An explosive new book claims drugs used to enhance sexual experiences were found by staff cleaning up after a “party” hosted by Andrew at the royal Sandringham estate. Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, who was stripped of his prince title by the King last week, is said to have invited billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his friend Ghislaine Maxwell to the event in 2000, which Andrew later dismissed as a “straightforward shooting weekend”.
In his new book, the Windsor Legacy, author Robert Jobson writes that staff on the estate found bathrooms littered with condoms, lubricants and drugs called poppers. When inhaled, poppers induce a rapid, short-lived high and muscle-relaxant effects. Possession of the drug is not illegal, but supply can be an offence. Mr Jobson’s book, which is being serialised by the Mail, claims staff became accustomed to cleaning up after Andrew and that the ‘party’ was held to mark Ghislaine Maxwell’s 39th birthday in 2000. Maxwell, now 63, is serving a 20-year prison sentence in the United States for sex trafficking.
Maxwell became infamous for her association with billionaire peadophile Jeffrey Epstein, who was a registered as a sex offender, and convicted in 2008 of soliciting prostitution from a minor. Epstein died aged 66 in a New York prison cell on 10 August, 2019, as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges.
Maxwell and Epstein were regular guests at royal residences in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
In 2019 Andrew referenced Maxwell and Epstein attending the event in 2000 at Sandringham during his car-crash interview with the BBC’s Emily Maitlis.
The Mail reports when asked by Maitlis if he had invited the pair to a party at the royal residence, Andrew replied: “It was a shooting weekend… a straightforward shooting weekend.”
Andrew has always denied sexually assaulting the late Virginia Giuffre, who alleged this happened on three occasions, including when she was 17, after being trafficked by Epstein.
On Thursday last week King Charles made the decision to strip his brother of his peerages and the title of prince amid the continuing fallout of the Epstein scandal.
King Charles and the Queen publicly shared their “thoughts and utmost sympathies” with “the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse” as part of the announcement marking the removal of Andrew’s title of prince.