Bombshell book claims Prince Andrew's sex and money merger with Epstein

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Call this bombshell book a Royal with Sleaze.

Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, the tome by Andrew Lowie claims to expose the disgraced Prince Andrew’s high-flying lifestyle of sex, money and being besties with twisted sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

The book also examines Andrew’s troubled co-dependent relationship with his spendthrift ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson.

Lownie outlined some of the book’s more explosive claims to the New York Post.

One claim is that Andrew and the oily billionaire pedophile Epstein were close friends for far longer than the royal has previously admitted. Lownie said Epstein — who killed himself in his Manhattan jail cell in 2019 — had 16 different telephone numbers for the Duke of York.

Many of those numbers predate the 1999 line in the sand when Andrew said they met. Fergie was also tight with the money man.

“She flew on the planes, she stayed in the houses,” Lownie told the Post, adding Ferguson “was staying in Epstein’s apartments after 2010, when (they) claimed they’d totally cut off contact. And yet there she was, staying in his places, having said that she would have nothing further to do with him.”

For Fergie, famously bad with money, Epstein’s fat wallet was a godsend. Andrew admitted to securing $20,000 from the pedophile to pay off his ex-wife’s debts, but Lownie said it was much, much higher.

“An ex-girlfriend of Andrew, who I trust is reliable, said it was more like two million,” Lownie said, adding that it could be many more millions given the red-head’s financial foolishness.

In 2011, she said she regretted her involvement with Epstein. Fergie said she’d pay back the money.

The prince met Epstein through his longtime second banana and sexual paramour Maxwell. The disgraced socialite was an old school pal of the duke.

“(Ghislaine) was always going to Buckingham Palace and Andrew was circumventing security,” Lownie claimed. “He basically told security people to let her in.”

And it wasn’t just Maxwell: The author claims escorts also slipped into the palace.

“There’s an extraordinary sort of triangular relationship here with Epstein, Ghislaine and Andrew,” the author told the Post. “One of the things which one of Ghislaine’s friends told me, (was that) Epstein rather liked that. He liked this idea that all three of them were joined.”

Lownie said that Epstein’s former personal driver recalled driving around New York with Andrew and “two young girls around 18 to the Gansevoort Hotel in the Meatpacking District. Both girls were doing lines of cocaine.” The prince was making out with one of the teens, the driver said.

One of Epstein’s housekeepers claims in the book that they found sex toys in the royal’s bedroom. There were also envelopes stuffed with cash that had been “left for young women” by Epstein.

But it was the tragic Virginia Giuffre who would slam a torpedo into the side of the prince. Andrew has long maintained he didn’t know Giuffre but still paid her $20 million to go away.

Then Virginia Roberts, the Florida teen who worked at Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago was recruited and groomed for sex with the socialite and Epstein. She effectively became a sex slave used to entertain the twisted pair and their coterie of wealthy like-minded pals.

Lownie said Andrew was, in effect, a “sex addict” who had sex with anywhere from 1,000 to 3,000 women. Many he met through Epstein.

The book also paints a portrait of a pair of money-grubbing parasites in the forms of Andrew and Fergie. Her selling her soul to glossy royal fangirl mag Hello!, and he allegedly taking bribes while repping the U.K.

Andrew found financial favour and new friends in blossoming democracies such as Libya, Azerbaijan and Tunisia. The civil service called him “Airmiles Andy” for his staggering expenses. And if gifts weren’t forthcoming, the prince would ask.

Lownie said the prince once brought home a $5-million payoff. He said Queen Elizabeth turned a blind eye to her middle son’s hijinks.

“This is a book about financial corruption at the very heart of the Royal Family,” Lownie added.

Another part of the book is about the fractured relationship between Andrew and his nephews Prince William and Prince Harry. The bad blood reached its nadir in 2013 when fists flew between Harry and his uncle. Harry has denied any such fisticuffs.

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Prince William also doesn’t like Andrew, whom he allegedly sees as a sponge who gives the royals a bad name.

“William has long worked behind the scenes to evict his uncle from Royal Lodge,” Lownie writes in the book, adding that the breakdown may stem from Andrew not liking Meghan Markle or Kate Middleton. He thought Markle was too old and, as a snob of some renown, didn’t believe Kate was from the “right background.”

But when Prince William takes the throne, Andrew’s cushy life will be doomed.

“I think when he becomes king, poor old Andrew is not going to get the favourite treatment he’s been getting. I think William has marked his card,” Lownie told the Post.

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