ANDY HIDES IN QUEEN’S DUCK POND
Randy Andy ‘hiding in Queen’s pond’ after Ghislaine Maxwell arrest
PRINCE Andrew hid in the Queen’s DUCK POND with a rubber duck on his head and a drinking straw to breathe through after the arrest of his pal Ghislaine Maxwell, Sunday
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The under- the- microscope Royal took to his heels when he heard that Maxwell had been nicked in the U. S., accused of procuring underage girls for her former lover Jeffrey Epstein.
Ms Maxwell, 58, daughter of the late Robert Maxwell, was accused of helping Epstein to “recruit, groom and ultimately abuse” at least three girls, including one as young as 14, between 1994 and 1997.
Snorkel
One of the girls was allegedly abused in London.
Epstein, a convicted sex offender, died aged 66 in a New York jail last August. His death was ruled to be “suicide”.
It’s said that Maxwell is “singing like a canary” to U. S. prosecutors and Prince Andrew – once known as Randy Andy – is thought to be terrified about what she may be saying.
A Royal source said: “The Prince slipped his protection officers and all hell broke loose at Windsor.
“They eventually found him in the duck pond using a straw as a snorkel. I think it was a trick he’d picked up in his Navy days.
“Bizarrely, he’d used a rubber duck
on his head as part of the disguise, which game the game away.
“A rubber duck stood out like a sore thumb among all those posh swans and that.”
Maxwell faces up to 35 years in jail if convicted. After being arrested at her secret lair in New Hampshire, she appeared in court by a video link and was remanded in custody for transfer to New York.
Audrey Strauss, Acting US Attorney for the southern district of New York, said that the investigation into Epstein and his associates was continuing and she urged the Duke of York to “come in to talk to us”.
Virginia Roberts Giuffre has claimed that she was introduced to Epstein by Maxwell before being trafficked to London and forced to have sex with the Duke in Maxwell’s Belgravia home.
Prince Andrew denied the claim and said that he has no recollection of meeting Ms Giuffre. Last year Scotland Yard said that it would not open a criminal investigation into the claims.