*Month unconfirmed
June 2000
Epstein and Maxwell attend a birthday celebration at Windsor Citadel to mark Prince Andrew’s fortieth birthday, the Princess Royal’s fiftieth, the Queen Mom’s a centesimal and Princess Margaret’s seventieth, hosted by way of Queen Elizabeth II.
March 2001
Later, in 2014, Virginia Giuffre alleges that at age 17 she was once trafficked by way of Epstein and compelled to have intercourse with Prince Andrew on 3 events. The primary instance allegedly came about in Maxwell’s London townhouse in March 2001. Within the courtroom filings and in her memoir launched in October 2025, she claimed the opposite events came about at Epstein’s New York mansion and his non-public Caribbean island.
June 2008
Epstein admits to prostituting minors and is convicted, receiving an 18‑month jail sentence.
2009*
Epstein’s former housekeeper, Juan Alessi, testifies all through his employer’s trial that Andrew gained ”day-to-day massages” at Epstein’s Florida house.
July 2009
Epstein is launched from jail.
December 2010
Andrew is photographed 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 announcing ”we’re on this in combination”.
March 2011
Alastair Watson – who spent 9 years as Andrew’s non-public secretary – writes to The Instances announcing Andrew met Epstein within the ”early Nineteen Nineties”. But 8 years later, Andrew advised Newsnight that he first encountered Epstein via his ”female friend again in 1999”, later announcing he noticed Epstein ”once in a while and almost definitely not more than a few times a 12 months”.
July 2011
Andrew resigns as UK business envoy in a while.
December 2014
In a Florida courtroom submitting, Virginia alleges being trafficked by way of Epstein and in addition alleges to were compelled to have intercourse with him, Prince Andrew and different males. The pass judgement on later stated in 2015 the claims are ”immaterial and impertinent” to the case in opposition to Epstein.
January 2015
Buckingham Palace denies Andrew has dedicated any impropriety after he is known as in US paperwork connected to Epstein.
On the International Financial Discussion board in Davos, Andrew makes his first public engagement for the reason that allegations. He says: ”I simply want to reiterate, and to reaffirm, the statements that experience already been made on my behalf by way of Buckingham Palace.”
2015*
In a civil go well with filed in opposition to Ghislaine Maxwell, Giuffre testifies that Epstein paid her $15,000 to have intercourse with Andrew.
Might 2016
All over a deposition in her case in opposition to Maxwell, it emerges that Giuffre lent the notorious photograph to the FBI in 2011 however allegedly remaining noticed it packed in a field and shipped from Colorado to Sydney someday between between 2011 and 2016, when she emigrated to Australia.
June 2018
Alleged Chinese language secret agent Yang Tengbo visits Buckingham Palace two times to satisfy Andrew. He’s additionally stated to realize access to St James’s Palace and Windsor Citadel after being invited by way of the Prince.
2019*
A newly launched file features a declare from Johanna Sjoberg, who has stated she was once an affiliate of Jeffrey Epstein, alleging that Prince Andrew touched her breast whilst she was once sitting on a sofa in Epstein’s Long island rental in 2001 – an allegation he has at all times denied.
August 2019
Epstein is located lifeless in his jail cellular on 10 August, an obvious suicide, after being charged with intercourse trafficking.
One by one David Rogers, a pilot on Epstein’s non-public jet, claims Andrew was once a passenger on previous flights with Epstein and Giuffre. Rogers additionally testifies that Epstein, Andrew and Giuffre travelled to the United States Virgin Islands on 11 April 2001.
Buckingham Palace says the file comprises ”inconsistencies” and notes that during some instances Andrew was once on a special continent.
In a remark, the Palace says Andrew is ”appalled by way of the hot reviews of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged crimes”.
Andrew additionally problems a remark: ”At no level all through the restricted time I spend with him (Epstein) do I see, witness or suspect any behaviour of the kind that due to this fact results in his arrest and conviction.”
November 2019
BBC Newsnight pronounces an interview wherein Andrew speaks about his courting with Epstein ”and not using a bars.” He says he has ”no recollection” of ever assembly Giuffre and provides he may no longer have had intercourse together with her in March 2001 as a result of he was once at Pizza Specific along with his daughter, Beatrice, that day.
He additionally says he ”does no longer feel sorry about” his friendship with Epstein, although he admits he must no longer have visited him in New York in 2010 to damage off their friendship.
4 days after the interview, he publicizes he’s stepping again from royal tasks ”for the foreseeable long term” with permission from Queen Elizabeth II.
He says he ”deeply sympathises” with Epstein’s sufferers and is keen ”to assist any suitable regulation enforcement company with their investigations, if required.”
December 2019
Giuffre appeals to the British public in a BBC Landscape interview launched in December 2019, urging them to ”get up beside me… assist me struggle this struggle” and ”no longer settle for this as being OK.”
January 2020
A US prosecutor claims Andrew has equipped ”0 co‑operation” within the Epstein intercourse trafficking inquiry.
US Lawyer Geoffrey Berman speaks out of doors Epstein’s Long island mansion announcing Andrew’s legal professionals were contacted by way of prosecutors and the FBI, who request to interview him.
March 2020
Andrew’s aide, Dominic Hampshire, writes to Yang Tengbo describing the alleged Chinese language secret agent as one in every of ”Andrew’s closest inner confidants”.
June 2020
Andrew’s legal professionals say he presented to lend a hand the United States Division of Justice ”on a minimum of 3 events this 12 months” of their Epstein investigation.
Hours later, Berman says Andrew ”once more seeks to falsely painting himself to the general public as keen and keen to co‑function,” although he ”many times declines” requests to time table an interview.
August 2021
Giuffre’s legal professionals report a civil go well with in opposition to Andrew. The Prince is the one named defendant within the 15‑web page declare, although Epstein and Maxwell are referenced all through.
December 2021
Ghislaine Maxwell is convicted in New York of helping Epstein’s sexual abuse of teenybopper ladies.
January 2022
A US pass judgement on laws the civil case in opposition to Andrew might continue.
Andrew is stripped of his army roles and royal patronages, and he relinquishes his HRH name. Buckingham Palace states Andrew ”continues to not adopt any public tasks and is protecting this example as a non-public citizen.”
February 2022
Court docket paperwork divulge that Andrew and Giuffre succeed in a ”agreement in idea” within the civil declare. The papers say Andrew promised to make a ”considerable donation” to Giuffre’s charity ”in make stronger of sufferers’ rights”, and pledged to ”show his feel sorry about for his affiliation with Epstein.”
January 2024
Unsealed paperwork connected to Ms Giuffre’s civil declare in opposition to Ghislaine Maxwell revisit in the past made allegations about Prince Andrew – together with references to purported intercourse tapes and claims he was once provide at an match involving underage ladies. Andrew has at all times denied any involvement in criminality.
December 2024
At a Prime Court docket listening to it emerges that Yang Tengbo, the alleged Chinese language secret agent, is a ”shut” confidant of Andrew. Andrew problems a remark announcing he ceased ”all touch” with Yang as soon as issues arose.
Andrew is absent from the royal circle of relatives’s conventional accumulating at Sandringham.
April 2025
Giuffre tragically dies by way of suicide elderly 41 in Neergabby, Western Australia.
October 2025
An electronic mail reportedly despatched by way of Prince Andrew to Jeffrey Epstein in 2011 – wherein he’s stated to have written, “We’re on this in combination” – has been unearthed by way of The Solar and is being described as a possible “smoking gun.” Andrew has constantly denied any wrongdoing.
