James PaTTERSON | Prince Andrew had long since sold the home, which he and everything. I hope my ati Sarah had received as a gift after their 1986 wedding. He got into under oath about the cont: hot water when it was revealed that the buyer, a Kazakh billion- According to several r aire named Timur Kulibayev, had paid three million pounds to the prince, asking him more than the home’s asking price. Reportedly, Buckingham F For her part, Sarah Ferguson announced that she was mov- “I knew he was a men ing into a thirteen-million-pound ski chalet in Switzerland. just called him ‘Andy,” Ro It was a fitting end to the long, sometimes sordid story of the news from Maxwell that I- prince’s marriage. But it was not the end of the scandals that : day, Epstein told me I was seemed always to be swirling around the prince. | me ‘to exceed’ everything I On January 2, 2015, Virginia Roberts's allegations about her . whatever Prince Andrew w relationship with the prince—and the photo of him with his | Signing her name to the arm around Roberts's waist—appeared in the press. Prince ] under penalty of perjury th Andrew was forced to cut short a skiing holiday to confer with That spring, Prince Anc his mother, the queen, and to issue a statement denying Rob- . | in South Florida ordered t erts’s allegations—a step that was widely seen as being without 4 stricken from civil-court re precedent for a member of the royal family. pf ceedings, these lurid detai That same month, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, q q cluded. Once again, Buckin Switzerland, the prince was again forced to “reiterate and to reaf- a ___ prince’s involvement in any firm” the repeated denials made by Buckingham Palace that he P { taining to Roberts. But tha had any sort of sexual relationship with Roberts, who had a | BBC program Panorama wa announced in papers filed at the start of the year that Prince 4 _ tion into the prince’s dealing Andrew has a “sexual interest in feet.” 4 As of this writing, the in “My