New York Post

Li’l ‘getaway’ is it, Andrew?

- Lee Brown

He’s the Prince of Hides.

Prince Andrew has reportedly avoided “multiple attempts” to serve him legal papers on behalf of his sex-assault accuser — and has bolted 500 miles to the safety of mom Queen Elizabeth II’s Scottish getaway, just days before the first hearing.

Lawyers for Virginia Roberts Giuffre — who is suing Andrew in New York — had already conceded that it would be “difficult” to serve the 61year-old royal in person. The scandal-scarred royal has since been a recluse at his home in the Royal Lodge in Windsor, where security guards have turned away lawyers trying to serve the US court papers, according to The Sun.

After avoiding “multiple attempts” in the past two weeks, Andrew on Tuesday bolted for an even safer location — his mother the monarch’s Scottish estate, Balmoral, the paper noted.

He was photograph­ed (above) in a car with his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, as the two were driven from their shared home to the queen’s 50,000-acre estate, where they had been earlier in the summer, the outlet said.

The trip comes before the first hearing is scheduled in Giuffre’s lawsuit on Monday. It is set to be a telephone conference, and it is not immediatel­y clear if either Andrew or his accuser are expected to join.

Giuffre’s lawsuit claims she was “forced to have sexual intercours­e with Prince Andrew against her will” at the behest of late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and accused madam Ghislaine Maxwell.

Andrew has repeatedly denied Giuffre’s claims, including during a BBC interview in which he insisted he had “no recollecti­on of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever.”

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