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PRINCE Andrew’s efforts to
distance himself from the Jeffrey
Epstein scandal were thrown into
turmoil last night as details emerged
of how he hosted the paedophile
and his entourage at Balmoral.
One of the young women on the trip
told the Daily Mail how the prince per-
sonally welcomed the party to the castle
in mid-1999 – after the disgraced US fin-
ancier had already begun recruiting
dozens of underage girls as sex slaves.
It comes after revelations that Andrew
even visited Epstein – who killed himself in
prison this month – at his home in New York
in 2010. This was two years after Epstein
had been convicted of sex with a child.
Last night, Prince Andrew said he was
‘appalled’ by the allegations about Epstein.
In a statement released to The Daily Tele-
graph, Buckingham Palace said: ‘The Duke
of York has been appalled by the recent
reports of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged crimes.
‘His Royal Highness deplores the exploita-
tion of any human being and the suggestion
he would condone, participate in or encour-
age any such behaviour is abhorrent.’
In footage from 2010 published by The
Mail on Sunday, the Duke of York was shown
grinning from the doorway of Epstein’s
mansion – dubbed the ‘House of Horrors’ by
By Katherine Rushton
up underage girls for him to have
sex with. The woman who joined
them on the trip – not long after
she had started giving sexual mas-
sages to Epstein – recalled how she
had felt like she was in a ‘fairytale’,
brushing with royalty. But now she
says she had no idea why she was
ever included in the visit.
‘Why was I really there?’ she said.
‘Did [Epstein] really enjoy my
company all that much or was I
being prepped to end up being
sent out like a gift to some peo-
ple?’ She avoided any plans
Epstein may have had for her that
evening by retiring to bed early.
Nearly a year later, in June 2000,
Epstein and Miss Maxwell
attended a party at Windsor Cas-
tle hosted by the Queen to mark
Andrew’s 40th birthday, Princess
Anne’s 50th, Princess Margaret’s
70th and Prince William’s 18th.
In 2001, Andrew met another
member of Epstein’s entourage,
Virginia Roberts, who claims she
was on a trip to London with the
financier when she met Andrewand had sex with him in a bath.
Miss Roberts claims she slept with
Andrew three times – in London
and New York – when she was 17.
The claims, submitted to a court
in 2014, were thrown out by a judge
as ‘immaterial and impertinent’.
Andrew has vehemently denied
any sexual encounters with her.
Buckingham Palace has said:
‘Any suggestion of impropriety
with underage minors is categori-
cally untrue. It is emphatically
denied that the Duke of York hadany form of sexual contact or rela-
tionship with Virginia Roberts.’
However, he remains haunted by
a photograph taken with her on the
London trip, with his arm around
Miss Roberts’s bare midriff.
Yesterday, the woman who
Andrew welcomed to Balmoral said
the photo ‘sickened’ her.
She spent almost a year in
Epstein’s orbit, joining him on about
a dozen trips. He gave her a place to
live in New York, rent-free, and later
paid for her to go to college. She ini-tially met Epstein through her work
as a model. The second time they
met, on a trip to Palm Beach, he
asked her to give her a massage. It
quickly turned sexual. ‘We fooled
around a bit. I never had intercourse
with him,’ she said.
Epstein killed himself in jail this
month after being accused of sexu-
ally abusing a string of underage
girls. A spokesman for Prince
Andrew declined to comment on
the Balmoral visit.
Comment – Page 16Inside the ‘House of Horrors’
Leaving: Epstein, wearing a thick coat, is followed out of his New
York mansion by a young blonde in a thin grey sweater in 2010Brief chat: About an hour later, Prince Andrew is seen standing
in the doorway as another woman steps out into the coldCheerful:
Andrew grins
and waves
goodbye to
the brunette‘Andrew was really
nice and polite’some of his victims – as a number of very
young women leave and enter.
Speaking on condition of anonymity yes-
terday, the woman who joined Epstein at
Balmoral 20 years ago recalled making ‘chit-
chat’ with the prince.
‘He was really nice. He was very polite. [He
had his] guard up,’ said the woman, who
was then a model in her 20s. She told how
the group stayed overnight at the 52-bed-
room castle, and spent the following day
being entertained in the grounds.
The visit is thought to have taken place in
late summer or early autumn – when the
Queen is likely to have been in residence.
Epstein and his entourage visited the
estate as part of a week-long trip to the UK,
during which they also stayed at the Lon-
don home of Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s
ex-partner who has been accused of lining
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VISITORS to Jeffrey Epstein’s From Daniel Bates in New York
‘House of Horrors’ were con-
fronted by ‘creepy’ interior decor,
including artificial eyeballs and a
portrait of Bill Clinton in a dress.
The entry foyer to the Manhat-
tan mansion, where Prince
Andrew is standing in the video,
was decorated with fake eyeballs.
Even more bizarre is a portrait of
former US president Clinton – afriend of Epstein – in heels and
the infamous stained blue dress
worn by Monica Lewinsky when
she performed a sex act on him.
There were prosthetic breasts
on the wall of a bathroom for
Epstein to play with, according to
one of his victims.
His study had photos of hisfamous friends – including Woody
Allen, who has been accused of
child sexual assault – as well as a
stuffed tiger and a poodle. Behind
his desk was a painting of a topless
woman by artist Kees van Dongen,
bought for $6million in 2004.
But Epstein’s sinister ‘pride and
joy’ was a gigantic chessboard
with scantily-clad figurines mod-
elled on his female staff.1
At pervert’s mansion, royal waves
‘Creepy’: Stuffed tiger in Epstein’s study Art: $6million van Dongen
Prince Andrew, pae
a jaunt to Balmoral