*Month unconfirmed
June 2000
Epstein and Maxwell attend a birthday celebration at Windsor Fort to mark Prince Andrew’s fortieth birthday, the Princess Royal’s fiftieth, the Queen Mom’s a centesimal and Princess Margaret’s seventieth, hosted through Queen Elizabeth II.
March 2001
Later, in 2014, Virginia Giuffre alleges that at age 17 she used to be trafficked through Epstein and compelled to have intercourse with Prince Andrew on 3 events. The primary instance allegedly happened in Maxwell’s London townhouse in March 2001. Within the court docket filings and in her memoir launched in October 2025, she claimed the opposite events happened 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 won ”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 pronouncing ”we’re on this in combination”.
March 2011
Alastair Watson – who spent 9 years as Andrew’s non-public secretary – writes to The Occasions pronouncing Andrew met Epstein within the ”early Nineties”. But 8 years later, Andrew informed Newsnight that he first encountered Epstein thru his ”female friend again in 1999”, later pronouncing he noticed Epstein ”sometimes and almost certainly not more than a couple of times a yr”.
July 2011
Andrew resigns as UK industry envoy in a while.
December 2014
In a Florida court docket submitting, Virginia alleges being trafficked through Epstein and likewise alleges to were pressured 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 towards Epstein.
January 2015
Buckingham Palace denies Andrew has dedicated any impropriety after he is called 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 need 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 towards Ghislaine Maxwell, Giuffre testifies that Epstein paid her $15,000 to have intercourse with Andrew.
Would possibly 2016
All over a deposition in her case towards Maxwell, it emerges that Giuffre lent the notorious picture 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 Fort after being invited through the Prince.
2019*
A newly launched file features a declare from Johanna Sjoberg, who has stated she used to be an affiliate of Jeffrey Epstein, alleging that Prince Andrew touched her breast whilst she used to be sitting on a sofa in Epstein’s Long island condominium in 2001 – an allegation he has all the time denied.
August 2019
Epstein is located useless in his jail mobile 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 used to be 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 comprises ”inconsistencies” and notes that during some circumstances Andrew used to be on a unique continent.
In a commentary, the Palace says Andrew is ”appalled through the new stories 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 kind that therefore results in his arrest and conviction.”
November 2019
BBC Newsnight publicizes an interview wherein Andrew speaks about his dating with Epstein ”and not using a bars.” He says he has ”no recollection” of ever assembly Giuffre and provides he may just no longer have had intercourse together with her in March 2001 as a result of he used to be at Pizza Categorical together with his daughter, Beatrice, that day.
He additionally says he ”does no longer be apologetic about” his friendship with Epstein, regardless that he admits he will have to no longer 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 keen ”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 battle this battle” 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 pronouncing Andrew’s legal professionals were 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 secret agent as one in all ”Andrew’s closest inside confidants”.
June 2020
Andrew’s legal professionals say he introduced to lend a hand the USA Division of Justice ”on no less than 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 keen to co‑function,” regardless that he ”time and again declines” requests to time table an interview.
August 2021
Giuffre’s legal professionals report a civil go well with towards Andrew. The Prince is the one named defendant within the 15‑web page declare, regardless that Epstein and Maxwell are referenced right through.
December 2021
Ghislaine Maxwell is convicted in New York of helping Epstein’s sexual abuse of minor women.
January 2022
A US pass judgement on laws the civil case towards Andrew would possibly 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 personal citizen.”
February 2022
Court docket paperwork divulge that Andrew and Giuffre achieve 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 ”exhibit his be apologetic about for his affiliation with Epstein.”
January 2024
Unsealed paperwork connected to Ms Giuffre’s civil declare towards Ghislaine Maxwell revisit in the past made allegations about Prince Andrew – together with references to purported intercourse tapes and claims he used to be provide at an tournament involving underage women. Andrew has all the time denied any involvement in criminality.
December 2024
At a Top Court docket listening to it emerges that Yang Tengbo, the alleged Chinese language secret agent, is a ”shut” confidant of Andrew. Andrew problems a commentary pronouncing 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 electronic mail reportedly despatched through Prince Andrew to Jeffrey Epstein in 2011 – wherein 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 persistently denied any wrongdoing.
