Prince Andrew is heading into legal battle with guns-a-blazing.
The Duke of York was seen at the Queen’s sprawling Balmoral Estate in Scotland, leisurely aiming his shotgun in the air Friday and hobnobbing with international royalty of questionable character, according to reports out of the UK, even as he’s scheduled to face a hearing on sex assault charges in Manhattan Federal Court on Monday.
“This is so brazen it is unbelievable,” a source told The UK Sun. “Prince Andrew is carrying on like nothing has happened and as if he hasn’t got a care in the world.”
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, 33, one of the women in the middle of the Jeffrey Epstein sex scandal, filed a lawsuit against Prince Andrew last month, claiming the embattled royal bad boy abused her three times when she was under 18.
The prince’s legal team is feverishly working to avoid the court appearance and may even boycott the hearing.
But as The Post has reported, Cesar Sepulveda filed an affidavit in Guiffre’s federal lawsuit, confirming that he had served the papers to Andrew at his Royal Lodge home on Aug. 27.
The Crown Prince of Bahrain, who is linked to human rights abuses in his own country, was among those who reportedly joined the Duke at his shooting party on the 550-acre Balmoral Estate.
“It has been bad enough that he appears to have been seeking refuge at Balmoral, where the Queen is trying to have quiet time after a tough year,” the royal source told The Sun. “But to host a shooting party, with some dubious guests shows disrespect to the monarchy. And it is also tone deaf as if he does not care about what is going on with the legal case.”