ANDREW'S BLACKMAIL BUNGLE!

Palace fixers prepped secret dossier on Giuffre

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The prince reportedly asked a police bodyguard to dig up information on Virginia after she leveled sex abuse accusations against him

IN A blockbuster investigation, The National ENQUIRER has exclusively obtained a top-secret dossier intended to smear Prince Andrew's late sex accuser, Virginia Giuffre, and salvage the scandal-scarred royal's reputation.

Sources say the weaponized file was prepared by palace fixers with extremely close ties to British royals determined to whitewash the black-sheep prince's links to the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

"This is the typical palace playbook," reveals a highly placed insider. "In public, the rule is to never complain, never explain, but behind closed doors the ruthless royals will stop at nothing to cover up their misdeeds and silence their critics."