Kevin Spacey claimed in his interview with Piers Morgan he had only ever met Prince Andrew once when he visited Buckingham Palace in September 2002. The 64-year-old actor went on to say: “I had never met him before and have not seen him since” after he was pictured with the royal and even snapped sitting next to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell on a throne. But the Mirror can reveal that is not the case - as just five months later the American Beauty star was pictured at a party at London’s Billingsgate Market following a benefit performance to raise funds for the Old Vic Theatre in February 2003, the same year Spacey was appointed artistic director, a role he held until 2015.
Speaking out about being pictured with Prince Andrew and Maxwell in 2002 when questioned about it on Piers Morgan Uncensored on Tuesday night, Spacey said he “wasn’t friends” with Prince Andrew and claimed to have only met him that once. Explaining how the Buckingham Palace pictures came about, he said: “Let me try to put it into context before I even get to that. In 2002, I got a call from President Clinton, who I had become friends with over many years, inviting me to come with him on an eight-day humanitarian trip that he was going to make to Africa and South Africa.
I thought it was an incredible opportunity. And apparently, he was not having great success with getting people to say yes, because it wasn't one night in New York, it was eight days in Africa and South Africa." H.
