The ABC sex scandal. Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge were used as pawns in the cover-up of a transatlantic paedophile network.

Virginia Giuffre (nee Roberts).

Virginia Giuffre (nee Roberts), the victim at the centre of the ABC scandal, took her own life in April 2025, but not before completing her memoirs. They were published in October 2025 and provide further insights into the ABC scandal.

The affair involved the exploitation of Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge, as pawns deployed in the cover up of child sex trafficking by Buckingham Palace.

A dirty trick operations of unprecedented mendacity is presently underway to sabotage the sale of Giuffre’s book. See Spoiler alert.

In 2015 officials at Buckingham Palace bartered access to royal couple, as a threat and a bribe to ABC TV, in the US, in return for the concealment of the now infamous child abuse network involving Andrew Mountbatten Windsor which was run by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

The press in the UK has ignored the depth of this scandal for over five years. They are not disturbed by the fact that officials at Buckingham Palace let the Epstein vice ring continue in existence for three additional years.

No one at the Palace has been punished.

Virginia Guiffre ultimately ended up committing suicide leaving three children behind her.

The best case scenario for the Royal couple is that they were dupes with little or no control over their own lives and unaware of what was being done in their names.

Amy Robach, the ABC TV News anchor, interviewed Virginia Roberts in 2015, three years before the Jeffrey Epstein scandal (Phase 2) erupted. Robach was not allowed to broadcast anything Roberts revealed to her by her superiors at ABC.

Roberts had been flown by ABC from Colorado to New York City with her family, all of whom were put up at the Ritz-Carlton hotel. She was then interviewed by Robach and her colleague, Jim Hill, about Epstein.

In her memours, she described how she flew to New York from Denver with her three children for the interview with Amy Robach. She brought them so they would appreciate

‘why Mommy was always either on the phone or, too often, leaving on a plane.

‘For probably 90 minutes, I told Robach everything I knew about how Epstein and [Ghislaine] Maxwell had organised their sex trafficking ring.

Giuffre ‘told [Robach] the names of several men’ to whom she had been trafficked including Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, and ‘wept’ when she recalled certain instances of alleged abuse. We now know that one of them was a former prime minister who left her bleeding from her mouth, vagina and anus after raping her.

This is a small part of what the Palace covered up.

Is it conceivable that the Palace officials responsible for the plot acted without the knowledge of the Royal Family?

Who were they?

Where are they now?

Why are they being protected?

Are they in a position to blackmail King Charles and Prince William about the scandal?

What did Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip know?

What did the then Prince Charles know?

What did William and Kate know?

Despite the trauma of disclosing some of what she had endured, after the 90-minute interview in New York, Virginia Giuffre felt, ‘There was a celebratory feeling in the room’.

Then nothing happened. According to Giuffre:

‘Finally, someone from the network told my legal team that because I’d told Robach about being trafficked to Prince Andrew, the network had to reach out to Buckingham Palace and an attorney for Epstein.

‘Why that was causing such delays was unclear. .. But for whatever reason, ABC never aired the interview.’

In late August 2019, Robach was captured by a live microphone in her TV studio describing her disappointment to colleagues. A recording of this off-air moment leaked. On it she can be heard complaining:

Robach continued to explain that one of the reasons an interview with Roberts was not broadcast was because:

After Robach’s outpouring was broadcast online by the Project Veritas website, an ABC ‘source’ claimed that the company had ‘never stopped investigating the story’ and that:

A lot of broadcasters can probably empathize. We do have to run everything past standards and practices and there are times when interviews can’t air. We needed time to corroborate details, and we were unable to verify a lot of Virginia’s claims.

There cannot be a village idiot anywhere on the planet who believed this drivel from ABC.

The company did not let one of the most important stories of this century slip through its fingers because it was unable to back it up. Absolutely nothing changed over the next three years when the story finally broke.

The claims made by Roberts have since been corroborated by a number of witnesses. Roberts knew a great number of them. She even set up an organisation to support them long before the scandal erupted whereby there was a cohort of available witnesses with corroborative stories, documentation and photographs.

ABC’s excuse simply does not hold water. There is something deeply sinister about this scandal. Robach was undoubtedly telling the truth when she raised the prospect of a boycott of ABC by Buckingham Palace. Nonetheless, while the top brass at ABC may be hard boiled and ruthless, it is difficult to believe they would allow children be raped indefinitely just to secure a few minutes of footage with the Royal couple. So why did ABC really protect Epstein?

An undoubted factor must be his much vaunted links to powerful intelligence services.

Alex Acosta

Alex Acosta prosecuted Epstein in 2008. He wanted to prosecute Epstein on serious child sex trafficking charges but was forced to drop them on orders from the CIA. The Agency told him Epstein worked for the CIA. Epstein also probably worked with Mossad.

Robach issued a statement after the ABC leak was broadcast online which was less strident than her off-the-cuff outburst in the TV studio. It is reproduced in full below. You can make your own minds up whether it feels authentic or reeks of coercive pressure from above.

It is difficult – but not impossible – to believe that Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge were consulted in advance about the threats which were made to ABC in ‘a million different ways’. Yet, unless they are still helpless pawns hermetically sealed from what is going on around them at Buckingham Palace, they surely know by now about the threats issued by their courtiers. Assuming they were not part of the cover- up, they cannot be happy that media access to them was bartered to protect a child abuse network, even if it was not the sole or decisive factor in the cover-up at ABC TV.

Despite the Royal couple’s presumed discomfort, no one at Buckingham Palace has been dismissed nor disciplined.

The threats from the Palace enabled Epstein and his associates to groom, traffic and abuse young girls for a further three years.

Not a single Royal correspondent has ever asked King Charles to let us know if he was kept in the dark about the threats made by his courtiers back in 2015.

Nor is anyone asking Prince William: {i} when he became aware of the ABC suppression scandal; {ii} what he has been told by the staff at Buckingham Palace about it; {iii} what he believes to be the truth of the affair, and {iv} what, if anything, he is doing about it.

Most remiss of all, no one is asking him if he has demanded sight of the ABC file kept by his courtiers. There must be a string of emails and memos. One suspects Robach has copies so it would be a brave pursuivant at the Palace who would destroy them.

Prince Harry has been silent on the issue too. Hence, it is still a mystery whether or not he ever discussed it with his brother or sister-in-law.

Sadly, this is only the tip of an iceberg of child abuse and cover-up which has been afloat for decades. It is one which involves Royal participation at the highest level. Children on both sides of the Irish Sea have been abused. Lord Louis Mountbatten was a key figure in a sordid Anglo-Irish Vice Ring which preyed on children. The network had links that extended to the US. See The Mountbatten dossier, an ebook by David Burke.

One of the Americans involved in the Anglo-Irish Vice Ring was Roy Cohn, an infamous lawyer and mentor to Donald Trump. There is credible evidence which continues to emerge that Cohn was not merely a child rapist but also recorded influential figures while they were in the act of abusing children. Cohn did this in furtherance of a blackmail operation involving dark political and intelligence forces. Jeffrey Epstein performed a similar role for a later manifestation of the operation. The full sordid story can be read here: Collecting kompromat. [WebBook.]

The cover-up of Royal sex scandals is nothing new. Buckingham Palace concealed the extra marital activities of Prince Philip for decades. See Prince Philip’s illicit sex life was monitored by Soviet spies.

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