Prince Andrew could face a civil trial by late 2022 in a lawsuit accusing the British royal family figure of sexually abusing a Jeffrey Epstein accuser when she was 17 years old, a Manhattan federal judge said Wednesday.

The case, filed in August, alleged that the Duke of York had forced the plaintiff, Virginia Giuffre, to engage in sex acts during Prince Andrew’s visit to Epstein’s New York City mansion.

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