Prince Andrew has been seen for the first time since his accuser Virginia Giuffre drew worldwide attention saying she had ‘four days to live’ after a bus crash.
The Duke of York was spotted horse-riding in Windsor, wearing a navy blue outfit.
The royal appeared stern-faced and distracted during his ride.
Ms Giuffre, 41, claims she was trafficked for sex to the Duke by the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein as a teen.
On Monday, she posted a photo of herself with severe bruises on Instagram from a hospital bed, claiming her car had collided with a school bus.
The mother-of-three made headlines with the post, in which she wished farewell to her loved ones, saying she has ‘gone into kidney renal failure, they’ve given me four days to live’.
But her family later revealed she did not mean to share the post publicly and thanked people for the ‘outpouring of love and support’ she received in the meantime.
A ‘minor crash’ between a school bus and a car had been reported to police on March 24 in Neergabby, about 12 miles north of Perth, near Ms Giuffre’s current residence.
‘The collision was reported by the bus driver the following day,’ a Western Australia Police spokesperson said.
‘There were no reported injuries as a result of the crash.’
Andrew also came under the spotlight yesterday after confidential documents about his involvement with an alleged Chinese spy and his relation to China’s president Xi Jinping were made public.
The documents reveal details of Andrew’s ‘communication channel’ with the Chinese president, which included sending him an annual birthday letter.
They also reveal how MI5 warned against Andrew having contact with the alleged spy, Yang Tengbo.
Yang, a businessman who had lived in the UK since 2002, was a key figure in Andrew’s Pitch@Palace scheme that linked entrepreneurs and investors.
The Duke’s ex-advisor, Dominic Hampshire, viewed Tengbo as Andrew’s ‘only light at the end of the tunnel’ after his bombshell Newsnight interview in 2019, according to the documents, released by a court after a legal battle by several media outlets.
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