“Ghislaine was always going to Buckingham Palace,” Lownie claims. “Andrew was bypassing security. He told staff to let her in freely — and even insisted others, including escorts, be admitted without checks.”
A photo later surfaced showing Maxwell and actor Kevin Spacey posing on thrones inside Buckingham Palace in 2002.
“There’s an extraordinary triangular dynamic between Epstein, Ghislaine, and Andrew,” Lownie says. “One of Ghislaine’s friends told me Epstein rather liked the idea that the three of them were intertwined.”
Disturbing Allegations
The author also includes accounts from Epstein’s former staff. One, identified as Ivan Novikov, claimed he ferried Prince Andrew to the Gansevoort Hotel in New York alongside “two young girls around eighteen,” both allegedly using cocaine. Despite being a known teetotaler, Novikov said Andrew was “making out with one of them.”
A former Epstein housekeeper reportedly told Lownie that she found sex toys in Andrew’s bedroom, along with envelopes of cash — “anywhere from one to twenty-five thousand dollars” — allegedly left by Epstein “for young women.”
Public Denials
Prince Andrew has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and expressed “deep sympathy” for Epstein’s victims.
In 2019, he gave a widely criticized interview to the BBC in which he denied ever having sex with Virginia Giuffre, who has accused him of sexual assault when she was a teenager trafficked by Epstein. “I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady,” he said — despite a now-infamous photograph showing him with Giuffre, with Maxwell smiling in the background.
Lownie, however, portrays Andrew as a “sex addict,” claiming he may have had relations with “between one thousand and three thousand” women — many allegedly introduced through Epstein. The book even alleges the prince lost his virginity at age 11 and has been “obsessed with women ever since.”
Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York is due for release this fall, and is already sending shockwaves through royal circles with its explosive claims and intimate look at the Duke of York’s controversial life.
