Friends of Prince Andrew have said the prince and his family are “completely unsurprised” that his sex accuser, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, made a string of questionable claims about being in a high speed bus crash that had brought her to death’s door.

Virginia Giuffre, a prominent Jeffrey Epstein accuser who alleged Prince Andrew abused her, said in an Instagram post she got into a car accident with a school bus and was now in hospital.

The 41-year-old shared a gruesome hospital selfie via Instagram over the weekend, telling her followers she had been hit by a bus.

Giuffre, the American woman who accused Prince Andrew of sexual assault, faces growing scrutiny over claims she was involved in a near-fatal car accident in Australia, where she now lives.

Virginia Giuffre, who settled a sexual abuse case against Prince Andrew in 2022, denied violating a family violence restraining order granted to her estranged husband before her recent accident.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who won a $14m settlement from Prince Andrew over sex abuse claims, was reportedly due in court in Australia, accused of breaching a family violence restraining order, ten days before she falsely said she was so badly injured in a bus crash that she had just four days to live.