Prince Andrew and Ghislane Maxwell were a couple “in the past”, according to a friend

Prince Andrew could have dated Ghislane Maxwell, according to Euan Rellie, a friend of the couple, who assures that the son of Isabel II and the “madame” had a lot of complicity.

Rellie, who is a British investment banker based in New York, attended Oxford University with Maxwell, 60, and was invited to dinners she and her ex-boyfriend, pedophile Jeffery Epstein, hosted in the US.

She recalled being invited to Epstein’s house in New York one night and the “socialite”, now in prison, admitted that it was “for my friend Prince Andrew”.

Similarly, a former Palace Police guard, Paul Page, makes similar statements, noting that he and other officers wondered if the Duke of York and Maxwell were “close” given the frequency of her visits to Buckingham.

Both Rellie and Page made these claims during an interview with Ranvir Singh for the upcoming ITV documentary “Ghislane, Prince Andrew and pedophilia”.

Page, who served time in 2009 for a fraud scheme, said Maxwell rarely checked in when he entered the Palace. Rellie further claimed that she was describing the Duke as her friend and not Epstein’s.

“I had a feeling that the prince and Ghislaine had probably been boyfriend and girlfriend in the past. They had an easy connection with each other,” reports “The Telegraph.”

Prince Andrew’s stuffed animals

In addition, Page claimed that the duke would fly into a rage against palace maids if they touched his collection of teddy bears. The same source assures that the son of Isabel II had a bed with “50 or 60” stuffed toys and that the maids were given a laminated picture so that each bear could be carefully placed back in its original position.

Prince Andrew has been stripped of his royal duties and official titles.

“The reason for the laminated picture was that if the maids didn’t put those bears back in the right order, he would scream and scream.”

Writer Elizabeth Day was introduced to Andrew’s collection of “strange” teddy bears in 2019 at Buckingham Palace. She wrote:

“I was told to wait in an aisle where my only other companion was an oversized teddy bear squashed into a seat. When I was invited to meet Prince Andrew, I asked him about it. He laughed and told me it was a wedding present from his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson. I found it rather strange that a grown man would be so amused by the presence of a stuffed toy, but I suppose the English upper classes have a long history with teddy bears being used as transitional objects to express emotions they can feel uncomfortable.”