*Month not confirmed
June 2000
Epstein and Maxwell attend a celebration at Windsor Fort to mark Prince Andrew’s fortieth birthday, the Princess Royal’s fiftieth birthday, the Queen Mom’s a hundredth birthday and Princess Margaret’s seventieth birthday, hosted by Queen Elizabeth II.
March 2001
Later, in 2014, Virginia Giuffre claims that at age 17, she was trafficked by Epstein and compelled to have intercourse with Prince Andrew on three events. The primary event allegedly occurred at Maxwell’s London house in March 2001. In courtroom filings and in her memoir launched in October 2025, she claimed the opposite events occurred at Epstein’s New York mansion and on his non-public Caribbean island.
June 2008
Epstein admits to prostituting minors and is convicted and sentenced to 18 months in jail.
2009*
Epstein’s former housekeeper, Juan Alessi, testified at his employer’s trial that Andrew obtained “day by day massages” at Epstein’s Florida house.
July 2009
Epstein is launched from jail.
December 2010
Andrew is pictured with Epstein in New York’s Central Park.
February 2011
The Mail on Sunday publishes a photograph of Virginia’s alleged first assembly with Prince Andrew. Andrew later emails Epstein to say “we’re on this collectively.”
March 2011
Alastair Watson – who spent 9 years as Andrew’s non-public secretary – writes to The Occasions saying Andrew met Epstein within the “early Nineties”. But eight years later, Andrew instructed Newsnight that he first met Epstein by his “girlfriend in 1999”, later saying he noticed Epstein “hardly ever and possibly not more than a couple of times a yr”.
July 2011
Andrew will quickly resign as UK commerce envoy.
December 2014
In a submitting in a Florida courtroom, Virginia alleges she was trafficked by Epstein and in addition alleges she was pressured to have intercourse with him, Prince Andrew and different males. The choose later stated in 2015 that the allegations had been “immaterial and irrelevant” to the case towards Epstein.
January 2015
Buckingham Palace denies Andrew dedicated any impropriety after being named in US paperwork linked to Epstein.
On the World Financial Discussion board in Davos, Andrew makes his first public engagement because the allegations. He stated: “I merely want to reiterate and reaffirm the statements which have already been made on my behalf by Buckingham Palace.”
2015*
In a civil swimsuit filed towards Ghislaine Maxwell, Giuffre testifies that Epstein paid her $15,000 to have intercourse with Andrew.
Might 2016
Throughout a deposition in her case towards Maxwell, it emerged that Giuffre loaned the notorious photograph to the FBI in 2011, however was final seen packed in a field and shipped from Colorado to Sydney between 2011 and 2016, when she emigrated to Australia.
June 2018
Suspected Chinese language spy Yang Tengbo visits Buckingham Palace twice to satisfy Andrew. He may even have entered St James’s Palace and Windsor Fort after being invited by the prince.
2019*
A newly launched doc features a declare from Johanna Sjoberg, who stated she was an affiliate of Jeffrey Epstein, alleging that Prince Andrew touched her breast whereas she sat on a sofa in Epstein’s Manhattan condominium in 2001 – an allegation he has all the time denied.
August 2019
Epstein was discovered useless in his jail cell on August 10, an obvious suicide, after being accused of intercourse trafficking.
Individually, David Rogers, the pilot of Epstein’s non-public jet, claims that Andrew was a passenger on earlier flights with Epstein and Giuffre. Rogers additionally testifies that Epstein, Andrew and Giuffre traveled to the U.S. Virgin Islands on April 11, 2001.
Buckingham Palace says the report accommodates “inconsistencies” and notes that in some circumstances Andrew was on a unique continent.
In an announcement, the Palace stated Andrew was “appalled by current studies of the alleged crimes of Jeffrey Epstein.”
Andrew additionally releases an announcement: “At no time in the course of the restricted time I spent with him (Epstein) did I see, witness or suspect any conduct that will subsequently result in his arrest and conviction. »
November 2019
BBC Newsnight broadcasts an interview wherein Andrew talks about his relationship with Epstein “with out bars”. He says he has “no reminiscence” of ever assembly Giuffre and provides that he couldn’t have had intercourse along with her in March 2001 as a result of he was at Pizza Specific along with his daughter, Beatrice, that day.
He additionally says he “doesn’t remorse” his friendship with Epstein, though he admits he mustn’t have visited him in New York in 2010 to interrupt off their friendship.
4 days after the interview, he introduced that he was stepping down from royal duties “for the foreseeable future” with the permission of Queen Elizabeth II.
He stated he “deeply sympathizes” with Epstein’s victims and is ready “to help any applicable regulation enforcement company of their investigations, if obligatory.”
December 2019
Giuffre appealed to the British public in a BBC Panorama interview revealed in December 2019, urging them to “stand with me… assist me struggle this struggle” and “not settle for that that is acceptable”.
January 2020
A US prosecutor says Andrew offered ‘no cooperation’ in Epstein intercourse trafficking investigation.
U.S. Legal professional Geoffrey Berman speaks outdoors Epstein’s Manhattan mansion, saying Andrew’s legal professionals had been contacted by prosecutors and the FBI, who requested to query him.
March 2020
Andrew’s aide Dominic Hampshire wrote to Yang Tengbo describing the alleged Chinese language spy as one among Andrew’s “closest inner confidants.”
June 2020
Andrew’s legal professionals say he provided to assist the U.S. Division of Justice “on a minimum of three events this yr” of their investigation of Epstein.
Hours later, Berman stated Andrew “is as soon as once more searching for to falsely painting himself to the general public as keen and keen to cooperate,” though he “repeatedly declines” requests to schedule an interview.
August 2021
Giuffre’s legal professionals file a civil swimsuit towards Andrew. The prince is the one named defendant within the 15-page declare, though Epstein and Maxwell are talked about all through.
December 2021
Ghislaine Maxwell is convicted in New York of serving to Epstein sexually abuse teenage ladies.
January 2022
A US choose guidelines that the civil motion towards Andrew can proceed.
Andrew is stripped of his army features and royal safety, and he renounces his title of HRH. Buckingham Palace says Andrew “continues to carry no public workplace and is pursuing this matter as a personal citizen.”
February 2022
Court docket paperwork reveal that Andrew and Giuffre attain a “tentative settlement” within the civil swimsuit. The papers declare Andrew promised to make a “substantial donation” to Giuffre’s charity “to help victims’ rights”, and pledged to “reveal his remorse for his affiliation with Epstein”.
January 2024
Unsealed paperwork linked to Ms Giuffre’s civil swimsuit towards Ghislaine Maxwell revisit earlier allegations about Prince Andrew – together with references to alleged intercourse tapes and claims he was current at an occasion involving underage ladies. Andrew has all the time denied any involvement in prison exercise.
December 2024
At a Excessive Court docket listening to it emerges that Yang Tengbo, the alleged Chinese language spy, is a “shut” confidant of Andrew. Andrew points an announcement saying he stopped “all contact” with Yang as soon as considerations arose.
Andrew is lacking from the royal household’s conventional gathering at Sandringham.
April 2025
Giuffre tragically dedicated suicide on the age of 41 in Neergabby, Western Australia.
October 2025
An e mail allegedly despatched by Prince Andrew to Jeffrey Epstein in 2011 – wherein he allegedly wrote: “We’re on this collectively” – has been found by The Solar and is being described as potential “smoking gun” proof. Andrew has all the time denied any wrongdoing.