird urged police to ‘start properly investigating’ Andrew; while the MP who heads the Commons Women and Equalities Committee said Andrew must answer to the police and Parliament.
Sources have told The Sun that Andrew had a string of women come to see him at Buckingham Palace, where he also had an office.
The insider said: ‘He would phone the duty office and always say the same thing — ‘Mrs Windsor will be arriving shortly – please let her in and show her up’.
‘This was always via one of the out of sight staff entrances.
‘It was so frequent that they used to just roll their eyes and say ‘yes sir’.
‘It went on for years.
‘The royal protection officers hated being assigned Andrew as he was so unpleasant and dismissive.’
Ghislaine Maxwell giving Jeffrey Epstein foot rubs on his private jet dubbed Lolita Express
Another source said: ‘Buckingham Palace isn’t the fortress you think it is.
‘A lot of them had no security clearance whatsoever.
‘Few details, if any, were taken because of his status within the Royal Household.
‘It was regularly discussed by courtiers but nothing was ever done to challenge it’.
The Epstein Files detail how the Lolita Express landed at Stansted’s private terminal.
Stansted has said that UK Border Force are responsible for processing passengers there.
One email to Epstein said one woman on a flight as ‘just turned 18, 179cm, very cute, speaks English, I saw her in real 3 years ago . . . I will send you the video’.
Another email from 2012, three years after Epstein’s release from prison, says: ‘JE mentioned he may use the Boeing on Dec 7 London to NY.
‘He told me he would fly Paris to London, Stansted UK to meet the Boeing there with (redacted).
‘I did some work since (redacted) has no UK visa, where she can enter UK and make transfer to Boeing’.
Another email said: ‘She’ll be escorted in side to clear, once boeing is ready to depart she is escorted to aircraft and we depart’.
It came as a senior US politician claimed the woman pictured on the floor under Andrew at Epstein’s New York mansion was a sex trafficking victim.
Three images of the former prince crouching over an unidentified woman in the paedophile financier’s home were among the Epstein files released on January 30.
