Andrew in ‘teenage-girl orgy’

Woman says she and eight others under 18 had sex with prince.

The Duke of York has arrived in Davos, Switzerland, where he faces more lurid sex abuse allegations, with claims emerging that he took part in an orgy with nine teenage girls.

Any hope the duke may have had of putting the allegations behind him with a speech at the World Economic Forum were dashed as his accuser, Virginia Roberts, made a series of claims in her first sworn court statement.

Among them were: “The third time I had sex with Andy was in an orgy on Epstein’s private island in the US Virgin Islands. I was around 18 at the time. Jeffrey Epstein, Andy, approximately eight other young girls, and I had sex together. The other girls all seemed . . . to be under 18 and didn’t really speak English.”

She claimed the duke had a “sexual interest in feet”, that she had sex with him while his police protection officers sat in a car outside and that his friend Epstein, a convicted sex offender, was collecting private information about Queen Elizabeth II’s son.

The duke has denied any form of sexual contact with Roberts, now 31. She described the denial as hurtful.

The duke refused to comment on the latest developments as he left a chalet in the nearby resort of Klosters.

He later arrived at the conference in Davos where he did his best to carry on with business as usual by holding a series of one-on-one meetings yesterday promoting British entrepreneurs, education and science and technology.

Roberts, who now lives in Colorado with her husband and two children, claims to have had sex with the duke on three occasions in 2001, when she was 17.

On January 19 she signed a sworn statement – the first time she has made the accusations under oath – which was submitted to a court in Florida as part of an attempt to have a plea bargain agreement with Epstein overturned.

She said: “I have seen Buckingham Palace’s recent emphatic denial that Prince Andrew had sexual contact with me. That denial is false and hurtful to me.