Andrew’s ‘serial sex addiction’: Epstein dubbed him ‘king of kink’, he ‘slept with more than 12 women in the first year of marriage’ – and what of those rumours that Fergie caught him in flagrante with another man?

Andrew Mounbatten-Windsor’s insatiable history as a ‘king of kink’ has been laid bare in a new book; following the disgraced Duke’s arrest, amid the latest revelations exposed in the Epstein files.

In Entitled, by historian Andrew Lownie, insiders have collated reports of the ex-Prince’s ‘serial sex addiction’, including dalliances with porn stars and ‘sleazy’ passes made at staff – with Buckingham Palace being forced to issue a statement that he didn’t contract an STI.

According to his former driver, the king’s disgraced younger brother had slept with ‘more than a dozen women’ before his first year anniversary of marriage to Sarah Ferguson.

It was also claimed he enjoyed a slew of affairs with both women and men amid rumours  Fergie had found her then-husband ‘in a compromising position with another man’; however, no concrete proof had ever surfaced.

During this time, a maid who had spent 11 years at Buckingham Palace also alleged that the then-Duchess once came home to find Andrew, wearing his underpants and a shirt ‘sprawled on a large couch with one of his navy friends who was wearing nothing but socks’.

According to the account, Sarah had said something to the effect of: ‘Make up your mind! It’s me or your bloody boyfriends, but you can’t have both.’

So rampant was the speculation about ‘randy Andy’, that he was forced to deny claims that he has an STD.

In 1994, Sarah also sparked controversy when she, during a Portugal visit promoting ‘AIDS awareness’, became the first member of the Royal Family to say that she had been tested for HIV.

‘I underwent two tests, one before getting married and one for a life assurance application 18 months ago,’ she shared.

Initial reports by local media alleged Sarah had actually said she had three tests done – including one before starting her family, but it raised eyebrows, with some speculating why she would have needed to do that in a monogamous marriage. 

Later, Sarah claimed she had been misquoted, but many were by then questioning both the Duke and Duchess’s sexual histories.

The Palace eventually had to put out a statement denying that Andrew had Aids.

‘We are very similar,’ Jeffrey Epstein had said of Andrew in 2007.  ‘We are both serial sex addicts. He’s the only person I have met who is more obsessed with p***y than me. We have shared the same women.

‘From the reports I’ve got back from them he’s the most perverted animal in the bedroom. He likes to engage in stuff that’s even kinky to me – and I’m the king of kink!’ 

A friend of the ex-Duke also told Lownie that ‘sex is his big thing in life’. 

‘He doesn’t drink, he doesn’t smoke and he doesn’t take drugs and never has,’ the insider continued. ‘He was known as Randy Andy for a reason when he was younger and it’s never really stopped. Travelling all over the world as the UK trade ambassador and for other royal duties has given him access to some beautiful women and he’s taken full advantage.’ 

According to the book, it means sleeping with more than 1,000 women – including, as per journalist Ian Halperin ‘porn stars, actresses, models, athletes, politicians and bartenders at clubs’.

And Andrew has been linked to a number of beautiful women over the past few years. 

In 2010, it was Spanish-Filipina model, Alexandra Escat – 25 at the time – who was photographed rubbing sun cream on him, on a 154-foot yacht. She denied any romance rumours.

Elsewhere some years later, he was reportedly seeing model Monika Jakisic, 19 years his junior.

Speaking to Lownie, one model who, aged 21, says she had sex with Andrew in the late 80s, when he was still married said he was ‘sex obsessed’. 

‘He wanted me to engage in kinky sexual activity,’ she recounted. ‘He had no boundaries. He told me he had an open marriage arrangement with his wife… After returning to London, I never heard from him again. I felt like he used me for a few days, so he could live his wildest fantasies.’ 

Elsewhere,  Epstein’s former housekeeper Debra Gale has also spoken about ‘enigmatic’ Andrew’s fetishes, having tidied up after him when he stayed at the Palm Beach house owned by the convicted peadophile.

She described once finding ‘sex toys on the floor and women’s panties in the bed’ – and claimed the ex-Duke had kept ‘newly wrapped women’s pantyhose, lingerie and sandals of several sizes in his closet at Epstein’s home’.

‘It appeared he had all types of fetishes,’ she concluded.

Closer to home at Buckingham Palace, one former staff member told Lownie that Andrew had a reputation for being ‘creepy’.

And masseuse Emma Gruenbaum, of the Wentworth Club, explained that the disgraced Duke had always felt ‘a bit sleazy and a bit odd really’.

During their sessions, where she was giving him a professional sports therapy session, he allegedly ‘insisted on being naked’ and would ‘try and hug her’, even going so far as to ask her if she ‘takes it up the a**e’.

But historian Lownie also spoke to a source close to Andrew, who suggested the royal himself may have had a complicated relationship with intimacy, after allegedly having his ‘first sexual experience aged eight and losing his virginity at eleven after a friend’s father hired two escorts for the boys in a West End hotel’.

‘I believe this might be the root of Andrew’s problems,’ the insider added. ‘I think he was a victim of sexual abuse at a very young age. To me, it explains why he’s spent most of his adult life at high risk of self-abuse, depression, and risky sexual encounters. It’s the effects of sexual trauma at a very young age.’ 

It comes as this week, the Daily Mail revealed how Andrew enjoyed a private naked massage in a bedroom at Buckingham Palace – all paid for using a cheque from the Palace.

The shamed former prince snuck professional masseuse Monique Giannelloni into the late Queen’s official residence after she was recommended to him by Ghislaine Maxwell.

Ms Giannelloni claims she was waved through into the Palace without any security checks before being taken up to Andrew’s room where Andrew emerged from the bathroom completely naked before lying down on the massage chair.

South African Ms Giannelloni provided the Daily Mail with an invoice showing Buckingham Palace settled the £75 bill directly from a Coutts account.

The rub down took place in June 2000 – a few months before the then Duke of York became UK Trade Envoy in 2001, a role that he held until 2011 when he was forced to stand down over his friendship with the paedophile billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Speaking exclusively to the Daily Mail, Ms Giannelloni said: ‘I got to the room and Andrew was stood there in a robe,’ she said. ‘After saying “Hello”, he disappeared to the bathroom and came back in the nude.

‘I averted my eyes and I was quite embarrassed.’

Ms Giannelloni said other than the initial embarrassment, she had no issues during the massage and that the then Duke was ‘very nice and very gentlemanly’.

She added: ‘I was so nervous I was in Buckingham Palace I was going through the motions and doing what I knew and if there was anything untoward I don’t really remember noticing that except for the fact he took the towel off very fast.

‘I can’t actually say anything bad about Prince Andrew in my experience on that day. I only massaged him once.’

The masseuse says she was first introduced to Andrew through Maxwell, who had somehow got hold of her contact details.

She said: ‘I first had a call from Ghislaine Maxwell’s secretary in New York. At that stage I had a lot of high profile clients and it was all by word of mouth so I have no idea how she initially got my number.

‘She had wanted a late night massage but I had told her I don’t do that so I went in the morning the next day.

‘When I went there, Jeffrey Epstein was also in the room the whole time and they were talking about purchasing some island for around £20million, which I thought was very strange and it was awkward that Epstein was just standing there.’

During one of the two appointments Ms Giannelloni had with Maxwell, the socialite told the masseuse: ‘I am going to introduce you to someone more famous than God.’

Shortly after, Ms Giannelloni received a call from the Duke of York’s staff asking her to come to the Palace for the appointment.

‘When I got a call from the Duke of York’s officers I immediately thought of Ghislaine because of what she had said.

‘I didn’t know who Ghislaine or Epstein were. I obviously knew Prince Andrew but at the time I had no idea about their associations or what they were involved in.

‘She said to me once: “Don’t you know who I am darling? You should read the tabloids I am a celebrity.”‘

The appointment with Andrew was quickly set up and Ms Giannelloni drove into Buckingham Palace, parked up her car and before being taken to the then prince’s room by a valet.

There were no personal security guards in the room or outside, according to Ms Giannelloni.

The cheque was signed off by the former duke’s then-personal assistant Charlotte Manley and was paid out of the Royal Family’s Coutts account.

It comes amid a turbulent time for the Royal Family. In the latest developments following the tranche of explosive Epstein file revelations, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was pictured leaving police custody, following his arrest on Thursday on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

The former prince looked shellshocked as he cowered in the back of a car, leaving Aylsham police station in Norfolk shortly after 7pm on his return to Sandringham. 

Andrew, who turned 66 last week, was detained by officers during an 8am raid on his new home at Wood Farm. In events that rocked the Royal Family, he became the first senior royal to be arrested in modern times.

Thames Valley Police confirmed the disgraced former prince had been taken into custody just after 10am on Thursday, marking one of the worst days for the family in recent history.

In a statement put out just minutes after Andrew’s departure, Thames Valley Police said ‘a man in his sixties’ has been released under investigation – as images showed how the royal seemed to be trying to evade photographers following his bruising day in the cells. 

Wide-eyed and with his hands clasped in front of him, Andrew cut a lonely figure as he ditched his traditional suit and tie attire in favour of a shirt and cardigan more suited to the setting that is so far removed from the upper echelons of luxury he is used to.

The photograph of the former prince, now stripped of all his titles and privileges, is sure to haunt the Royal Family in the days and weeks to come. 

Police added that searches being conducted in Norfolk, relating to Andrew’s new residence, Wood Farm, have concluded. 

It is understood the former Duke of York was arrested in relation to allegations he passed sensitive information to convicted paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein while acting as a trade envoy for the British government.

King Charles issued an unprecedented statement confirming his ‘wholehearted support and co-operation’ with the investigation into Andrew just hours after he was detained on Thursday – with Buckingham Palace understood not to have known the former Duke of York would be arrested. 

The statement said: ‘I have learned with the deepest concern the news about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and suspicion of misconduct in public office.

‘What now follows is the full, fair and proper process by which this issue is investigated in the appropriate manner and by the appropriate authorities. In this, as I have said before, they have our full and wholehearted support and co-operation.

‘Let me state clearly: the law must take its course.’

William and Kate are understood to support the King.