Prince Andrew: ‘No evidence’ of Pizza Express visit

Investigations by the BBC and Pizza Express have found “no evidence” that Prince Andrew visited the chain’s Woking branch.

In his notorious 2019 BBC interview, Andrew claimed he couldn’t have had sex with Epstein victim, Virginia Giuffre, on 10 March 2001, as she alleged, as he had been at Pizza Express. By contrast, witness Shukri Walker was prepared to give sworn evidence that she saw Giuffre with the then-prince in a London nightclub.

Andrew eventually paid Giuffre an estimated £12 million to settle out of court.

Prince Andrew’s claims interrogated

In January, the US government released further files from the investigation into serial paedophile, trafficker and Israeli spy, Jeffrey Epstein. This, and Andrew’s ensuing arrest, prompted the BBC’s Newsnight programme to revisit its investigations.

The programme contacted police authorities asking for records of royal protection officers and even tried to track down customers who ate at Pizza Express that day. The Met Police evaded the question, giving a suspect ‘neither confirm nor deny’ response.

The chain’s bosses also held an internal investigation, searching its records and consulting staff who worked at the Woking branch on the night in question.

As the BBC put it:

BBC Newsnight has now discovered the pizza chain investigated the claim and found no evidence that he had, or had not, been there. Our research has also found no record of anyone seeing him there on the night in 2001.

Virginia Giuffre was found dead in April 2025 having taken her own life.

Andrew and his family continue to rake in cash and live rent-free in ‘royal’ properties. Subsequent evidence has shown that the royals knew about Andrew’s dodgy ‘trade envoy’ dealings years before they became public.

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