Lawyers for Prince Andrew argued Monday that a New York law that gives victims of child sex abuse more time to sue their accusers cannot be used against him because the woman making the allegations against the royal was of legal age at the time.

Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein's purported victims, said she was forced to have sex with Andrew in 2001 when he was 41 and she was 17 — the legal age of consent in New York. Giuffre sued Andrew in August, claiming he sexually abused her on several occasions when she was a teenager, including at Epstein's New York townhouse and the London home of Ghislaine Maxwell.

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The prince's lawyers want the lawsuit tossed because they say Giuffre knew what she was doing even though Giuffre's own court filings describe her as a child who was manipulated and pressured to have sex at the urging of the disgraced financier and Maxwell, his British best friend.

“The issue of consent is unsettled with regard to those — like Giuffre — who were between the ages of 17 and 18,” Andrew's attorneys said in the filing.

They added that while Giuffre claims she didn't consent to having sex with the prince, the claim cannot be verified.

“The only witnesses to the purported implied threats under which Giuffre allegedly engaged in unconsented sex acts with Prince Andrew are Epstein (deceased), Maxwell (incarcerated), Prince Andrew (the accused) and Giuffre herself,” his lawyers said.

Maxwell is currently on trial in New York on a criminal sex trafficking case. Giuffre is not one of the victims in that case.

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If Giuffre is considered a minor by the court, she would only need to prove that sex took place to have a case.