Stern-faced Prince Andrew breaks cover as he is seen for the first time since Virginia Giuffre's crash that left his sex abuse accuser claiming she would be dead in days

A stern-faced Prince Andrew has been spotted retired riding successful Windsor aft a week successful which his accuser Virginia Giuffre dominated headlines erstwhile she claimed she had 'four days to live' pursuing a autobus crash.

The disgraced Duke of York, 65, was seen with a pistillate companion connected his play thrust appearing somewhat distracted portion dressed each successful navy blue.

It comes aft Ms Giuffre, 41, took to societal media to assertion she had terrible injuries and conscionable days to unrecorded aft a clang successful Australia.

Ms Giuffre, who won a multimillion-pound payout from Prince Andrew aft claiming she was trafficked to person enactment with him astatine the property of 17, told her Instagram followers connected Sunday that she lone had 'four days to live' aft suffering kidney nonaccomplishment successful the crash.

'I won't bore anyone with the details but I deliberation it important to enactment that erstwhile a schoolhouse autobus operator comes astatine you driving 110km arsenic we were slowing for a crook that nary substance what your car is made of it mightiness arsenic good beryllium a tin can,' she wrote successful the post.

She aboriginal said via a spokesperson that the photograph of her with a bruised look and the accompanying station had been posted connected Instagram 'in error', and was lone expected to beryllium disposable connected her backstage Facebook account. 

The autobus operator astatine the bosom of the story, Ross Munns, was speedy to quality Ms Giuffre's account, saying that the clang happened aft helium had followed a slow-moving achromatic car for 3 kilometres earlier deciding to overtake erstwhile it went nether 75kmh.

The crash, which happened connected Monday past week, progressive a small achromatic Toyota Highlander, driven by a 71-year-old pistillate who helium believed to beryllium Ms Giuffre's carer.

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