Buckingham Palace's denials of "any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors" on the part of Prince Andrew dominate front pages, which recount allegations made in US court papers.

The Daily Mail prints five pages on the subject, including detailed claims made by an unnamed woman in the civil suit against the American government, over its prosecution of a financier accused of involvement in sex trafficking. They include allegations that she was forced to have sex with the prince in London, New York and in the Caribbean. As the Sun reports, Buckingham Palace has described the claims as "categorically untrue".

The prince is not party to proceedings in the Florida court but is named as part of evidence relating to the wider case of alleged trafficking by Jeffrey Epstein. The Mail points out that Andrew remained "chummy" with Epstein even after the American was convicted of abusing underage girls. "Three years after Epstein's downfall in 2008, the friends were photographed strolling together in New York's Central Park," the paper says, adding that the subsequent embarrassment cost the prince his job as a UK trade envoy.

This was not the first time Andrew's judgement had been called into question, says the Daily Mirror's Chris Bucktin as he describes the prince's lunch with a "notorious" member of the former Tunisian regime and a holiday with a Libyan gun smuggler.

"In his decade as trade ambassador he cost the taxpayer nearly £4m on 76 foreign trips, not including the cost of bodyguards," says the Daily Express, recalling his nickname of "Airmiles Andy". It adds: "On one three-day visit abroad he spent £60,000 of taxpayers' cash to rent a private jet."

Some papers focus on others named in the court papers, with the Independent chronicling Epstein's rise from a tutor and son of a Brooklyn parks department worker to Wall Street high-flyer who left to set up an investment house for billionaires. "Epstein emerged as a jet-setting power player. His philanthropy brought him into contact with physicists and presidents alike," the paper says.

However, the Times says Epstein is accused of supplying under-age girls to high-profile contacts so he could gather information to use in blackmail. "The American financier courted political and business leaders, royalty and celebrities. They were invited to his nine-storey house on the Upper East Side in Manhattan, his house in Palm Beach, Florida, and a private island in the Caribbean," it says.

(BBC)