Second woman alleges Epstein sent her to UK to have sex with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

A second woman has alleged that Jeffrey Epstein sent her to the UK to have a sexual encounter with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, according to her lawyer.The woman has claimed she spent the night at the former prince’s residence Royal Lodge in 2010, her US lawyer, Brad Edwards, told the BBC. The woman, who is not British, was in her 20s at the time, it was reported.Edwards, from the Florida-based law firm Edwards Henderson, said that after spending the night with Mountbatten-Windsor, the woman claims, she was given a tour of Buckingham Palace and tea.“We’re talking about at least one woman who was sent by Jeffrey Epstein over to Prince Andrew. And she even had, after a night with Prince Andrew, a tour of Buckingham Palace,” Edwards told the broadcaster.It is the first time an Epstein accuser has alleged a sexual encounter at a royal residence, Royal Lodge.BBC News said it had received no response to a request for comment from Mountbatten-Windsor on the claim, and that although Buckingham Palace routinely records the names of tour guests, it had not been possible to corroborate the woman’s visit without revealing her identity.Edwards is said to represent more than 200 Epstein survivors worldwide, and represented Virginia Giuffre, who alleged that she was brought to London to have sex with the former prince in 2001 when she was 17. Giuffre said she was forced to have sex with Andrew twice more in 2001 and 2002, once in New York and once on Epstein’s private Caribbean island. She killed herself in April last year.Mountbatten-Windsor has consistently denied Giuffre’s claims and any wrongdoing related to Epstein, a convicted sex offender who killed himself in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019.The lawyer told the BBC there were communications between his client and the former prince before the encounter where she alleges she spent the night with him. Edwards said he had been in contact with “certain legal counsel” of the former prince in the US, but said Mountbatten-Windsor had “seemingly been disconnected from his lawyers”.According to the BBC report, Edwards said communications stopped after King Charles formally removed his sibling’s “style, title and honours” in October, after the publication of Giuffre’s posthumous memoir.The lawyer told the BBC he was now considering filing a civil lawsuit on the woman’s behalf against the former prince.Giuffre filed a civil lawsuit in the US against Andrew in 2021 and settled the case in February 2022 for an estimated £12m.The Guardian has attempted to contact Mountbatten-Windsor for comment. In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In the US, you can call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 988, chat on 988lifeline.org, or text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis counselor. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org