Did Andrew Have An Affair With Ghislaine Maxwell? (6/18/26)

The persistent rumors of a romantic relationship between Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew have been reignited by the forthcoming book The Rise and Fall of the House of York by royal biographer Andrew Lownie. In the book, Lownie presents testimony from insiders and former friends of the Duke of York who claim Maxwell and Andrew shared more than just a social friendship. According to the book, the two were romantically involved, with some sources describing them as “an item” during the 1990s. Maxwell, Lownie writes, was obsessed with status and saw Andrew as both a romantic target and a royal stepping stone. Their relationship, according to these accounts, was well known among those in their inner circles—casting doubt on the prince’s repeated insistence that he barely knew her.

These claims put Prince Andrew’s public denials under fresh scrutiny and deepen the sense that he was far more involved with the Epstein-Maxwell operation than he’s admitted. If Maxwell and Andrew were romantically entangled, it suggests that he wasn’t just a royal caught in the wrong company—but a man emotionally and personally tied to Epstein’s chief accomplice. This complicates his attempts to distance himself from the scandal, particularly in light of the settlement he paid to Virginia Giuffre. Lownie’s revelations don’t just challenge the official narrative—they threaten to obliterate it, exposing the possibility that the prince’s entanglement with Maxwell was neither incidental nor peripheral, but intimate, calculated, and deeply compromising.


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Prince Andrew Had 'Affair' With Ghislaine Maxwell: Book - Newsweek