A sought-after masseuse said she was once snuck into Buckingham Palace to give disgraced former Prince Andrew a massage — as she revealed the strange moment that left her “embarrassed.”
Monique Giannelloni’s June 2000 appointment with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arranged through Jeffrey Epstein’s madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, she told the Daily Mail.
She said the exiled royal bypassed strict palace vetting and led her to his room, where he ducked into the bathroom and came out completely nude. There were no personal security guards inside or outside the room.
“After saying ‘Hello,’ he disappeared to the bathroom and came back in the nude,” Giannelloni said as she recalled the moment she locked eyes with a naked Andrew.
“I averted my eyes and I was quite embarrassed.”
The South African masseuse — who was paid £75, or approximately $112.50 at the time, in the form of a Buckingham Palace-issued check — also remembered how “fast” Andrew whipped off his towel.
“’I was so nervous I was in Buckingham Palace, I was going through the motions and doing what I knew and if there was anything untoward I don’t really remember noticing that except for the fact he took the towel off very fast,” she said.
Giannelloni previously told the Mail she visited Maxwell’s Belgravia townhouse — the property where Andrew was pictured with his now-deceased accuser Virginia Giuffre — several times and branded Epstein “creepy, seedy and very pretentious.”
The masseuse said she wasn’t aware of Andrew’s links to Epstein.
Andrew, who was stripped of his royal titles last year, has always denied wrongdoing over his links to Epstein.
He was arrested on suspicion of misconduct while in public office last week over allegations he shared trade docs with Epstein while serving as a UK trade envoy between 2001 and 2011.
Andrew, 66, faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment if he’s convicted of the white-collar crime.
The massage from Giannelloni predates his trade envoy appointment.
Andrew’s love for massages is well-reported. Former UK civil servants have claimed he charged taxpayers for rubs.
In 2009, Juan Alessi, who worked as Epstein’s housekeeper at his Palm Beach, Florida, mansion, also claimed Andrew spent weeks at the property and received daily massages.
