King Charles is in good spirits heading to Sunday service with a friend while Queen Camilla stays at home – as the royal family deals with the fallout from Prince Andrew’s claims in unsealed Epstein court documents

King Charles was in good spirits on his way to Sunday service at church this morning as he appeared to deal with the humiliation of his brother Prince Andrew following the fallout over documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein.

The 74-year-old monarch was in good spirits as he walked to St Mary Magdalene Church on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk after it was reported that sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell had been ordered to search her phone and computer for phrases containing Prince Andrew’s name and the words ‘sex toy’ and ‘erotic’.

When the king walked to church a month ago, where the royal family attended the Christmas service with Prince Andrew in tow, he was accompanied by friends including Lady Susan Hussey – while Queen Camilla, who releases her reading podcast tomorrow, appeared to take the morning free.

Explosive court documents revealed how Maxwell’s lawyers, under orders from a US court, were ordered to search all her electronic devices for any mention of the Prince, other acquaintances of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and a string of vile words.

These include ‘Prince’, ‘Andrew’, ‘Duke’, York’, ‘Royal’, ‘minor’, ‘massage’, ‘slave’, ‘sex’, ‘nipple’ and ‘dildo’, according to the damning legal papers . It comes after other claims in the documents that the Duke of York took part in an ‘underage orgy’ and enjoyed daily massages at the billionaire’s lair.

Despite the revelations, and amid mounting pressure on the king to evict his brother from the 30-room Royal Lodge where he currently resides in Windsor, Charles was beaming and waving as he headed to church this morning.

He appeared to shrug off the furor surrounding his brother’s name this week after a US judge ordered documents relating to cases brought against the late Epstein to be unsealed.

After Prince Andrew, who has always denied wrongdoing, was mentioned several times in the newspapers, this was reported by the newspaper Telegraph that the King is ‘preparing to stop paying for security’ at the Royal Lodge in Windsor, where the Duke of York is currently staying.

New details of a hugely embarrassing search – part of a 2015 defamation case brought against Maxwell by Andrews accuser Virginia Giuffre, née Roberts – are revealed in a trove of 130 documents, totaling more than 1,300 pages, released this weekend released.

It is not known what the search revealed, with Maxwell’s lawyers claiming it was a ‘wild goose chase’. The case was settled before it went to trial.

Last night a source close to the Duke of York told the Mail on Sunday how Andrew had been left reeling by the lurid new claims.

“He doesn’t have the emotional bandwidth to deal with this,” the source said. ‘He has locked himself in a room and has no idea how to react. He’s devastated.’

The fuss surrounding Andrew, who is still eighth in line to the throne, does not appear to have abated after hundreds of documents were made public in three days.

The court files were sealed in 2017 but published after requests from media companies.

They include claims that the Prince knew about Epstein’s sex trafficking, committed “acts of sexual abuse,” enjoyed daily massages and participated in an “underage orgy.” Andrew has vehemently and repeatedly denied all allegations against him.

Scotland Yard said last week it would not rule out allegations of sexual assault against Prince Andrew, while the release of the court documents would have strengthened the king’s decision that his brother will never be allowed to resume his royal duties.

A series of documents released in the early hours yesterday revealed a bitter legal battle between Giuffre and Maxwell’s lawyers over a 2016 court order for a search of Maxwell’s ‘electronic media’.

In a letter to Maxwell’s legal team, Meredith Schultz, one of Ms. Giuffre’s lawyers, demanded that Maxwell’s email and iCloud accounts be combed, along with her computers, phones and tablets.

Ms Schultz then listed 368 words to look for, including Prince Andrew, his initials ‘PA’ and ‘Clinton’ – a reference to former US President Bill Clinton. There is no evidence that Clinton did anything wrong.

The list also includes words that are sexually explicit or suggestive of abuse, including “erotic,” “masturbate,” “servitude,” “youth,” “schoolgirl” and “pedophile.”

Maxwell’s attorney Laura Menninger later objected to “the sheer number” of search terms, complaining that “conducting a search on Ms. Maxwell’s devices using all 368 terms will take more than a week.”

She emphasized how difficult it is to search for common words such as “bed”, “lingerie” and “bath” and the names of lawyers.

Ms Giuffre claimed she was forced to have sex with the prince three times when she was 17, including in a bath at Maxwell’s London mansion in 2001. The claims have been repeatedly and strenuously denied by Andrew.

Mrs. Menninger complains in one letter that Giuffre had sent Maxwell “on a costly, time-consuming and troublesome wild goose chase that yielded not even one quill.” It’s time to call off the hunt.’

However, the legal documents reveal that in order to comply with the court order, a search was conducted for 110 words – including Andrew’s name and the sexually explicit words.

The search led to the discovery of approximately 9,000 documents and messages, although it is not known whether Andrew appears in them.

The latest cache of documents shows Maxwell’s continued efforts to find new women and girls to satisfy Epstein, including having threesomes with other women.

They also reveal how Tony Figueroa, Giuffre’s ex-boyfriend, claimed that Maxwell would call him to ask if he had found girls to take to Epstein and how Giuffre, Maxwell and Epstein “were all intimate with each other multiple times” .

Figueroa was paid between $200 and $300 for each new girl he brought to meet Epstein at the financier’s $18 million mansion in Palm Beach, Florida.

In a separate statement, Rodriguez told investigators that there were “many photos” of Andrew proudly displayed at Epstein’s mansion, dubbed “the house of horrors.”

Meanwhile, Johanna Sjoberg – who was recruited by Maxwell when she was a 20-year-old student – ​​said in another document that she was paid £200 for each massage from the couple, which was increased by £100 when she did something sexual for Epstein. .

In her 2016 deposition, Sjoberg recalled giving Maxwell between five and 10 massages – with the disgraced socialite lying naked under a towel.

Asked if Maxwell had ever been naked or topless at a pool, Ms. Sjoberg replied: “I don’t remember. She was naked when she went swimming in the ocean.”

Maxwell was convicted in December 2021 of sex trafficking and recruiting teenage girls for Epstein. The financier committed suicide in prison just weeks after his arrest in July 2019 for sex trafficking.

Prince Andrew did not respond to a request for comment.

Additional reporting by Daisy Graham-Brown and Sam Merriman.