Prince Andrew asked his Met Police bodyguard to investigate his accuser Virginia Giuffre and passed over confidential information about her, according to reports.
Andrew reportedly told Queen Elizabeth’s deputy press secretary Ed Perkins that he had asked one of his personal protection officers to dig up information about Ms Giuffre hours before a picture of him alongside the then teenager was published.
An email obtained by the Mail on Sunday has exposed that Andrew handed over Ms Giuffre’s date of birth and social security number to be investigated.
He also noted that she appeared to have a criminal record in the US, something which Ms Giuffre’s family have told the Mail was not the case.
The email does not suggest that the officer completed the prince’s request.
Ms Giuffre alleged she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew on three occasions, including when she was aged 17.
Her family told the Mail on Sunday that the latest revelations “expose the lengths to which those implicated try to discredit and defame survivors. The truth will surface and there will be no shadows in which they can hide.”
The family have also called for a full investigation into how Prince Andrew had obtained Ms Giuffre’s private information.
Ms Giuffre’s brother Sky Roberts has also urged King Charles to strip Prince Andrew of the title “prince”.
The latest accusations come after Andrew dramatically relinquished his Duke of York title and remaining honours on Friday evening in a bid by the King, in consultation with the Prince of Wales, to bring an end to the long-lasting scandal.
Last week, further questions were also raised about when Andrew ended his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as an email surfaced 12 weeks after the royal was said to have cut contact with the paedophile.
The latest accusations come days before a posthumous book by Ms Giuffre is published. Ms Giuffre died by suicide in Australia in April.
Andrew insisted his accuser sign a one-year gag order to prevent tarnishing the late Queen’s platinum jubilee, her memoirs have revealed.
Ms Giuffre’s book, which is due out on Tuesday, describes how Andrew’s disastrous Newsnight interview was like an “injection of jet fuel” for her legal team, and it raised the possibility of “subpoenaing” his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, and daughters Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie and drawing them into the legal case, The Telegraph reported.
Ms Giuffre said she got “more out of” Andrew than a reported 12-million-dollar payout and two-million-dollar donation to her charity because she had “an acknowledgement that I and many other women had been victimised and a tacit pledge to never deny it again”.
The former duke paid millions to settle a civil sexual assault case with Ms Giuffre in 2022, despite insisting he had never met her.
The Met Police and Prince Andrew declined to comment on the latest Mail on Sunday revelations.