Paul Page told LBC that the ‘bully’ former prince made it clear to not interfere with guests, including young women in their 20s
Paul Page worked at Buckingham Palace for six years.
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By Flaminia Luck and Chay Quinn
A former royal protection officer has told LBC the normal checks on people coming into Buckingham Palace were suspended to allow young women to visit Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
Paul Page said Andrew, whom he described as a “bully”, made it clear not to interfere with his guests, including young women “usually in their 20s”.
He said the normal identification process for the Palace went out the window when female guests of the royal turned up.
“I never really saw anyone, I’ll be honest, about his own age, that’s fair to say,” he told Tom Swarbrick.
Mr Page also told LBC that he witnessed no criminality by Andrew, who has consistently denied any wrongdoing.
The Metropolitan Police, which organises royal protection, say all officers are held to high standards and that it hasn’t identified any wrongdoing by protection officers.
But the force added that initial enquiries into specific allegations by several forces have begun.
‘We said: if the Queen looks out and sees who’s sitting on her grass, it might be a problem…’
Former Royal Protection Officer Paul Page tells @TomSwarbrick1 about the ‘after hours’ arrangement to let ‘young females’ into Buckingham Palace for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. pic.twitter.com/pHh4teoZo2
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Mr Page also claimed that Jeffrey Epstein’s jailed accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell had a “free pass” for the Palace.
He told Tom that he recalled a memory where a female guest of Andrew turned up at the Palace in the evening, before having trouble getting in after the footman failed to answer the call.
“He was a nasty, horrible little man, and we’ve been on the receiving end of enough verbal bastings for him and to know not to interfere with his guests.”
He explained: “This female turns up and presents herself and says, ‘I’m here to see Prince Andrew’, the usual format.
“So we do what we do, we ring up the footman, only this time he doesn’t answer the phone.
“So now we’re in a position because we’re stuck in the middle. We don’t know who this female is; we can’t get hold of the footman. What do we do?
“We apologise and said we’re really sorry. So we’re just gonna have to hold you here for a minute until we can get hold of someone to confirm.
“She said, ‘Oh, I’ll ring him on my mobile’. We said, yeah, that’s fine. So she rang him and she put it on speakerphone and she said, ‘Oh hi, Andrew, I’m just having a problem getting in at the moment’.
“So before she’d even finished, she said, put one of the officers on. Well, my friend, the tubby one took the phone. And then he said, ‘Listen to me, you fat lardy c***, let my guest in now, or I’m going to come down there’.
“Exact words, 100%. And obviously, we just gave her the phone back and let her in.”
Mr Page described Andrew as a “nasty, horrible, self-entitled man”.
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‘Nasty, horrible, self-entitled man’
Mr Page said that complaints were made about Andrew’s attitude and the way he spoke to staff. “He was a nasty, horrible, self-entitled man and he was a bully, and that’s being kind to him!”
Mr Page recalled a memory on a hot day at Buckingham Palace when Andrew used his Protection Officer to retrieve golf balls that he was hitting into the lake.
“The next thing I see is the protection officer walking up and picking them all up and rolling them back to him.
“I remember thinking, we’re not ball boys. This is a highly-trained police officer having to roll these golf balls back to this idiot.”
“It was really hot. One of the footmen came out with a drink and a towel over his arm. Gave Andrew the drink.
“Then he took the towel and he wiped his face with it like that. What are you wiping your face for if you’re, if you’re not sweating?”
When quizzed on the women who were the former Duke’s guests, Mr Page defended him and his former colleague’s actions.
“This was going back 20 years! How do we know what’s going on with these women? We didn’t even know their names. So how the do we know they’re trafficked?
“If they’d came up to us and told us they’d been trafficked we could’ve dealt with it.
“We didn’t know anything cause we weren’t told!”
In 2009, Mr Page was jailed following a £3 million property scam. He set up a sham company, tricking colleagues, friends and family into parting with their cash, savings and pension payouts.
At least seven police forces are now investigating claims against the paedophile financier as part of a coordinated effort to uncover the scale of his crimes in the UK.
Surrey Police has now urged people with information to come forward about allegations of human trafficking and sexual assault dating back to 1994.