Were Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell lovers? She visited Buckingham Palace 'at will', says ex-guard
An ex-royal cop has said that he suspected that Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell were lovers because she visited and left Buckingham Palace “at will”. Former bodyguard Paul Page claimed in an ITV programme that the ex-socialite even visited as many as four times a day. The pair has never been known as lovers, but as close friends.
In 2009, Page was jailed for fraud. “From the way she was allowed to enter and exit the palace at will, we suspected that she may have had an intimate relationship with Prince Andrew," he told ITV’s Ranvir Singh. “She kept coming in and out, in and out.” In a previous interview, Prince Andrew had claimed that he met American peodophile Jeffrey Epstein through his “girlfriend” Maxwell. He had said that he knew her “since she was at university in the UK”.
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After a lengthy trial that began on November 29, Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted on December 29 of recruiting and grooming underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein for several years. Maxwell was convicted of almost all counts, with the top charge being sex-trafficking of minors, which carries a maximum of 40 years in prison.
The other counts Maxwell was found guilty of are conspiracy to entice a minor to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, conspiracy to transport a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity. transporting a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors. While both the first and second counts carry a maximum sentence of five years in prison, the third carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, and the fourth carries a statutory maximum of five years in prison. She was acquitted of count 2, which involved enticing a minor to travel to engage in illegal sex acts.
Meanwhile, a settlement signed by Prince Andrew's accuser Virginia Giuffre has been unsealed, and the Duke hopes this will lead to the dismissal of her sex assault lawsuit against him. As per the settlement signed by Giuffre, 38, in 2009, she agreed to be paid $500,000 by Jeffrey Epstein to resolve the sex abuse case against him. Andrew's lawyers believe that the agreement could ensure that Giuffre is not able to continue the lawsuit filed in 2020.
Giuffre had claimed that she was "required to be sexually exploited by (Epstein's) adult male peers, including royalty, politicians, academicians, businessmen, and/or other professional and personal acquaintances." Referring to these allegations, the Duke's lawyer Andrew Brettler said that he did qualify as somebody covered in the statement as he was identified as 'royalty' in her complaint against Epstein. Giuffre said she slept with Andrew three times in 2001 when she was under the control of Epstein and only 17 years of age. The prince has maintained that the allegations are false.
