The Duke of York is due to give evidence under oath next month as part of the US civil sex assault case against him. Andrew will face a deposition on 10 March in London, in what has been described as a neutral location. A source close to the royal said his accuser, Virginia Giuffre, had not yet committed to a date or location for her deposition “despite repeated requests”. The news of Andrew’s deposition date, first reported by the Telegraph, comes on the eve of the Queen’s platinum jubilee. On Sunday, the monarch will become the first British sovereign to reach 70 years on the throne. Andrew’s deposition will be conducted by Giuffre’s lawyers, David Boies and Sigrid McCawley, and is expected to last two days, according to the Telegraph. Giuffre is suing the duke for damages in her home country of the US, claiming she was trafficked by disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, Andrew’s friend and a convicted sex offender, to have sex with the royal when she was 17, a minor under US law, at Ghislaine Maxwell’s London home in the early 2000s. The duke is also alleged to have sexually abused Giuffre during a visit to Epstein’s private island, Little St James, and on a separate occasion at the financier’s Manhattan mansion. Andrew has strenuously denied all allegations. A source close to him said: “We agreed to voluntarily produce the duke for a deposition on 10 March. Despite repeated requests, Ms Giuffre still hasn’t committed to a date or location for her deposition.” The Telegraph reported that those due to give depositions after Andrew include the royal’s former assistant, Robert Olney, and Shukri Walker, who claims to have seen Andrew in the Tramp nightclub. Last month, court documents revealed that US judge Lewis A Kaplan had written letters to the senior master of the Queen’s bench division in the UK to request assistance in acquiring evidence for the civil claim filed by Giuffre. The judge asked for Olney to be questioned on topics such as Andrew’s communications with Maxwell, Epstein and Giuffre, and his travel to Epstein’s homes. In a separate letter to the high court, Kaplan also requested testimony from Walker on questions about the presence of the duke and Giuffre at Tramp nightclub in March 2001 and any interactions the pair had. The civil sex assault trial is scheduled to take place between September and December.