Prince Andrew's reputation has taken another hammer blow with newspaper front pages revealing an email suggesting that he was in contact with the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein much longer than he previously claimed.
They are intensely damaging allegations for Prince Andrew.
The reported email casts direct doubt on his version of events in his BBC Newsnight interview that he'd cut off ties with Epstein after meeting him in New York in December 2010, where the pair had been photographed together.
The intimate tone of the email Andrew is alleged to have sent - "We are in this together" - also undermines attempts to suggest they were never close.
Scandal hasn't exactly been a stranger to the Duke of York.
