Prince Andrew has reportedly avoided “multiple attempts” to serve legal papers on behalf of his sexual assault accuser – and has stopped 500 kilometers to the safety of Mother Queen Elizabeth II’s Scottish getaway , a few days before the first sight.
Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s lawyers – who are suing Andrew in New York – had already admitted that it would be “difficult” to serve the 61-year-old royal in person.
Since then, the shocked king has been a loner at his home in the Royal Lodge in Windsor, where security guards have turned away lawyers trying to serve U.S. court papers, according to the Sun.
After avoiding “multiple attempts” in the past two weeks, Andrew got an even safer place on Tuesday: his mother’s Scottish estate, Balmoral, pointed to the newspaper.
He was photographed in a car with his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, as the couple drove from their shared home to the Queen’s estate, where they had been in early summer. .
The photographs show that they arrive at the same Range Rover in which they left Windsor, suggesting that they drove the journey of more than 500 miles, which would normally take at least 9 hours, rather than run the flight.
He fled after “going crazy inside Royal Lodge for the past few weeks,” a source told the newspaper.
“He was not on horseback and could not go out due to attempts to serve him with legal documents.
“He knows he is much safer in Balmoral, on the queen’s estate,” said the source, who noted that Andrew has long been considered “the queen’s favorite son.”
The trip arrives before the first sighting of Giuffre’s lawsuit is scheduled for Monday. It is scheduled to be a conference call and it is not clear immediately whether Andrew or his accuser is expected to join.
Giuffre’s lawsuit alleges she was “forced to have sex with Prince Andrew against her will” at the urging of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and charged Mrs. Ghislaine Maxwell.
“Prince Andrew’s actions constitute sex crimes,” including the first- and third-degree rape, according to the lawsuit, which cites the New York Penal Code, according to which the rape includes someone “by forced obligation.”
Giuffre claims he suffered “substantial damage” from “extreme emotional distress, humiliation, fear, psychological trauma, loss of dignity and self-esteem and invasion of his privacy.”
Andrew has repeatedly denied Giuffre’s claims, even during a BBC interview in which he insisted he never remembered meeting this lady, or anyone.
Neither he, nor his legal team, nor Buckingham Palace have responded to the lawsuit.
Epstein hanged himself in his Manhattan jail in August 2019 while awaiting trial for serious sexual charges.
Maxwell is detained in Brooklyn awaiting trial for allegedly recruiting underage girls for Epstein. She has pleaded guilty.