Pizza Express Found No Evidence for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's 2001 Woking Visit Claim
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Updated · bbc.co.uk · Jul 6
Pizza Express Found No Evidence for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's 2001 Woking Visit Claim
2 articles · Updated · bbc.co.uk · Jul 6
Summary
Pizza Express's 2019 internal inquiry found no records or witness evidence that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor visited its Woking branch on 10 March 2001, but also nothing disproving the claim.
The chain searched surviving records from the period and tried to contact former staff and local managers; the branch manager from 2001 had already left the business and could not be interviewed.
The Woking visit became central after Mountbatten-Windsor told BBC Newsnight in 2019 that he took Princess Beatrice to Pizza Express that afternoon, countering Virginia Giuffre's allegation that they met in London and later had sex.
BBC Newsnight said it also found no independent record of anyone seeing him there, while the Metropolitan Police refused to say whether royal protection officers accompanied him, prompting criticism from Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey.