The full interview is set to air Saturday night on BBC Two , which released excerpts from it on Friday. The second son of Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Andrew has faced scrutiny for his ties to Mr. Epstein, the disgraced financier who faced a raft of sex trafficking and abuse charges before taking his own life in August in a Manhattan jail cell. The glare was so intense that it prompted Buckingham Palace to take the rare step of issuing a statement at the time of Mr. Epstein’s death in which Prince Andrew said he was “appalled” by the allegations against Mr. Epstein and rejected any suggestion that the prince would take part in the “exploitation of any human being.”While Prince Andrew expressed remorse in the interview over accepting Mr. Epstein’s invitation to stay with him, he denied allegations in a legal filing that Mr. Epstein lent one of his accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, to him for sex on several occasions when she was 17. “I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady,” Prince Andrew said. “None whatsoever.”Emily Maitlis, the BBC journalist who sat down with Prince Andrew, said in a post on Twitter that it was a “no holds barred interview,” adding that none of the questions were vetted ahead of time.

Source: New York Times November 16, 2019 00:11 UTC