Prince Andrew was seen braving the chilly temperatures as he headed out on a horse trip at Windsor Fortress — simply days after he was slapped with a sequence of allegations in an upcoming bombshell memoir.
The disgraced Duke of York, 65, loved a morning trot across the grounds of the sprawling property, for which he fought tooth and nail after his brother’s a number of makes an attempt to downsize him.
King Charles’ youthful brother rode on horseback alongside a horse groom — a chosen staffer chargeable for the protection and care of the royal household’s animals.
The prince appeared visibly downcast throughout his sporty outing.
His weekly stroll across the grounds comes within the wake of chilling new allegations made by a former masseuse, who claimed that Andrew behaved “inappropriately” again in 2000 when she was summoned to Buckingham Palace by Ghislaine Maxwell, the Each day Mail reviews.
Monique Giannelloni, 60, made the allegations in her new memoir, through which she claimed the previous working royal displayed an “abuse of his privilege” when she arrived on the palace 25 years in the past.
Previous to the assembly, Giannelloni mentioned that Maxwell — a longtime buddy of Jeffrey Epstein — mentioned she had a high-profile contact for her who was “more famous than God.”
As soon as there, Giannelloni realized that Maxwell was referring to Andrew.
Within the guide, the masseuse claims Andrew disrobed and eliminated his towel earlier than climbing onto the therapeutic massage desk.
“He did not do anything or suggest anything untoward, but I was very uncomfortable and a bit shocked that he had acted like that,” she wrote.
She added that she “expected more” from a member of the royal household, including that his habits didn’t go away her “impressed.”
“Andrew’s reputation has been sullied by his friendships with those two people,” she mentioned, referring to Epstein and Maxwell.
Elsewhere, Giannelloni alleged that Maxwell had tried to recruit her for what she now believes had been Epstein’s notorious boat events.
“It was Andrew’s choice to be friends with those individuals Ghislaine and Epstein and somehow, I ended up in their world because of my work,” she wrote.
“I have a lot of questions and a significant one is: was Ghislaine trying to involve me and Andrew in her sordid lifestyle?”
Maxwell, 62, was convicted in 2021 of recruiting and grooming younger ladies to be sexually assaulted by Epstein — who in 2019 killed himself in a decrease Manhattan jail cell whereas he awaiting trial on sex-trafficking expenses.
She is at the moment serving a 20-year sentence for intercourse trafficking.
