BRAZEN Prince Andrew beamed and waved as he ended his three-week Balmoral hideaway.
The Duke of York had been hiding out in the Queen’s 50,000-acre Scottish estate to avoid US lawyers trying to serve sex abuse lawsuit papers on him.
But the bold prince smiled and waved at passersby as he ventured out for the first time since beginning his voluntary self-isolation earlier this month.
On Friday, lawyers officially conceded that the legal papers relating to Virginia Roberts’ sex assault claims have been served to the Duke’s legal team.
Virginia – a victim of paedophile Jeffrey Epstein – is attempting to sue the Duke in a New York court after alleging she was forced to have sex with him three times when she was 17.
Andrew has always vehemently denied the claims.
The duke today left Balmoral at 10am to travel to Windsor, where he is expected to meet his new granddaughter for the first time.
His daughter Beatrice, 33 gave birth to her first child with husband Edo Mapelli Mozzi this month.
Ex-wife Sarah Ferguson rushed to London after Beatrice went into labour.
In a joint stipulation filed on Friday in a US federal court, Andrew’s attorneys confirmed they had received copies of the complaint and summons.
The legal papers were signed by attorneys from both sides of the case which set the date for the service of process – when Andrew’s team was officially notified that the suit was filed – as of September 21.
Under normal procedure, Andrew’s legal team would have 21 days to respond to this bringing the deadline to October 12.
However, the new request from the Prince’s legal team has asked the deadline be pushed forward to October 29 – something Roberts’ team agreed to in return that Andrew’s team would not challenge the service of process.
Sources told the Daily Mail that attorneys from both sides spoke by phone to sort out the agreement on September 21.
The day after it was revealed that Andrew, who is ninth in line to the throne, had accepted the papers after they were emailed to the Duke of York’s US lawyer.
David Boies, Virginia’s lawyer, confirmed to The Celeb Report that his firm served the legal papers to Andrew Brettler by FedEx and email.
