An internal inquiry by Pizza Express found no evidence to confirm whether Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor visited its Woking branch on the night he was accused of assaulting Virginia Giuffre, according to a BBC Newsnight report on July 6, 2026.
The restaurant chain investigated the validity of the former prince's alibi following his 2019 interview.
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Corporate records from 2001 were unavailable, and the branch manager at the time had left the company.
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The Metropolitan Police recently refused to confirm or deny if protection officers accompanied him to the restaurant, citing national security.
This drew criticism from Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey amid ongoing public protests regarding the handling of the case.
Mountbatten-Windsor had said in the interview, "I'd taken Beatrice to a Pizza Express in Woking."
He further detailed the timeline, explaining that family routines were structured around childcare arrangements during that period.
"This has all been worked out by my staff, who've looked at the diary and everything else," he said.
He noted that his former wife was traveling in the United States at the time of the alleged incident, leaving him responsible for their children.
"The duchess [Sarah Ferguson] was away, I think, United States somewhere.
And we had a very simple rule: at that stage, the children had one or other of us for all, most of the, well, as often as we could manage," he said.
