A PHYSIOTHERAPIST claims ex-client Prince Andrew tried to hug her after NAKED massages in his bedroom.
Emma Gruenbaum says he was her creepiest customer after sessions at Royal Lodge, Windsor.
The 50-year-old speaks out today after Andrew’s legal team said his sex-case accuser Virginia Giuffre “may suffer from false memories”.
Emma was a 34-year-old sports massage therapist at the Wentworth Club in Surrey when she started treating Andrew’s ex-wife Sarah Ferguson in early 2005.
Fergie recommended her services and Andrew’s staff got in touch.
The physio, a freelancer who was not knowingly vetted by Palace staff, visited Andrew six times that year.
She told The Celeb Report: “I don’t want to sit by and not speak out about the way he was towards me as he calls Virginia delusional.
“I always looked away as he got on the table and made sure there was a towel covering his modesty, but he was always naked under the towel.
“But all the way through he was talking about anal sex and making anal sex jokes. He asked when I had last had sex. It went on and on.
“I kept telling him to shut up but quickly realised he was OK with being talked at like he was a naughty schoolboy kind of thing.
“So I just carried on in that vein telling him to shut up. And that was the
pattern. I saw him six times. He’d say he would get someone to pay me because he doesn’t deal with cash.”
Andrew’s office sent cheques to Emma’s home address including a compliment slip from the Duke.
He paid £80 for a 70-minute session and requested Emma’s services almost every Sunday for a while.
She added: “Every time I saw him he would try to overstep the line. He’d try to hug me without fail. I would have to put my hand on his chest and push him off and say, ‘Look I don’t do hugs.’
“He asked me to watch a movie a couple of times. Once he said he wanted to make me a cup of tea and led me off somewhere as I was leaving.
“We ended up in the kitchen and he said he didn’t even know where the kettle was. I just wanted to leave. I said firmly, ‘Look where is the way out?’ And I left.”
Emma says she first got a call from the Duke’s personal secretary inviting her to the Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park.
She said: “That was unusual, to ask me to come on a Sunday afternoon.
But I said yes and went along at about 6pm as arranged.
“I knew the park because my horse was kept there.
“I took my own table which I always use because it is set at the right height for me to do the massage properly. But when I got there I got told: No, he will only use his own table.
“I was led through the house by a member of staff. I followed him up a couple of flights of stairs and ended up in the bedroom, a very impressive master suite.
“I said, ‘Oh I’m not really comfortable doing this in his bedroom.’ I looked at the massage table and I said, ‘And that is much too high.’
“It was up to my hips so I’d be kind of there massaging at boob level, which is something I obviously didn’t want.
“So I said, ‘Can we move it out of the bedroom? I am not comfortable.’
After visiting the Duke almost weekly for around two months Emma stopped getting calls from his staff to arrange appointments.
She added: “I think it is because he wanted more and he was clearly not going to get anywhere.
“His advances weren’t working and I think that his patience ran out. He always tried to turn the conversation to sex or jokes about sex. I’d tell him it wasn’t appropriate or it just wasn’t funny.”
Emma’s experience echoes that of masseuse Monique Giannelloni who told two years ago how, in 2000, a valet showed her Andrew’s bedroom at Buckingham Palace before he came out of a bathroom naked.
Monique’s “unvetted” visit sparked a security breach after it was revealed she was introduced to him by Epstein’s lover and Andrew’s pal Ghislaine Maxwell.
Last month The Celeb Report reported on claims by Andrew’s ex-maid Charlotte Briggs that he made her run up four flights of stairs to close curtains he was sitting next to.
Emma, now a successful surveyor who lives in Windsor, said she was speaking out because there is “more and more evidence and noise about how he has behaved”.
Virginia Giuffre claims she was trafficked by Epstein to have sex with Andrew when she was 17.
He vehemently denies all her claims and faces a civil trial in New York later this year.
A spokesman for Andrew did not want to comment on Emma’s story.
