Andrew served again in ‘rape’ suit

Prince Andrew has again been served papers in the sex-assault lawsuit against him, despite reportedly missing the birth of his granddaughter while trying to avoid them.

An attorney for accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre filed papers late Monday stating that the suit had been delivered in numerous legal ways to Andrew, whose lawyers disputed that earlier deliveries were legally binding.

In a Manhattan Supreme Court affidavit, attorney Sigrid McCawley showed receipts proving the documents were received by Britain’s High Court at 8:27 a.m. Monday. The documents were also received from FedEx by the Duke of York’s US lawyer, Andrew

Brettler, at 9:22 a.m., after e-mails had already been sent to him Friday, the filing showed.

A judge had approved both methods of service as the middle son of Queen Elizabeth II was accused by Giuffre’s lawyers of playing a “game of a hide-and-seek behind palace walls” to dodge the suit accusing him of assaulting Giuffre three times, starting when she was 17.

He even missed the birth of daughter Princess Beatrice’s first child so he could stay in the safety of his monarch mom’s Scottish estate, Balmoral, sources told The Sun.

Beatrice’s mother, Sarah Ferguson, made the 500mile trip to be at the birth Saturday in London — but Andrew stayed in hiding.

Giuffre’s lawsuit says she was forced to have sex with Andrew on the orders of late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his accused madam, Ghislaine Maxwell.

Andrew’s “actions constitute sexual offenses” including first- and third-degree rape, the suit claims.

Andrew has vehemently denied the accusations.