Virginia Giuffre’s family say they are ‘deeply disappointed’ by the Met Police’s decision not to investigate the claims that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor tried to ‘dig up dirt’ on her.

The disgraced former prince was alleged to have passed Ms Giuffre’s social security number and date of birth to his taxpayer-funded bodyguard.

According to claims first published in the The Mail on Sunday in October, Andrew first handed over Ms Giuffre’s details to his close protection officer in 2011 and instructed him to find dirt on her as part of a smear campaign.

However the Met’s chief specialist crime commander said the force had not received any evidence to justify opening a probe.

She said: ‘Following recent reporting suggesting that Mr Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor asked his Met Police close protect

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