*Month unconfirmed
June 2000
Epstein and Maxwell attend a celebration at Windsor Fortress to mark Prince Andrew’s fortieth birthday, the Princess Royal’s fiftieth, the Queen Mom’s one centesimal and Princess Margaret’s seventieth, hosted through Queen Elizabeth II.
March 2001
Later, in 2014, Virginia Giuffre alleges that at age 17 she was once trafficked through Epstein and compelled to have intercourse with Prince Andrew on 3 events. The primary instance allegedly befell 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 befell 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 Nineties”. But 8 years later, Andrew instructed Newsnight that he first encountered Epstein via his ”female friend again in 1999”, later announcing he noticed Epstein ”now and again and most probably not more than a few times a yr”.
July 2011
Andrew resigns as UK business envoy in a while.
December 2014
In a Florida courtroom submitting, Virginia alleges being trafficked through Epstein and in addition alleges to had been 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 related to Epstein.
On the Global Financial Discussion board in Davos, Andrew makes his first public engagement because the allegations. He says: ”I simply want to reiterate, and to reaffirm, the statements that experience already been made on my behalf through 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 picture to the FBI in 2011 however allegedly closing 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 undercover agent Yang Tengbo visits Buckingham Palace two times to fulfill Andrew. He’s additionally stated to achieve access to St James’s Palace and Windsor Fortress after being invited through 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 Ny rental in 2001 – an allegation he has all the time denied.
August 2019
Epstein is located useless in his jail cellular on 10 August, an obvious suicide, after being charged with intercourse trafficking.
One at a time 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 USA Virgin Islands on 11 April 2001.
Buckingham Palace says the file incorporates ”inconsistencies” and notes that during some instances Andrew was once on a special continent.
In a commentary, the Palace says Andrew is ”appalled through the new experiences of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged crimes”.
Andrew additionally problems a commentary: ”At no degree all through the restricted time I spend with him (Epstein) do I see, witness or suspect any behaviour of the type that therefore ends up in his arrest and conviction.”
November 2019
BBC Newsnight declares an interview by which Andrew speaks about his courting with Epstein ”with out a bars.” He says he has ”no recollection” of ever assembly Giuffre and provides he may now not have had intercourse along with her in March 2001 as a result of he was once at Pizza Specific together with his daughter, Beatrice, that day.
He additionally says he ”does now not be apologetic about” his friendship with Epstein, although he admits he will have to now not have visited him in New York in 2010 to damage off their friendship.
4 days after the interview, he pronounces he’s stepping again from royal tasks ”for the foreseeable long run” with permission from Queen Elizabeth II.
He says he ”deeply sympathises” with Epstein’s sufferers and is prepared ”to assist any suitable legislation 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 combat this combat” and ”now not settle for this as being OK.”
January 2020
A US prosecutor claims Andrew has supplied ”0 co‑operation” within the Epstein intercourse trafficking inquiry.
US Legal professional Geoffrey Berman speaks outdoor Epstein’s Ny mansion announcing Andrew’s attorneys had been contacted through 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 undercover agent as certainly one of ”Andrew’s closest inner confidants”.
June 2020
Andrew’s attorneys say he introduced to help the USA Division of Justice ”on a minimum of 3 events this yr” of their Epstein investigation.
Hours later, Berman says Andrew ”once more seeks to falsely painting himself to the general public as keen and prepared to co‑perform,” although he ”many times declines” requests to time table an interview.
August 2021
Giuffre’s attorneys document 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 during.
December 2021
Ghislaine Maxwell is convicted in New York of assisting Epstein’s sexual abuse of youth ladies.
January 2022
A US pass judgement on regulations 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
Courtroom paperwork disclose that Andrew and Giuffre succeed in a ”agreement in idea” within the civil declare. The papers say Andrew promised to make a ”really extensive donation” to Giuffre’s charity ”in strengthen of sufferers’ rights”, and pledged to ”show his be apologetic about for his affiliation with Epstein.”
January 2024
Unsealed paperwork related 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 tournament involving underage ladies. Andrew has all the time denied any involvement in illegal activity.
December 2024
At a Top Courtroom listening to it emerges that Yang Tengbo, the alleged Chinese language undercover agent, is a ”shut” confidant of Andrew. Andrew problems a commentary announcing he ceased ”all touch” with Yang as soon as issues arose.
Andrew is absent from the royal circle of relatives’s conventional amassing at Sandringham.
April 2025
Giuffre tragically dies through suicide elderly 41 in Neergabby, Western Australia.
October 2025
An e-mail reportedly despatched through Prince Andrew to Jeffrey Epstein in 2011 – by which he’s stated to have written, “We’re on this in combination” – has been unearthed through The Solar and is being described as a possible “smoking gun.” Andrew has constantly denied any wrongdoing.
