PRINCE Andrew could have dated Ghislaine Maxwell because the pair have been stated to have had an “simple heat” round one another, a pal has claimed.
New York-based Brit funding banker Euan Rellie suspected the pair “had most likely been girlfriend and boyfriend” previously.
Rellie advised an upcoming ITV documentary that he had recognized Maxwell from their college days in Oxford and attended dinner events hosted by her and paedo former billionaire Jeffrey Epstein within the US.
He recalled one do at Epstein’s New York residence through which the disgraced former socialite stated was “for my buddy Prince Andrew”.
In keeping with stories in The Telegraph, Rellie stated: “She described Andrew as being her buddy, not Jeffrey’s.
“I obtained the sense that Prince Andrew and Ghislaine had most likely been girlfriend and boyfriend previously. That they had a straightforward heat round one another.”
The documentary, Ghislaine, Prince Andrew and the Paedophile, is because of air on ITV at 9pm on Tuesday.
It comes as former Royals bodyguard Paul Web page stated he suspected Andrew and Maxwell have been lovers and claimed she got here and went from Buckingham Palace “at will”.
Web page claimed in the identical ITV programme the Maxwell visited as much as 4 occasions in at some point.
The pair are recognized to have been shut mates, however haven’t been linked as lovers.
Web page, who was jailed for fraud in 2009, has beforehand claimed Prince Andrew’s feminine mates, together with Ghislaine, hardly ever signed in.
He advised the identical ITV programme: “From the best way she was allowed to enter and exit the palace at will, we suspected that she could have had an intimate relationship with Prince Andrew.
“She stored coming out and in, out and in.”
A spokesman for the Prince declined to remark.
In Andrew’s notorious automobile crash 2019 Newsnight interview, he defined he met Epstein by his “girlfriend” Ghislaine.
Andrew stated he had recognized her “since she was at college within the UK”.
He stated: “If there are questions that Ghislaine has to reply, that’s her downside I’m afraid.”
Web page additionally advised ITV the Prince would “shout and scream” if his assortment of toy bears on his get obtained tousled by maids.
Web page — within the Royal Safety Command from 1998 to 2004 — used to have entry to Prince Andrew’s non-public condominium, the place he claims he had a mattress piled excessive with toys.
He stated: “It had about 50 or 60 stuffed toys positioned on the mattress and mainly there was a card the inspector confirmed us in a drawer and it was an image of those bears all in situ.
“The explanation for the laminated image was if these bears weren’t put again in the best order by the maids, he would shout and scream.”
It comes because the Prince was stripped of his royal title and all army honours after a face-to-face showdown with the Queen on Thursday.
The bombshell information was introduced by Buckingham Palace amid rising anger on the Duke of York’s intercourse assault lawsuit.
His army affiliations and royal patronages have been returned to the Queen with rapid impact after he was accused of sexually assaulting Virginia Roberts Giuffre when she was simply 17.
A choose sensationally gave the go-ahead for a civil trial earlier than a jury in New York later this 12 months.
The royal, 61, vehemently denies any wrongdoing.