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Topics: Prince Andrew, Royal Family, UK News
Rhianna Benson
Topics: Prince Andrew, Royal Family, UK News
The alleged sexual proclivities of the disgraced Prince Andrew have been further exposed this week following the release of a brand new royal biography.
Written by author and commentator Andrew Lownie, Entitled: The Rise And Fall Of The House Of York, tells the tale of the 65-year-old's initial rise to success, ahead of his falling out of favour with the public several years ago.
The latter was triggered by the Prince's close ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein - upon which increasing light has been shed since the media mogul's shock suicide in 2019.
In the text, Lownie describes Andrew as 'a spoilt prince unable to connect and a duchess pushed by her insecurities into a desperate need to maintain the attention her ‘royal’ status brought', basing her assertion on a series of interviews, as well as court papers and FOI disclosures.
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As part of his research, however, the royal writer also claimed to have uncovered a number of previously unknown details surrounding the Prince's sexual preferences - outside of his relationship with Epstein.
According to Lownie, however, 'preferences' isn't the right word.
Instead, he alleges the father-of-two is a sex 'addict', claiming to have stumbled upon between 'one thousand' and 'two thousand' women that Andrew was allegedly intimate with.
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One of these women, Lownie begins, is his wife, Sarah Ferguson - known as 'Fergie' by some members of the public.
In the years after their 1986 wedding, however, the Prince spent many years at sea as part of the Royal Navy, where he is understood to have docked in a number of female-friendly areas.
"Sarah discovered Andrew wasn’t coming home on some of his leave," Andrew's ex-driver told Lownie in the book. "He was going elsewhere - and this just drove her crazy."
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In fact, according to said driver, 'Randy Andy' - a damning nickname he has earned over the years - bedded 'more than a dozen women' between his wedding day and his first anniversary, behind Fergie's back.
This is far from the only revelation made about the Prince's sex life in the new work.
Another source told Lownie that Andrew had lost his virginity aged just 11 - after which he 'realised he was obsessed with women'.
Years later, whilst serving in the forces, a third insider claimed that dozens of women had been taken to the Prince's hotel room whilst he holidayed in locations including Bangkok.
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Lownie writes: "Hotel staff were used to foreigners bringing in girls, but amazed that more than 10 a day were going to Andrew’s room."
As mentioned, another huge proportion is dedicated to the Prince's relationship with now-deceased paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Despite allegations that Andrew went willingly on his raunchy escapades with the sex offender, according to Lownie, Andrew was 'easy prey for a rattlesnake like Epstein'.
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"Epstein played Andrew," the author continued. "The prince was a useful idiot who gave him respectability, access to political leaders and business opportunities. He found him easy to exploit."
In the book, Epstein's driver recalls transporting Andrew 'to the Gansevoort Hotel in the Meatpacking District', along with 'two young girls around eighteen' who were 'doing lines of cocaine'.
The written work also refutes the Prince's claim about first meeting Epstein in 1999, insisting the pair had known each other 'almost a decade earlier'.
Amongst the women who claimed to have endured abuse from Andrew whilst underage was Virginia Giuffre, who previously claimed she'd been forced to have sex with the British royal when she was a minor.
Prior to her suicide earlier this year, Giuffre claimed to have been trafficked to Andrew by both Epstein and his acquaintance, Ghislaine Maxwell, between 2000 and 2002, when she was 17-years-old. She also accused the Prince of committing battery.
In 2022, however, Giuffre and Andrew reached a financial settlement, putting an end to the civil claim she filed in the US.
The Prince later pledged to 'demonstrate his regret for his association with Epstein'.