Queen Elizabeth's silent statement was perhaps the royal family’s loudest to date regarding the allegations against Prince Andrew
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Andrew on August 11. Photo: Duncan McGlynn/Getty Images On Friday, August 9, hundreds of pages of court documents were unsealed in New York federal court containing yet more horrifying details of the alleged sex-trafficking empire of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Numerous powerful men were named in the court briefs — among them Prince Andrew, whose years-long friendship with Epstein was hardly a secret. On the morning of Saturday, August 10, around 9 a.m.
It wasn’t Andrew’s first public appearance since Epstein’s bombshell July 6 arrest on federal charges of sex-trafficking minors — he’d gleefully attended and even handed out prizes at a horse race in late July — but it was his first after Epstein’s death, and the first after yet more allegations had emerged against him in those unsealed documents.
The royal family has issued denials after every round of accusations regarding Andrew’s behavior in Epstein’s company. Over the weekend, regarding the new Sjöberg testimony, Buckingham Palace said in a statement to NBC News, “This relates to proceedings in the United States, to which the Duke of York is not a party. Any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically untrue.”
The language of these statements seems to suggest that a British person couldn’t possibly understand an American criminal case. But it is undeniable that Prince Andrew remained connected with Epstein even after he’d pleaded guilty to soliciting a minor for sex in 2008: The two buddies were photographed strolling through Central Park in December 2010, and the Post reported later that winter that Andrew had flown to New York to celebrate Epstein’s release from jail at the East 71st Street mansion.
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