A former government adviser on Monday accused Britain's Prince Andrew of using a racial slur during an interview in 2012, adding to pressure on the royal following an interview to discuss his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Andrew used the slur in a discussion of the role of Britain's international trade department in 2012, Rohan Silva, who was then working in former prime minister David Cameron's office, wrote in the London Evening Standard.

"What about the trade department? Could it be doing a better job?" Silva, now a columnist for the newspaper, said he asked Andrew.

"Well, if you'll pardon the expression, that really is the nigger in the woodpile," he quoted Andrew as replying.
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