Shamed Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor had dinner with Jeffrey Epstein’s personal assistant at his private apartment in Buckingham Palace.
Sarah Kellen – who claims Epstein raped and abused her on a weekly basis – also said that she attended Princess Beatrice’s 18th birthday party at Windsor Castle.
Ghislaine Maxwell even gave Castro a book about her late father, the media tycoon Robert Maxwell, Ms Kellen said.
Ms Kellen, 46, was Epstein’s personal assistant for more than ten years, starting in 2001, and has been described as one of his top recruiters of young girls.
She was named as one of the four potential co-conspirators in his so-called ‘sweetheart plea deal’ for having sex with children in 2008, under which he served just 13 months in a low-security prison.
But in her testimony she painted a very different – and far more disturbing – picture of her life, having spent her childhood as a Jehovah’s Witness and groomed from the age of 13 by an 18-year-old who she would marry once she became 17.
After divorcing her husband at 21, Ms Kellen was recruited into Epstein’s orbit by a woman she met at a hotel in Hawaii.
The transcript of Ms Kellen’s testimony from last month was released by the House Oversight Committee, which is looking into Epstein’s life and the criminal investigations into him.
Shamed Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor had dinner with Jeffrey Epstein’s personal assistant Sarah Kellen at his private apartment in Buckingham Palace
Ms Kellen was Epstein’s personal assistant for more than ten years, starting in 2001, and has been described as one of his top recruiters of young girls
Ms Kellen – who claims Epstein raped and abused her on a weekly basis – also said that she attended Princess Beatrice’s 18th birthday party at Windsor Castle
Photos have previously emerged of Beatrice’s party in 2006 showing Epstein wearing a white military uniform next to Maxwell in an elaborate face mask
Ms Kellen disputed the characterisation of her as Epstein’s ‘lieutenant’ and said she was more like an ‘indentured slave’ subject to his weekly assaults, which were sometimes violent.
The testimony raises grave questions over her proximity to Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson.
Ms Kellen identified them both as some of the ‘prominent individuals’ she had met.
She said: ‘Prince Andrew was at the New York house. We also went to Andrew’s private apartment at Buckingham Palace for dinner. And we were at Princess Beatrice’s party at Windsor Castle.’
Photos have previously emerged of Beatrice’s party in 2006 showing Epstein wearing a white military uniform next to Maxwell in an elaborate face mask.
Next to them in a tuxedo stands disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein.
Andrew was asked about the party during his interview with BBC Newsnight in 2019. Epstein attended even though a US arrest warrant had been issued for him two months earlier.
Andrew said: ‘Certainly I wasn’t aware when the invitation was issued what was going on in the United States and I wasn’t aware until the media picked up on it because he never said anything about it.’
Eight days after the party, Epstein was arrested by police in Palm Beach, Florida.
Ms Kellen is pictured in 2004
According to Ms Kellen, she never saw Andrew acting inappropriately and he was not one of the men she named as having sex with her, apart from Epstein.
But Ms Kellen had harsh words for Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for trafficking children to Epstein.
Ms Kellen said that Maxwell should never get a pardon, despite speculation that Donald Trump might give her one.
Describing one chilling episode, Ms Kellen said Maxwell was on a bed naked and began touching her body to show her ‘how to touch Jeffrey and what he liked’.
Both Epstein and Maxwell were vile people with the paedophile being like ‘Jekyll and Hyde’, Ms Kellen said.
She said that at the ‘drop of a hat you would see the fire in his [Epstein’s] eyes, and it was horrifying’.
‘I would witness him even bring Ghislaine to tears, who I thought was the strongest, coldest woman I had met,’ she said.
Maxwell would berate Ms Kellen with insults like calling her a ‘polyp on a Donkey’s ass’, a ‘pigot’ and ‘minion’.
Ms Kellen said: ‘I always felt that she was instrumental in Jeffrey becoming who he became.
‘I always felt like she kind of turned him into the monster that he became, that she just fed him and catered to every whim that he wanted.’
Ms Kellen did not give a date for the meeting with Castro in Cuba but previous reports have indicated that it took place in 2003 and was in Havana.
Former Colombian president Andrés Pastrana has said Epstein was in Cuba for one or two days and that he too met Castro.
Ms Kellen said that there was a ‘book about her father [Robert Maxwell], and she [Ghislaine] gave a copy to Fidel Castro when we were in Cuba’.
In her statement Ms Kellen, a former Jehovah’s Witness, said that she was lured into Epstein’s world by a co-worker at a hotel in Hawaii, where she was working after getting married at 17
Pictures showing Jeffrey Epstein’s former assistant Sarah Kellen, shown to jurors at Maxwell’s trial
Robert Maxwell was a disgraced media tycoon who died in mysterious circumstances by apparently falling off his yacht while it was in the Canary Islands in 1991.
After his death, a grief-stricken Maxwell moved to New York and began dating Epstein, though they later broke up.
Andrew is currently under investigation by Thames Valley Police suspected of misconduct in public office – and possible sex trafficking – meaning that Ms Kellen could be a witness if the case goes to trial.
Andrew denies any wrongdoing.
