BLOODY TIME damaging claims ahead of his firing by Queen

joke with ABC’s Diane Sawyer in 1996 that the marriage floundered as she watched videos while Andrew “had 27 concubines.”

In 2010, when Ferguson was caught on tape by the News of the World taking $40,000 as a down payment for access to her ex, Andrew denied knowledge of the scheme.

A year later, Ferguson admitted to the Evening Standard that she accepted $19,000 from Epstein to pay a debt as she struggled to control her lavish spending.

The fiendish financier offered the bail out after speaking to Andrew about his ex-wife’s money woes. In the same interview with the newspaper, Ferguson called the transaction a “terrible, terrible error of judgment.”

Ferguson expressed her support for Andrew earlier this week.

“It is time for Andrew to stand firm now, and that he has, and I am with him every step of the way and that is my honor. We have always walked tall and strong, he for me and me for him,” the duchess wrote on Instagram.

Jeffrey Epstein Era

Andrew told the BBC he first met Epstein in 1999 through his friendship with British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, whose father, newspaper magnate Robert Maxwell, owned the Daily News for less than a year in 1991.

The randy royal hosted Epstein at the queen’s private Scottish retreat in Aberdeenshire that year and joined him at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida in 2000, the Daily Mail reported.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre claims that in 2001, when she was 17 years old, she was coerced into sleeping with Andrew after Epstein groomed her to be a “sex slave.” Giuffre, now 35, says she had sex with the prince three times — at Maxwell’s London home, at Epstein’s New York townhouse and at the financier’s private compound in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The prince “categorically” denied the allegations in his interview with the BBC. He said Giuffre’s account of him “pouring with perspiration” when they allegedly danced at a club in 2001 proved she was mistaken because his strange medical condition prevented him from sweating. He also dismissed the photo showing his arm around Giuffre’s waist as possibly forged because “public displays of affection are not something that I do.”

Public PDA

After telling the British Broadcasting Company he strenuously avoids hugging or touching women in public, Prince Andrew became the subject of a worldwide search for photos proving that false. The hunt ended quickly. Images splashed across a bevy of British papers last week showed Andrew playfully embracing women at parties on the French Riviera.

One photo from 2007 showed him getting handsy with American socialite Chris Von Aspen. “He followed her everywhere she went, even to the bathroom, and at one point he gave her a head massage,” artist Jeffery Dread told the Evening Standard. Another photo from 2008 showed Andrew with his hand on the backside of Canadian socialite Pascale Bourbeau.

“He was clearly having a fullblown midlife crisis. He would have been 47 or 48 at the time, divorced from Sarah Ferguson and basking in the attention he got from young women,” a source with knowledge of the parties told the Daily Mail.

While the prince attempted to exit his royal duties gracefully, his spiral continued.

Buckingham Palace booted him from his private office space, and sources told the Telegraph his hope of finding refuge at his privately run Pitch@Palace initiative was no more.

Andrew stepped down from the startup competition for entrepreneurs Friday amid an exodus of sponsors including KPMG and Bosch, sources told the newspaper.