Former British Prime Minister was involved in threesome with Ghislaine Maxwell, royal historian Andrew Lownie claims in explosive Epstein podcast

A former British Prime Minister was involved in a threesome with convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, royal historian Andrew Lownie has claimed in a new Daily Mail Deep Dive podcast.

Lownie joined Sunday Times bestselling author Sarah Vine to make sense of the latest release from the Epstein files by the US Department of Justice. Last week, the DOJ released its largest tranche of documents yet from its investigation into paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, constituting more than 3 million papers, pictures and videos.

The historian wrote the unauthorised biography Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, which chronicles Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s spectacular fall from grace.

As an early voice who warned of Andrew’s troubling behaviour and compromising network of connections, Lownie has become a controversial authority on the British establishment’s links to Epstein.

In addition to a claim that in 2006 Andrew and Epstein tried to pay an exotic dancer to have sex with them both at the same time, Lownie alleged that the disgraced former prince was not the only member of British high society to have had sexual relations with Epstein and Maxwell.

Lownie said: ‘I have heard lots of talk about threesomes – including a threesome between Ghislaine and a British Prime Minister.’

‘A recent Prime Minister?’ Vine asked.

‘A former Prime Minister, but it’s not Winston Churchill,’ the author joked.

Elsewhere in the podcast, Lownie alleged there is still much the public does not know about Andrew’s activities with Epstein.

He claimed elements within Buckingham Palace and government ‘aided and abetted’ the former Duke of York, covering up his behaviour.

Andrew has consistently denied all allegations of sexual misconduct. In 2022, he settled a civil case with Virginia Giuffre without admitting liability, though he expressed regret for his association with Epstein.

‘We have lots more on Andrew,’ Lownie said.

‘I think we will also find that he was aided and abetted much more than we realise. This will open up and other names will come into the frame.

‘This is why I think the King needs to speak. Andrew has been enabled and protected for a long time by a whole panoply of people around him, many of them in official positions.

‘Two things need to happen: we need to have a Parliamentary investigation into Andrew’s time as Trade Envoy.

‘Second, they need to release all the files on Andrew’s time as Trade Envoy. By law, they should be in the National Archives. That will help clean the stables and restore some trust. 

On Epstein specifically, Lownie claimed the financier was a Russian intelligence asset recruited by the Soviet Union in the 1980s.

He said Epstein and others were recruited to run honeytrap operations in Britain and the United States to gain leverage over influential people.

Lownie explained: ‘In the 1930s, the Russians penetrated the establishment through Oxford and Cambridge. They then realised they could do it through the royal family.

‘They realised there were these greedy royals who would get into bed with people and give them access and credibility.

‘There’s material that was captured by the FBI which has never appeared – videos which will include Andrew. Some of that stuff was given to Putin. We know that Andrew was involved in honeytraps in Russia, in Central Asia, everywhere.

‘But certainly, I have been given evidence that Epstein was a Russian source, that he was running these honeytrap operations. He traded in information and blackmail.’

Listen to the full explosive interview by searching for Deep Dive now, wherever you get your podcasts.