Former officer says he told FBI that Andrew evaded palace security for women visitors
A former Buckingham Palace protection officer says he has given the FBI a first-hand statement alleging that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor brought women into the palace without the usual security checks.
Paul Page says he documented what he saw and considered he had fulfilled his responsibility as a potential witness. Hello Magazine reported his account on 14 September 2026, attributing his comments about the FBI statement to The Telegraph.
Page worked as a royal protection officer at Buckingham Palace for six years. The role is carried out by Metropolitan Police officers posted to guard royal residences and the people in them.
He claims security rules were relaxed between 1997 and 2004 to allow Andrew to receive multiple women visitors. He alleges ordinary visitor procedures were not applied in the same way to certain visitors associated with Andrew. He also claims the names of women visitors were not recorded in the palace log books, the written registers used to record who enters.
In the account, Page named Ghislaine Maxwell as one of the alleged visitors. He alleged her presence and access was sufficiently unusual to become a matter of interest to protection personnel.
Page said he set out his observations in a dossier. He described circumstances concerning female visitors and how protection personnel were required to deal with those visitors.
He said he first contacted Thames Valley Police and received no response. He then contacted the United States authorities and the FBI, the US federal investigative agency. Hello Magazine attributed that part of his account to reporting by The Times on 13 September 2026.
The claims sit alongside earlier British police interest reported in February 2026. The Metropolitan Police were then making initial enquiries which included establishing what royal protection officers formerly assigned to Andrew knew. A chief prosecutor said at the time that nobody was above the law amid calls for an investigation into Andrew's friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
Readers weighing the new account will also see Page's own record. He has a fraud conviction after running a £3 million scam from a locker room in Buckingham Palace, as reported by Yahoo News in February 2026. That history does not settle whether his allegations are correct. It is part of the public record around the man making them.
The allegations remain allegations. They are Page's claims about events almost three decades ago, carried with his attribution in each sentence.
