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The emails of Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell showed them work together on a file to “flee the media” about the victim of Jeffrey Epstein, Virginia Giuffre, according to a new book.
The biography of the Prince of Andrew Lownie, Titledmust be released on Thursday August 14 in the United Kingdom and has already made the headlines with its report of Andrew’s relationship with Epstein and Maxwell.
He also gives details on some of the work carried out behind the scenes of the BBC to win an interview with the prince in 2019 which finally led him to back off from public life.
And this reveals that the producer of the BBC, Laura Burns, and the assistant producer Olivia Davies had gathered emails between Andrew and Maxwell by highlighting the way in which they responded to allegations.
Virginia GIUF
Why it matters
In a series of proceedings and interviews with the media, Giuffre said that it was treated by Epstein and Maxwell at 17 in London, New York and the US Virgin Islands in order to have sex with Prince Andrew.
Finally, she would continue Andrew in 2021, a case that the prince settled amicably in 2022 for an undisclosed sum without admitting responsibility. He has always denied his allegations.
Maxwell was imprisoned for 20 years in 2022 on accusations of sexual trafficking for his role in grooming girls at Epstein abuse.
The case returned under the spotlight with the re-election of President Donald Trump, whose Maga base has long pushed the story that the deep state has hidden the names of rich powerful co-conspirators with Epstein crimes.
The Trump administration ordered an examination of Epstein files while senior figures, including the Attorney General Pam Bondi, seemed to encourage the belief that new details would emerge.
The Ministry of Justice and the FBI published a note in July indicating that Epstein did not sing the eminent individuals and there would be no new cases, causing a major maga reaction.
What to know
Andrew gave the interview with Cras Cash which ended his royal career in the BBC Newsnight But another BBC show, Panoramahad also investigated him.
And Burns and Davies had traveled through America “checking police reports, interviewing Epstein staff, tracing the victims of him and Prince Andrew, and persuading Virginia Giuffre and his legal team to be questioned at the camera”, according to Titled.
Burns told Lownie that they “had found discussions by personal email between Ghislaine and Andrew to discuss Virginia.
“The emails between Ghislaine and Andrew have not exclaimed` It is a false “I have never met him” or to any other question, they rather worked together to build a file on Virginia to flee the media. “
Nowsweek approached representatives of Andrew and Maxwell to comment.
Prince Andrew’s Newsnight Interview
The Andrew Palace team was originally in talks with Panorama to give them an interview but pivoted Newsnight At the last moment, said the book.
“The way the interview has gone from Panorama to Newsnight is questionable, but the suspicion remains that the Palace preferred a direct interview to a right of response after a striking investigation,” wrote Lownie.
“Unlike the story that was presented, Newsnight, who had previously discussed an interview to promote [Andrew’s royal project] Pitch @ palace, had only sixty-two hours of opinion of what would prove to be a seminal television event.
“These are burns that had to prepare them. She approved their video insert, shared the scenario of Panorama, research, contacts, legal documents and detailed deadlines, checked their questions and wrote some of the most important questions.”
Andrew’s interview with NewsnightEmily Masitlis turned out to be the end of her royal career after being ridiculed for her answers to questions.
Among them, he said that Giuffre’s story about it sweating while they were dancing in a London nightclub could not have happened “because I have a particular medical condition, it is that I did not sweat or that I did not sweat at the time and that it was … yes, I did not sweat at the time because I had suffered from what I would describe as an overdose I was killed and I am simply impossible for me. “
Another statement that has become viral was his alibi, that he was in a Pizza Express restaurant for a birthday party attended by her teenage daughter, Princess Beatrice.
“That day that we understand now, this is the date that is March 10, I was at home, I was with the children and I took Beatrice to an Express pizza to Woking for a party to I suppose at 4:00 am or 5:00 am.”
He was also asked if he regretted his relationship with Epstein.
“Now, still not and the reason is that the people I have met and the opportunities that have been given to me to learn by him or because of him were in fact very useful,” he said.
What people say
Lownie described in the introduction of the book the research that went there: “Some three thousand people have been approached in search of this book. Less than a tenth replied. It is understandable that loyalty or deference to the crown, many should do it and therefore I am grateful to those who spoke to me, many of which had never spoken before.
“These nearly three hundred people included children of childhood, classmates, colleagues, a former staff (despite the NDAS), diplomats, charity workers, sales partners, journalists who investigated the Yorks but who were not allowed to publish their conclusions, their friends and their people who had met them in daily life.
“My information came not only from a long list of interviews – some of the file, but many have identified by using social networks, electoral rollers, LinkedIn and Who’s Who, as well as more than sixty years of media coverage, comments to newspapers and royal and marine forums closed.
“I was also able, to have gone before the courts, to obtain closed files from the national archives as well as to consult private newspapers and letters.”
However, he did the bad side of Prince Harry on passages suggesting that there was a handgun between Andrew and Harry in 2013, which was serialized in the Daily mail SATURDAY.
Harry’s spokesman said Nowsweek: “These are the coarse inaccuracies, the damaging and defamatory remarks made in the Daily mailThe story, I can confirm that a legal letter from Prince Harry’s lawyer was sent to Email. “”
What happens next
The Lownie book will be published on Wednesday August 14 by William Collins, a Harper Collins imprint.
Jack Royston is the royal chief correspondent for Nowsweekbased in London. You can find it on X, formerly Twitter, at @jack_royston and read his stories on Nowsweek‘s The Royals Facebook page.
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