Prince Andrew’s Accuser Virginia Roberts Scores Victory After U.K. High Court Agrees To Serve Queen Elizabeth’s Son

Prince Andrew‘s accuser Virginia Roberts scored a small victory after the U.Okay. Extreme Court docket docket dominated in favor of serving federal papers to Queen Elizabeth‘s son.

English judges have agreed to serve Andrew with papers in reference to Roberts’ bombshell sexual abuse lawsuit, whereby she claims Jeffrey Epstein pressured her to have intercourse with the royal member of the household when she was merely 17 years earlier.

In step with Fox Information, Roberts’ attorneys have provided the extreme courtroom with the required documentation to maneuver forward.

The office has “accepted the request for service under the Hague Service Convention,” a advisor suggested the outlet. “The licensed course of has not however been served nonetheless the Extreme Court docket docket will now take steps to serve under the Convention till service is organized by settlement between the occasions.”

Roberts’ attorneys claimed they’d already served the Duke of York on August 27 after many failed makes an try; nonetheless, Andrew’s workforce argued in every other case.

All through a pre-trial listening to, held telephonically on Monday, the determine suggested his accuser’s attorneys they’d one week to find out whether or not or not they wanted to get the U.Okay. authorities involved with the serving course of.

Roberts’ lawyer David Boies insisted he did all of the items correct nonetheless welcomed the Extreme Court docket docket’s involvement.

“Our view, your honor, is that at this degree that (the need for the courtroom to intervene) won’t be wanted, that now we now have accurately served him,” Boies suggested the determine. “If the courtroom had been to seek out out for some motive that our service was defective … we’d ask the courtroom to order numerous service, inside the curiosity of transferring the case alongside.”

As Radar reported, Roberts filed a lawsuit in direction of Andrew in August. She claims he sexually assaulted her when she was merely an adolescent in New York Metropolis after an introduction from Epstein and his right-hand woman and alleged intercourse trafficking co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell.

Inside the paperwork, she alleges “rape inside the first diploma” and claims she was “pressured to have sexual exercise with Prince Andrew in direction of her will.”