Prince Andrew once denounced a Royal Protection Officer, calling him a “fat, lardy-ass ct,” according to a new documentary.
Paul Page, who served as the Royal Protection Officer from 1998 to 2004, recalled in the documentary Prince Andrew: BANISHED, which premiered Wednesday, that he and other police officers on duty at Buckingham Palace were shocked by the number of women the separate private rooms of the prince.
“We used to have a joke that he had to have a revolving door in his bedroom,” Page says. “The amount of women going in and out there, it was just literally every other day someone came in to see him… a different one every time.”
Page claims a woman showed up one night and told officers she was there to meet Andrew. The officers apologized and explained that they could not grant access until they had confirmation from his staff.
The woman offered to call Andrew.
“We could hear the conversation,” recalls Page. “Anyway, he said, ‘Turn on one of the cops.” One of my colleagues picked up the phone. He yelled as loud as he could, “Listen to me, you fat, lardy-ass k–t. If you don’t let my guest in, I’ll come down.’
Page claims the unnamed woman turned bright red with embarrassment before going to the royal chambers.
“You would think that a member of the royal family would have some sort of decorum and respect for the staff who are there and paid to protect and care for them. [With Andrew,] there’s just none, none at all,” adds Page. “He’s just a terrible person. He’s a bully.”
In 2009, Page was jailed after a multimillion-dollar real estate scam. Prosecutors said he set up a scam company, tricked friends, colleagues and family into investing, and then used the money to support his gambling addiction.
Also in the documentary, a former diplomat from Bahrain recalls that when Andrew was visiting, he brought along a six-foot ironing board and an assistant whose sole job was to press the royal family’s pants.
Prince Andrew, 62, married Sarah Ferguson in 1986 and they share two children, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie. The couple split in 1992 before finalizing their divorce four years later.
The documentary claims that after his divorce, Andrew lived up to his nickname “Randy Andy” during his bachelorhood.
“The talk of the dinner parties was that he couldn’t keep his pants closed,” says journalist Helen Kirwan-Taylor. Royal writer Phil Dampier, meanwhile, notes of the prince: “He has never smoked or used drugs or drank alcohol, but his one big thing is sex.”
The documentary also takes a deep dive into Andrew’s infamous friendship with Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein.
Andrew — long said to be Queen Elizabeth’s favorite son, who died on September 8 at age 96 — was famously friends with convicted sex offender Epstein, who died of apparent suicide in 2019, and his accomplice Maxwell.
She is currently serving a 20-year sentence for taking care of girls being abused by Epstein.
Andrew was accused of sexually assaulting Virginia Roberts Giuffre, a then 17-year-old who was allegedly trafficked by Epstein and Maxwell. Earlier this year, the prince paid her a reported $12 million settlement after Giuffre charged him with sexual abuse.
As a result, Andrew resigned as a working member of the royal family and his military titles and duties were taken away.
The disgraced duke was allowed to wear his military uniform to his late mother’s wake, but not to her funeral.