Andrew hires top lawyer to fight under-age sex claims: Prince employs ‘grandfather of the bar’ to help fight allegations as he prepares to make first public appearance

Prince Andrew has enlisted the help of one of Britain’s top defence barristers after being accused of sleeping with an under-age ‘sex slave’, the Mail has learned.

The Duke of York faces extraordinary claims – which he strongly denies – that he had sex with a 17-year-old American girl who was being paid by his friend, the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

This week, he will attend the meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, his first public appearance since the allegations by Virginia Roberts in a US lawsuit .... http://www.dailymail.co.uk