King Charles under pressure to punish Prince Andrew after he is named 69 times in Epstein documents

King Charles has been urged to finally “cut ties with his brother” after Prince Andrew was named a whopping 69 times in explosive new Epstein documents.

King Charles is under ­pressure to punish Prince Andrew and “lance the boil” after more lurid allegations of sexual abuse were branded the “final nail in the coffin”.

Andrew is mentioned 69 times in new US court papers naming associates of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The Prince, 63, plunged the royal family into a fresh scandal amid detailed claims he took part in an “underage orgy” and groped a woman’s breast while she sat in his lap like “Santa”.

The dossier released in New York includes claims an underage girl was told to give Andrew “whatever he demanded” while on Epstein’s private Caribbean resort on Little St James — dubbed “pedophile island”.

The Duke of York was stripped of his royal roles in shame and banished from public duty by Queen Elizabeth as he paid out millions of pounds to sex abuse accuser Virginia Giuffre, 40, two years ago.

But dad-of-two Andrew — who has always maintained his innocence — has “crept” back into royal life.

Prince Andrew has slowly crept back into royal life, pictured here at the King’s coronation in May. Picture: Odd Andersen/AFP

He appeared with the whole royal family on a Christmas Day walk to church in a surprise show of unity.

The court papers have led to calls for the King, 75, to take further action and force his brother from his 31-room Royal Lodge in Windsor and even remove his royal title.

Royal commentator and author Phil Dampier said: “This is the final nail in the coffin. If Andrew harboured any thoughts he might eventually come back this has destroyed these hopes.”

Writing in The Sun, Charles biographer and royal expert Robert Jobson says: “The King would be wise to cut ties completely with his brother.

“Andrew is a liability and this ­scandal is not going way.”

Norman Baker, former Lib Dem. Home Office minister, said: “This needs to be resolved once and for all and this boil needs to be lanced.”

The 1000 pages of legal documents discuss an alleged victim referred to as “Jane Doe 3” — believed to be Virginia Giuffre.

The files read: “Perhaps even more important to her role in Epstein’s sexual abuse ring, Maxwell had direct connections to other powerful individuals with whom she could connect Epstein.

“For instance, one such powerful individual Epstein forced Jane Doe #3 to have sexual relations with was a member of the British Royal Family, Prince Andrew (aka Duke of York).

“Jane Doe #3 was forced to have sexual relations with this prince when she was a minor in three separate geographical locations: in London (at Ghislaine Maxwell’s apartment), in New York, and on Epstein’s private island in the US Virgin Islands (in an orgy with numerous other under-aged girls).”

The files go on: “Epstein instructed Jane Doe #3 that she was to give the prince whatever he demanded and required Jane Doe #3 to report back to him on the details of the sexual abuse.”

All the allegations are vehemently denied by Prince Andrew.

King Charles is being urged to “cut ties” with his brother amid the latest update. Picture: Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images

The lurid descriptions appear in previously sealed files from Ms Giuffre’s defamation case against Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year jail term for procuring teenage girls for billionaire Epstein.

The files add: “Maxwell facilitated Prince Andrew’s acts of sexual abuse by acting as a ‘madame’ for Epstein, thereby assisting in internationally trafficking Jane Doe #3 (and numerous other young girls) for sexual purposes.”

Among the documents is testimony from Johanna Sjoberg, who was recruited by Maxwell at the age of 20 to work as a masseuse.

She describes meeting Ms Giuffre, Epstein, Andrew and Maxwell in Epstein’s New York townhouse.

In a deposition made in 2016, she said: “At one point, Ghislaine told me to come upstairs, and we went into a closet and pulled out the puppet, the caricature of Prince Andrew, and brought it down.

“And there was a little tag on the puppet that said ‘Prince Andrew’ on it, and that’s when I knew who he was. It looked like him. And she brought it down and presented it to him.

“And that was a great joke, because apparently it was a production from a show on BBC. And they decided to take a picture with it, in which Virginia and Andrew sat on a couch.

“They put the puppet on Virginia’s lap, and I sat on Andrew’s lap, and they put the puppet’s hand on Virginia’s breast, and Andrew put his hand on my breast, and they took a photo.”

Prince Andrew pictured with Virginia Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell. Picture: US District Court – Southern District of New York/AFP

Asked to provide further detail about how the three of them were seated, Ms Sjoberg said: “She (Virginia) might have been on his other knee, like Santa.”

Ms Sjoberg also explains how Virginia was “underage” because she was too young to go into Donald Trump’s casino in Atlantic City.

Ms Giuffre says she was 17 when she was trafficked to have sex with Prince Andrew.

She claims they had sex in a bath at Maxwell’s Mayfair townhouse after dancing with “sweating” Andrew in Faces nightclub.

The Duke denies ever meeting Ms Giuffre and used his infamous Newsnight interview in 2019 to issue an alibi claiming he was at Pizza Express in Woking at the time.

But despite the shocking revelations in the files, friends of Andrew claim they do not reveal anything new.

They believe the documents instead lay out in detail the “breadth and depth” of the relationship Epstein had with US establishment figures such as ­former US President Bill Clinton.

And they claim that Andrew’s “fleeting” association with Epstein has acted as a “distraction” and a “gift” to those who had much closer links to him.

Police dropped their investigation into Ms Giuffre’s allegations in October 2021.

Andrew paid Ms Giuffre millions of dollars in early 2022 to stop her sex abuse lawsuit going to trial.

The latest damaging allegations will be the worst possible start to the new year for King Charles, who tonight remained on holiday with Queen Camilla in the Scottish Highlands.

Charles now faces calls to “lance the boil” and stop Andrew from creeping back into royal life.

Nigel Cawthorne, author of Prince Andrew, Maxwell, Epstein and the Palace, said The Met should interview the Duke over the assault claims, which he denies.

Mr Cawthorne added: “He used the bank of mummy to get out of the Virginia Giuffre case to avoid going to America where he could have cleared his name.

“The police should investigate as there is plainly more evidence coming out in these documents.”

Prince Andrew and Buckingham Palace did not comment.

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