Prince Andrew secretly met his friend Ghislaine Maxwell at Buckingham Palace in early June – just a fortnight after US prosecutors announced they were reopening their inquiry into the activities of convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, their mutual friend.

Ms Maxwell, the daughter of disgraced newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell, has been accused of procuring underage girls for Epstein. She denies the claims.

Andrew, 59, met Maxwell on June 6 inside the Prince's private Palace quarters, and she is said to have brought four other people along with her.

'They were all smartly dressed and looked very official... They stayed for about two hours.

'It seems very likely they would have been discussing the fallout from Epstein's misdemeanours and what they planned to do about it,' a source told The Sun.

Ghislaine Maxwell was conspicuously absent from publicity photographs taken during the high-profile event, and all reference to her was deleted from the rally's website.

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Source: Dailymail.co.uk (excerpt)