Prince Andrew is spending time with ex-wife Sarah Ferguson.
In his first public appearance since Virginia Giuffre—one of his and Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers of sexual abuse—died by suicide, the younger brother of King Charles III was photographed driving from Royal Lodge, his home in Windsor, on April 27 with the Duchess of York in the passenger seat.
Indeed, Andrew’s casual outing comes just three days after Giuffre’s family shared the tragic news, per NBC News, that the 41-year-old died by suicide on her farm in Neergabby, Australia. And her loved ones attributed many of the struggles that ultimately led to her demise to the alleged sexual abuse she endured as a minor.
"It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night," her family said in a recent statement to the outlet. "She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking."
"Virginia was a fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse and sex trafficking," the statement continued. "She was the light that lifted so many survivors. In the end, the toll of abuse is so heavy that it became unbearable for Virginia to handle its weight."
Back in 2021, Giuffre alleged that she had been trafficked by Epstein and subsequently sexually abused by the British royal when she was just 17 years old. And while Epstein died by suicide in a New York jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, Giuffre filed a federal lawsuit against the royal. Andrew settled the suit the following year, per NBC News, and has denied they’ve had sex.
“I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady,” Andrew said during a BBC Newsnight interview at the time, “none whatsoever.”
But even after Giuffre—who shares three kids with estranged husband Robert Giuffre—passed away, her brother Danny Wilson continued to advocate for her and shared further insight into why his sister was so steadfast in speaking out about her alleged abuse.
"Her biggest push was, 'If I don’t do this, nobody’s going to do it,'" he told NBC News of Giuffre, who had also suffered a devastating car crash one month before her death. "She was in real physical pain—suffered from renal failure. But I think that the mental pain was worse."
And until the very end, Wilson emphasized that his sister never wavered in how she "pushed so hard to snuff the evil out" of the world.