Ghislaine Maxwell's ALL-ACCESS PASS: 'Intimacy' with Prince Andrew gave her 'unrestricted' entry to Buckingham palace
A former Royal cop has claimed that Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell had an "intimate relationship" that granted the socialite "unrestricted access" to Buckingham Palace.
The relationship between Maxwell, 60, and Andrew, 62, is being scrutinized after she was sentenced to 20 years in prison for her role in grooming girls for the deceased pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. Paul Page, who reportedly served The Firm for six years as an armed protection officer, has spoken out about how he would often see Maxwell visiting the Duke of York's apartments. Page said that Maxwell -- the daughter of disgraced media mogul Robert Maxwell -- had "unrestricted access" to the palace, and cops were told to wave her in without question whenever she arrived to see Andrew.
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Page, who served at the Palace from 1998 to 2004, told The Sun how he and his colleagues were convinced the prince was more than friends with the socialite. "She was allowed to enter and exit the Palace night and day at will," he said. "Myself and my other colleagues formed the opinion they were in some sort of relationship."
It's common knowledge that Andrew and Maxwell were old pals who knew each other even before she became acquainted with Epstein. Maxwell is understood to have introduced Andrew to the late hedge fund honcho before they became close friends in the coming years. Furthermore, Maxwell and Epstein are accused of trafficking Virginia Giuffre, who was 17 at the time, to the socialite's London residence where she was allegedly forced to engage in sex acts with Andrew after a night out at the Tramp nightclub.
#GhislaineMaxwell sentencing: federal judge is allowing 8 women to make victim impact statements tomorrow (6 addressing court directly, 2 thr their attns). That includes 3 victims who were part of gov’s case: Annie Farmer, "Kate" & Virginia Giuffre (here w GMax & Prince Andrew) pic.twitter.com/bzqmyPcH6o
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According to Page, Maxwell was one of Andrew's most frequent visitors in the early 2000s. The former cop made up his mind about the nature of their relationship after allegedly seeing them having an "intimate picnic" on the palace grounds. "It was right outside The Queen's bedroom window," Page told The Sun. "So from that point on, I was under the opinion they had some form of an intimate relationship." He said he and his colleagues were instructed not to enter her name in the visitors' book, which was a "highly unusual" instruction. "We assumed they didn't want any evidence of her visiting the palace, perhaps because she was Robert Maxwell's daughter - it wouldn't have been a good look," Page added.
Robert Maxwell, a disgraced newspaper magnate and former Labour MP, was found dead floating in the water near his yacht 'The Lady Ghislaine' off the Canary Islands in November 1991. Following his death, it emerged that he had stolen millions of pounds from the pension funds of his own employees. His daughter subsequently began spending more time in New York, albeit she remained a high-society fixture in London. "We would wave her in and she would go straight to the quad and straight up to the Duke of York's apartments," Page told the newspaper. "She had access like no other individual outside the Royal Family. She was on another level."
The former Royal cop said he and his colleagues knew that Andrew would "scream and shout" at them if Maxwell was denied access. When asked about his memories of Maxwell, Page said she was "very aloof" in her conduct. "She didn't say anything, she wouldn't say hello, just look at us and then look away," he explained. "Not a friendly person - I would almost say she looked down on us."
It's worth noting that Andrew has vehemently denied any wrongdoing over his relationship with both Epstein and Maxwell, and has insisted that he did not have sex with Giuffre. However, he settled a civil case brought on by her out of court earlier this year to the tune of a staggering £12 million ($14.5 million) despite having previously vowed to go to trial to clear his name. That said, Maxwell and Andrew are understood to have known each other for almost two decades before she allegedly introduced him to Epstein.