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Years of allegations stemming from former Prince Andrew’s close friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein culminated Thursday in a long-sought moment for survivors of Epstein’s abuse, when King Charles III’s brother was arrested. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest is linked to suspected misconduct in public officenot his actions with young women linked to Epstein.

The arrest came less than three weeks after huge trove of files released by the US Department of Justice included a series of potentially incriminating documents that appear to show that Andrew shared sensitive government information with Epstein when he was a trade envoy for the British government, as well as new photographs of him with unidentified young women.

Andrew, as UK trade envoy, may have shared confidential information with Epstein

Emails to Epstein from a sender called “The Duke” show reports sent from foreign trade missions. One of them is known as a “confidential writing.” Andrew held the title of Duke of York at the time.

king charles started the process of strip his brother of his royal titles in October, and evicted him from his royal mansion in February.

Emails from 2010 show that Mountbatten-Windsor undertook a two-week tour of Southeast Asia in her role as the UK’s special representative for international trade and investment, which she held between 2001 and 2011.

The emails were signed “A” and the signature block includes “HRH The Duke of York KG”, which was his previous title. The original email sent to Epstein included a signature indicating it was sent by a “Special Advisor to His Royal Highness the Duke of York.”

The confidential information included “visit reports” from Vietnam, Singapore, Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China, and a “confidential report prepared by the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Helmand Province for International Investment Opportunities.”

The report looks at the investment opportunities explored by the then Duke of York.

Photos of Andrew with women

A photo in the Million Files cache shows a man who appears to be Andrew lying on the laps of several women, whose faces have been redacted, with Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell standing in the background.

Another set of photos shows a man who appears to be him, hunched on his hands and knees over a woman lying face down on the ground. His face is also redacted.

Email to Maxwell from “A”

Like the email with potentially confidential information sent to Epstein, a 2001 email to Maxwell, signed “A,” asks if he has found “inappropriate new friends” with whom the writer can spend time and “have fun.”

The writer, “A”, says in the message that they are with the royal family at the Balmoral estate in Scotland.

The August 16, 2001 email, sent from an email handle that identified the user only as “The Invisible Man,” read: “I’m here at Balmoral Summer Camp for the Royal Family. Activities run all day and I’m totally exhausted at the end of each day.”

Emails between Andrew’s lawyer and the Department of Justice

Several email exchanges from 2020 show Andrew’s lawyer, Gary Bloxsome, asking US Justice Department officials to stop making public statements about Andrew and, in particular, to stop contradicting the former prince’s statement that he wanted to cooperate with authorities.

Prosecutors repeatedly said that if Andrew really wanted to cooperate with the federal investigation, their doors were open. One exchange revealed the diplomatic delicacy of dealing with matters related to the prince. Bloxsome wrote that before his client could cooperate, Bloxsome “would need to gather information from the Royal Household and others.”

In 2011, the FBI learned of accusations against Andrew that coincide with those made by Virginia Giuffre.

A 2011 FBI report, which appears to be a record of statements provided by a survivor, alleges that then-Prince Andrew knowingly had sexual relations with a 17-year-old girl. The content of the accusations coincides with those previously formulated by Virginia Giuffre.

Giuffre alleged that she was trafficked into having sex with Andrew when she was a teenager. Giuffre died by suicide last year at 41 years old. His family thanked British police on Thursday after his arrest. was announcedalthough he was not arrested in connection with Giuffre’s accusations.

The FBI report says Epstein, Maxwell and Andrew were at a nightclub in London when Epstein and Maxwell asked Andrew to guess the age of a girl, whose name is redacted in the document. It shows that he correctly guessed that she was 17 years old.

The report adds that Andrew was “grabbing her waist and fondling her on the dance floor” and when they returned to Maxwell’s London residence, they entered the bathroom and engaged in sexual activity. Two months later, the girl went to Epstein’s Manhattan home and gave Andrew an erotic massage, the report says.

In 2019, Andrew denied in an interview with BBC Newsnight that he once had sex with Giuffre, saying bluntly: “It didn’t happen.”

Giuffre sued him in 2021 and the lawsuit was established for an undisclosed sum.

Ghislaine Maxwell’s draft statement appears to confirm the authenticity of Virginia Giuffre’s photo with Andrew

An email with a draft statement on file appears to have been sent by Maxwell to Epstein in January 2015. In the email, Maxwell focuses on a redacted person who she claims made allegations in the media against her and Andrew, and who, in Maxwell’s words, is “selling her memoir to the highest bidder.”

The redacted person Maxwell spoke about appears to be Giuffre, based on the details she describes, including that attorney Brad Edwards represented the person.

Maxwell said in the email that she met the redacted person who worked as a masseuse at Mar-a-Lago and that Epstein interviewed the redacted person to be his masseuse. Maxwell claims he understood she was over 18 years old. Giuffre would have been 16 at the time, by her own account.

Maxwell said in 2001 that he was in London and that the redacted person met some of his friends, including then-Prince Andrew. He also said he took a photo and adds that he never asked the redacted person to give Andrew a massage.

A well-known photo that Giuffre says was taken in March 2001 appears to show Andrew with his arm around her waist, with Maxwell smiling in the background. Maxwell has sometimes claimed It was false.

Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence after being convicted in 2021 for her role in helping Epstein recruit and abuse underage girls. she was transferred from a federal correctional facility in Tallahassee, Florida, to a lower-security facility in Bryan, Texas, last year after she was interviewed by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. No reason was given for the move.