THIS is the moment a stunned Ranvir Singh called Prince Andrew’s phone after finding his number in convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘black book’.
Singh heard what sounded like Prince Andrew’s voicemail and left a message asking the Duke to call her back for an interview.
Singh phoned the number, listed with numbers for Sunning Hill, Wood Farm, his Equerry and Balmoral as well as his Buckingham Palace address, for an upcoming ITV documentary.
Reading the book, Singh says: “The names and numbers in here are vast, it’s not exactly a little black book by any means.
“But one really catches your attention is the one up here and this is for the Duke of York.
“’Duke of York, Buckingham Palace London’ his address, it says here and there are numbers for Sunning Hill, Wood Farm, his Equerry, Balmoral.
“There’s what looks like a mobile phone number on here for him, I’m going to give it a go.”
The call goes to voicemail and plays a message that appears to be Andrew’s voice. He says: “I’m afraid I’ve not been quick enough to get to the phone before it went off to take your message.
“If you do have a message, please leave it and I will get back to you as soon as I can.”
After the voicemail message, Singh says: “Hello, I think this might be Prince Andrew. This is Ranvir Singh from ITV and we found your number on the little black book and we’d like to have a chat with you if you get back to us, thank you.”
She then turns to camera and says: “That sounded like Prince Andrew’s voice, Prince Andrew’s voice on voicemail?”
Prince Andrew was listed in the black book several times, including 16 numbers to his name among them a mobile and lines from Balmoral and Sandringham palaces, where Epstein visited the royal.
Andrew’s ex Sarah Ferguson was also named in the 92-page address book, which appeared online after it was reportedly leaked in 2015 by Gawker – with 18 phone numbers for her.
It is the latest shocking reveal in teasers from the documentary this week after a pal claimed Andrew may have dated Ghislaine Maxwell because the pair had an “easy warmth” around each other.
New York-based Brit investment banker Euan Rellie, who knew Maxwell during their university days in Oxford and attended dinner parties with Epstein, said he suspected the pair “had probably been girlfriend and boyfriend” in the past.
He recalled one do at Epstein’s New York home in which the disgraced former socialite said was “for my friend Prince Andrew”.
Andrew and Maxwell are known to have been close friends, but have not been linked as lovers.
But according to reports in The Telegraph, Rellie said: “She described Andrew as being her friend, not Jeffrey’s.
“I got the sense that Prince Andrew and Ghislaine had probably been girlfriend and boyfriend in the past. They had an easy warmth around each other.”
It comes as former Royals bodyguard Paul Page said he suspected Andrew and Maxwell were lovers and claimed she came and went from Buckingham Palace “at will”.
Page – in the Royal Protection Command from 1998 to 2004 – claimed Maxwell visited up to four times in one day.
“From the way she was allowed to enter and exit the palace at will, we suspected that she may have had an intimate relationship with Prince Andrew.
“She kept coming in and out, in and out.”
In Andrew’s infamous car crash 2019 Newsnight interview, he explained he met Epstein through his “girlfriend” Ghislaine.
Andrew said he had known her “since she was at university in the UK”.
He said: “If there are questions that Ghislaine has to answer, that’s her problem I’m afraid.”
Maxwell was convicted on five counts of sex trafficking last month and faces up to 65 years behind bars at her sentencing in June.
Page also told ITV the Prince would “shout and scream” if his collection of toy bears on his bed got messed up by maids.
The former cop used to have access to Prince Andrew’s private apartment, where he claims he had a bed piled high with toys.
He said: “It had about 50 or 60 stuffed toys positioned on the bed and basically there was a card the inspector showed us in a drawer and it was a picture of these bears all in situ.
“The reason for the laminated picture was if those bears weren’t put back in the right order by the maids, he would shout and scream.”
It comes after the Prince was stripped of his royal title and all military honours after a face-to-face showdown with the Queen on Thursday.
The bombshell news was announced by Buckingham Palace amid growing anger at the Duke of York’s sex assault lawsuit.
His military affiliations and royal patronages were returned to the Queen with immediate effect after he was accused of sexually assaulting Virginia Roberts Giuffre when she was just 17.
Earlier this month, a judge sensationally gave the go-ahead for a civil trial before a jury in New York later this year.
The royal, 61, vehemently denies any wrongdoing.
Ghislaine, Prince Andrew and the Paedophile airs on ITV at 9pm on Tuesday.
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