It emerged last week that the disgraced Duke of York, 64, had kept in contact with the late serial sex trafficker for longer than he initially led on.

They were photographed walking through Central Park at the time, with the images published in both British and U.S. tabloids."I went to see him," Andrew told the BBC, "and I was doing a number of other things in New York at the time and we had an opportunity to go for a walk in the park and that was the conversation coincidentally that was photographed.