Revealed: Andrew invited Epstein for dinner at Buckingham Palace just days after paedophile was released from house arrest

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor invited Jeffrey Epstein to dinner at Buckingham Palace, days after his house arrest ended.

The former prince promised the convicted pedophile ‘plenty of privacy’ shortly after he was granted freedom for molesting an underage child. The surprising September 2010 email was among a trove of more than 3 million new documents, including 2,000 videos and 180,000 images, suddenly released by the Justice Department last night.

Epstein asked for ‘private time’ during his visit to London, to which Andrew replied: ‘We could have dinner at Buckingham Palace and have plenty of privacy.’

It is unclear whether the offer was accepted. But just two days later, the pair contacted again via email, with Epstein popping the ‘g’ question to the then-prince. [Ghislaine Maxwell] ‘What are you doing…here with me?’

After Andrew said he ‘had lunch with a Saudi prince and then went to the secret intelligence firm’, he told Epstein: ‘I’m so glad you came here to BP.’ [Buckingham Palace]. Whoever comes with me, I will be here free from 16:00.’

The shift comes during what was supposed to be one of the first visits outside the United States for Epstein, who was sentenced to 13 months in prison for sex crimes mostly at his Palm Beach mansion after a love deal with prosecutors.

Last month, Epstein offered to set Andrew up for dinner with a 26-year-old Russian woman who was ‘smart, beautiful and trustworthy’ and said: ‘She has your email.’

The prince, who was 50 at the time, said he would be ‘delighted to see her’. And he cheerfully asked the convicted child sex predator, whose house arrest had ended a few days ago: ‘Is it nice to be free?’

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There are also new emails regarding former Duchess of York Sarah and Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie; among them are images from Andrew’s electronic Christmas cards. Several emails describe Sarah’s well-recorded debts, which she helped pay off by receiving money from Epstein. In an email sent in August 2009, she appears to thank him for being ‘the brother I always wished for’.

In another email, Ms Ferguson calls Mr Epstein ‘my dear wonderful and special friend’ and ‘a legend’.

Maxwell, Epstein’s wife and Andrew’s longtime friend, is also referenced extensively in the documents. In an email to Andrew, he joked that “five gorgeous redheads” would now “have to play with ourselves” because the former duke said he should be spending time with his children instead of visiting “The Island”, thought to be Epstein’s private property in the US Virgin Islands.

It is revealed that in an August 2002 email exchange in which Andrew called himself the ‘Invisible Man’, the prince asked for forgiveness if he turned down Maxwell’s offer and went on holiday with his family.

‘I won’t take any offense whatsoever,’ he replies, but later jokes that a woman whose name has been redacted ‘the five other stunning redheads who come in now will have to play with ourselves.’

Elsewhere in the files, a 25-year-old masseuse who reportedly worked for Epstein in 1999 said she “didn’t feel good” about being asked to give Andrew a massage because she felt she was being asked to “do more.”

The files show that the unnamed woman submitted a statement to a special investigation team in 2021 that was sent to Maxwell’s defense team. She said: ‘I had only been with Jeffrey for a year.

‘I never saw him as a scary guy. There were no young girls. I saw Prince Andrew and Donald Trump. [Epstein] He asked me to give Prince Andrew a massage, but I didn’t feel very good about it. I wonder if you’re asking me to do more.’

Andrew and President Trump have consistently denied any wrongdoing. But the former prince’s comments in the Newsnight interview that ended in a car crash in November 2019 appeared stranger than ever following new emails in the files.

Everyone knows that he told Emily Maitlis that he went to New York in 2010 to ‘end his friendship’ with the convicted pedophile because it was ‘the right thing to do’.

But one of the newly released emails shows Andrew telling Epstein: ‘See you tomorrow afternoon. I’m really looking forward to seeing you and spending some time with you after such a long time.’ In another email a few days before they met in New York, Andrew wrote to his friend that he had “some interesting things to discuss and plan.”

Far from cutting ties with Epstein, the prince later wrote a ‘Merry Christmas’ email to ‘Dear J’, adding that it was wonderful to spend time with my ‘US family’, according to the documents.

But there was some potentially welcome news for Andrew regarding requests by American prosecutors to interview him as a witness to Epstein’s child sex crimes.

Epstein was found dead in his New York prison cell in 2019. His death was ruled a suicide by hanging.

A new email reveals an internal FBI memo after a prosecutor from the Southern District of New York complained in 2020 that Andrew had ‘zero cooperation’: ‘He is not a major part of our investigation.’

In another part of the files, the former prince expressed his ‘disappointment’ at not being able to go on holiday due to the 2003 Iraq War, which claimed the lives of 179 British personnel.

Less than two weeks after British troops were sent in to oust Saddam Hussein, Andrew whined: ‘I’d love to be able to escape.’ On 31 March that year he wrote to Maxwell: ‘The media would go crazy if it became known that I was out of the country while this war was going on. This slight caging makes me angry!’

Announcing the files, US deputy attorney general Todd Blanche compared the amount of evidence examined to ‘two Eiffel Towers’ worth of material. He insisted the Justice Department had not protected Mr Trump despite its ‘hunger or thirst for information’.