By Molly Claire Goddard
10:01am PST, Feb 18, 2026
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During an appearance on his "Lownie Report" podcast on
Substack, royal expert
Andrew Lownie alleged there was a love quadrangle involving Sarah Ferguson, Ghislaine Maxwell, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Jeffrey Epstein. "Andrew was sleeping with Ghislaine, Ghislaine was sleeping with Epstein … I've heard that Epstein and Sarah were sleeping together. It doesn't surprise me," he claimed.
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According to Andrew Lownie, the complicated dynamics created friction between Ghislaine Maxwell and Sarah Ferguson. "Certainly, Ghislaine and Sarah were not friends. I think Ghislaine was rather jealous of Sarah and vice versa. She felt that Sarah was moving in on someone she saw as her boyfriend [Jeffrey Epstein]," he said.
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As more emails released by the U.S. Department of Justice reveal the close relationship between Sarah Ferguson and Jeffrey Epstein, Andrew Lownie claimed the two were more than friends. "Sarah Ferguson was madly in love with Epstein and apparently spent several nights with him," he told
The Mirror.
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Former police protection officer
Paul Page claimed that Ghislaine Maxwell and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor had a romantic relationship. "From the way she was allowed to enter and exit the palace at will, we suspected that she may have had an intimate relationship with [former] Prince Andrew," he told ITV via
The Mirror in 2022. "She was allowed to enter and exit the Palace night and day at will. Myself and my other colleagues formed the opinion they were in some sort of relationship."
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Sarah Ferguson and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor were stripped of their titles and evicted from Royal Lodge over their ties to Jeffrey Epstein. "She's a disgraced member of the royal family. She's just a family disaster," expert
Richard Fitzwilliams told
GB News.
