A former Buckingham Palace royal protection officer says he suspected Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew had an 'intimate relationship,' according to a new documentary

• A former Buckingham Palace official says Ghislaine Maxwell would visit multiple times a day.
• Queen Elizabeth II $4 of his royal patronages and military titles on Friday.

$4A former royal protection officer said in his first TV interview that the Buckingham Palace staff suspected Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell had an "intimate relationship."

"From the way she was allowed to enter and exit the palace, at will, we realized … suspected, that she may have had an intimate relationship with Prince Andrew," the former officer, Paul Page, said in a new ITV documentary, "$4." "A colleague of mine remembered her coming in four times in one day from the morning till the evening — she kept coming in and out, in and out."

The Duke of York's $4 following the December $4, a British socialite who was found guilty of five of six $4.

On Friday, Queen Elizabeth II held a personal meeting with her son to notify him that he would be $4 as a result of the sexual-assault lawsuit brought against him by the Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, forcing him to defend himself as a private citizen.

The palace's decision came one day after a $4 an attempt by Prince Andrew to dismiss the lawsuit. Since 2015, $4 that Epstein forced her to have sex as a minor with Prince Andrew in his New York mansion, in London, and on Epstein's private island in the US Virgin Islands in 2001.

Andrew has rejected all of Giuffre's claims and denied ever meeting her. His lawyers have also $4 against her lawsuit, arguing that a 2009 settlement between Epstein and Giuffre shields him from liability and that Giuffre has no jurisdiction to sue.

Though Giuffre was not called to testify during Maxwell's trial, Prince Andrew was mentioned by name in court — both $4 identified as "Jane" as well as the former $4 testified that they had seen the Duke of York travel on the financier's private jet.

Prince Andrew also has made statements that could be used against him if the Giuffre lawsuit proceeds. In a widely seen $4, he described having a close friendship with Maxwell and said their relationship was how he became acquainted with Epstein.

The Duke of York's press office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

If you are a survivor of sexual assault, you can call the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 800.656.HOPE (4673) or visit $4 to receive confidential support.