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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Kevin Rawlinson

Pizza Express ‘held inquiry into former prince Andrew’s visit to Woking branch’

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in a dark suit and yellow tie walks past an iron fence with greenery behind him
Mountbatten-Windsor claimed he took his daughter to a birthday party at the Woking branch of Pizza Express. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP

Pizza Express held an internal inquiry to investigate Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s visit to its Woking branch, as he claimed he did on the day he was alleged to have had sex with a teenage victim of Jeffrey Epstein 20 miles away in central London, it has been reported.

According to sources who spoke to the BBC, senior management at the restaurant chain held the investigation because they felt it was in the public interest to test the alibi the former Duke of York had offered. The broadcaster reported that the company had found neither evidence he had been to the restaurant in Surrey, nor evidence to definitively say he had not.

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