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Ex-royal protection officer says he's contacted police after he saw Andrew bring women to Buckingham Palace 'multiple times a week' and was 'not allowed to know their names'​

A former Scotland Yard royal protection officer today revealed he has gone to the police because he claims Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor smuggled women 'multiple times a week' into Buckingham Palace.

Paul Page, who served between 1998 and 2004, has said that officers working for Andrew were 'not allowed' to know the names of the girls who visited him.

He told The Sun: 'We were just told a female will be coming at whatever time. It's always after closing, and a female will be approaching the front gate.

'We were told to call footmen and then either the female would walk through unescorted, or the footman would come down to collect her and walk her to Andrew'.

He added: 'We put it down to him being a sh*gger, and because he’s a prince, and he wouldn’t give us the names because he’s a complete a**ehole to staff.'

Sources have claimed that other women would be whisked in to see him at his late mother and father's London home using the same coded requests and with no security clearance.

Ex-armed officer who 'saw Andrew bring women to Palace' goes to police

Paul Page, who served between 1998 and 2004, has claimed that officers working for Andrew were 'not allowed' to know the names of the girls who visited him.

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Peter Mandelson's secretive Russian 'ghost flights' revealed... how former EU trade commissioner's trip on oligarch's private jet raises the question, why was he so close to Kremlin interests? RICHARD PENDLEBURY​

In the early hours of November 25, 2004, a Gulfstream IV executive jet touched down in Rotterdam. On board were a crew of three and a solitary male passenger, the Daily Mail can reveal.

The passenger’s name was Peter Mandelson, former New Labour svengali and Cabinet minister. This was his first week in a new ‘top job’: that of European Union trade commissioner.

Later that day, commissioner Mandelson would attend the EU-Russia summit at the Binnenhof Palace in The Hague.

President Vladimir Putin was leading his country’s delegation. Trade between East and West was to be a key area of discussion.

Putin had just returned to Europe from a trade conference in Chile, and among his entourage on the South American trip had been Oleg Deripaska, the then-youthful metals oligarch who would soon be described as Russia’s richest man – and one of the ten wealthiest in the world.

At his peak net worth, in 2008, Deripaska was said to have $28billion in assets. Many wondered how he had acquired such a fortune, and so quickly.

His US visa was later suspended over alleged associations with organised crime; allegations he denied. Today, Deripaska is under British sanctions following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, which has caused more than one million casualties.

Deripaska has long operated a fleet of luxury aircraft. One of the planes he controlled in November 2004 was a Bermudan-registered Gulfstream IV with the call sign VP-BNN.

This, we can reveal, was the aircraft which took Mandelson to the Netherlands. For reasons that remain unclear, the plane had collected Mandelson from Brussels, brought him to England for several hours and then taken him on the final leg to The Hague for the summit.

Why was Mandelson flying about Europe on a Deripaska jet on the eve of crucial EU-Russia trade talks? And why was he so very keen to get there as fast as possible?

Peter Mandelson's secretive Russian 'ghost flights' revealed

In the early hours of November 25, 2004, a Gulfstream IV executive jet touched down in Rotterdam. On board were a crew of three, and a solitary male passenger, the Daily Mail can reveal.

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