Palace issues second denial over Andrew sex claims

Buckingham Palace has issued a second denial that the Duke of York had sexual contact with a woman who claims she was forced to have sex with him when she was under age.

It comes after several Sunday newspapers published comments by Virginia Roberts and identified her as the woman who reportedly named Andrew in US court documents related to a convicted paedophile.

The palace initially said “any suggestion of impropriety with under-age minors” by the Duke was “categorically untrue”.