A bombshell new biography has claimed disgraced Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell were more than just friends – they were also lovers, RadarOnline.com can report.

It was through their alleged hookup that the royal was first introduced to Maxwell's boyfriend, Jeffrey Epstein . Article continues below advertisement

According to the just-released book, Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, author Andrew Lownie contends Andrew and Maxwell were intimate sometime in the early 2000s.

"Andrew and Ghislaine were good friends – and over the years had been occasional lovers," Lownie wrote. "And through her, the prince had come into the ambit of her boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein."

Andrew and Maxwell soon went global with their romance, and according to Lownie, they were spot

See Full Page