Andrew told masseuse: Granny has gift of gab
PRINCE ANDREW discussed the Queen Mother while having a massage on the island home of his paedophile friend Jeffrey Epstein, it has been claimed.
According to Heidi Windel, an adult masseuse hired in 1999 to give him the treatment during a stay at Little St James in the US Virgin Islands, the Prince said that he and his grandmother both had the ‘gift of the gab’.
Ms Windel al s o cl ai ms t hat Andrew joked with her that he had been bitten on his backside by a mosquito.
The masseuse, who is now 75, told Air Mail, a newsletter written by former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, that Ghislaine Maxwell asked her to set up a massage table in one of the cottages on the 75-acre island.
Ms Windel recalled: ‘I went to the door to let Lady Maxwell know I was ready and in comes a man, hand outstretched, who says, “Hi, I’m Andrew.”
‘When the massage was over he got very chatty and had me in stitches talking about the errant mosquito that had evaded its net the night before and bitten his “royal a**e”.’
Ms Windel said Prince Andrew then told her ‘that his grandmother and him both had the gift of gab’ before thanking her for a ‘smashing’ massage. However, the masseuse said that she did not like Maxwell, who was last week denied bail by a court in New York, where she denied sex trafficking and perjury offences.
‘She had a superior attitude, very much in charge, ice-cold,’ Ms Windel said.
She added: ‘The staff was really subordinated to her: it was always “Yes, ma’am, yes, ma’am” – never any discussion.’
Virginia Roberts, one of Epstein’s victi ms, cl ai ms t hat she was coerced into having sex with Prince Andrew on three occasions, including on Little St James in 2001.
The Prince has vehemently and repeatedly denied her claims and any wrongdoing.
Epstein’s home in Palm Beach, Florida, where the American billionaire financier abused a succession of teenage girls, has been targeted by protesters, who have scrawled ‘Gone but not forgiven’ on the gates in red paint.