Former Met Police safety officer Paul Web page alleges he witnessed Prince Andrew breach palace safety protocol with two ladies he believed to be intercourse staff
A former royal safety officer for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor claimed he noticed the previous Duke of York with intercourse staff at Buckingham Palace. Paul Web page served within the Metropolitan Police’s Royal Safety Unit from 1998 to 2004, primarily safeguarding Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and Prince Andrew throughout their stays on the Palace.
In an unique interview, he recounted a very notable incident when Andrew allegedly invited two “laughing” ladies into his non-public residences at Buckingham Palace, entertaining them for an hour.
Paul was knowledgeable by two senior officers that the pair have been doubtless intercourse staff, a perception he now shares, given the latest allegations surrounding Andrew.
Recounting the alleged occasion, Paul said: “We received a name from the management room. He [Andrew] has received two feminine company arriving in a taxi shortly. They stated ‘You are to not cease the taxi, it is to be directed straight into the quad’.”
Involved concerning the safety dangers of permitting a taxi with unknown passengers into Buckingham Palace, Paul and his colleagues determined to ignore the directions and halt the taxi.
In response to Paul, the ladies wore “very brief skirts and really low minimize tops”. He steered they “seemed like they could have had a drink”.
Phrase shortly unfold among the many officers on responsibility that night time and it was agreed that when the ladies left, whoever was on gate responsibility would alert everybody so they might see the suspect duo for themselves.
The ladies allegedly stayed in Andrew’s flat for nearly precisely an hour. Paul continued: “Then we get a name – ‘The females are exiting Andrew’s residences’.”
He added: “You’d have thought there was a significant safety alert. Fifteen police all working full pelt all the way down to the facet door to view these two ‘prostitutes’. There have been a great deal of us packed into the facet door space.”
“It is the place all of the tradesmen are available,” Paul added. “However what the fool within the management room by no means instructed us was that Andrew was with them.”
As quickly because the law enforcement officials seen Andrew, they scarpered, even hiding underneath automobiles to keep away from being noticed.
Paul stated that, in regular circumstances, a personal visitor could be escorted off Palace grounds by a footman. However what allegedly occurred subsequent shocked Paul much more than the sight of the 2 ladies.
“This time,” Paul claimed, “Andrew has determined to return and never solely that he is walked out onto Buckingham Gate with them – which is unparalleled – and he is stood out on the facet of the highway with these two unknown females and stayed there for about 10 minutes till he may wave a taxi down and put them in it and ship ’em off.
“A member of the Royal Household simply does not do this.”
Paul defined that other than the straightforward breach of royal protocol, Andrew’s actions represented a big safety danger. He continued: “Anybody may have grabbed him or seen him. He was there for a minimum of ten minutes, as a result of all of us needed to lay underneath the f*****g automobiles for ten minutes ready for him to p*** off.”
Representatives for Andrew and the Palace have been contacted for remark.
