Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell's 'Affair' Exposed: Bombshell Book Claims Royal and Convicted Trafficker Were 'Occasional Lovers'

Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell's relationship allegedly turned romantic at one point in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

According to Andrew Lownie's bombshell biography Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, Maxwell and the younger brother of King Charles III had an "affair" that caused Andrew to "spiral out of control" more than two decades ago.

"Andrew and Ghislaine were good friends, and over the years had been occasional lovers — and through her, the prince had come into the ambit of her boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein," Lownie wrote of the estranged prince and Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for conspiring with Epstein to traffick and sexually abuse young women and girls.

The royal biography detailed how Prince Andrew became "rudderless" in 2001 after leaving the Royal Navy, though Maxwell swooped in to help the son of late Queen Elizabeth II find a new life path by running his social calendar and leading him to secure several business deals.

While Andrew "appeared to be rediscovering his youth, hooked by the wealth and reach of new friends," a friend who was quoted in the book said at the time: "He's spiraling out of control, he's even started dressing like a 25-year-old in jeans and blazer."

"This lifestyle could be traced back to his closer relationship with Ghislaine," Lownie claimed. "She introduced him to many of the women with whom he had brief flings, but she also drew him further into Epstein's net."

Maxwell's pal Cynthia Matthews provided commentary for the biography, telling the author how the imprisoned criminal and Prince Andrew worked on foreign business ventures together — including "a hugely lucrative tobacco deal in Malawi that he helped broker, and a luxury vehicle deal in Thailand."

"Andrew loved Thailand and spent a lot of time there," said Matthews.

"In 2000, he resumed his on-off affair with Ghislaine," the book continued. "In May they were spotted holding hands at a restaurant in Manhattan before flying to Miami, with model Naomi Campbell and Parisian art dealer Alexia Wallaert, on the Lolita Express, as Epstein's plane was known for flying so many young girls."

2001 was the year late Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre — who died by suicide earlier this year — claimed Maxwell paid her to have s-- with Andrew, who denied the accusation.

"I'm not in a position to know what she's trying to achieve, but I can tell you categorically I don't remember meeting her at all," Prince Andrew alleged during a disastrous 2019 BBC interview.

While he admitted having a connection to Maxwell, he also downplayed his closeness to Epstein.

"Well, I met through his girlfriend back in 1999, who...and I'd known her since she was at university in the U.K., and it would be, to some extent, a stretch to say that, as it were, we were close friends. I mean, we were friends because of other people, and I had a lot of opportunity to go to the United States, but I didn't have much time with him," he claimed.