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© Gamma-Rapho via Getty ImagesPrince Andrew allegedly once had 40 prostitutes brought to his five-star hotel during a taxpayer-funded, “famous trip” to Thailand, his biographer claims.
Disgraced Prince Andrew allegedly once had 40 prostitutes brought to his five-star hotel during a taxpayer-funded trip to Thailand, his biographer has claimed.

Andrew, who was officially stripped of his titles on Thursday and evicted from his royal residence in a humiliating fall from grace, engaged with the bevy of women over a four-day stretch, royal historian and author Andrew Lownie alleged.

"There was a famous trip to Thailand — for the birthday celebrations of the King. Andrew is representing his country and insists on staying in a five-star hotel rather than the embassy, which he always did," Lownie told the Daily Mail's "Deep Dive: The Fall of the House of York" podcast.

"Andrew had 40 prostitutes brought in the space of four days. This was all enabled by diplomats and others."

Lownie said multiple sources, including a member of the Thai royal family, had backed up the allegation.

The jaunt was allegedly one of many trips Andrew exploited on the taxpayer's dime when he was serving as a Trade Envoy for the UK in the early 2000s.

"In 2001, Andrew is 41, he's having his midlife crisis, and he basically starts chasing lots and lots of women," Lownie said.

"He uses the excuse of his role as Trade Envoy, paid for by the taxpayer, to go off on these trips," he continued. "He always puts in two weeks of 'private time.' So, we pay for his holiday and then he goes off and does things."

Lownie went on to argue there was a "conspiracy of silence" engulfing the since-shunned royal - as he called on the British government's National Archives to release its files on Andrew's time as the Trade Envoy.

"Andrew was sending a list of people he wanted to meet for his own personal business interests," he alleged.

"All the files from his time as Trade Envoy between 2001 and 2011 remain closed. They should be in the National Archive," the historian continued. "They remain closed, and that is part of the conspiracy of silence around Andrew that we need to break."

Lownie's remarks were recorded just before Buckingham Palace announced its bombshell move to formally shun Andrew by removing his titles and evicting him from his residence of two decades amid the fallout over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

The royals have faced increasing pressure in recent months after it was revealed Andrew had maintained ties with the sex offender years after he claimed to have severed communication with the late pedophile.

It comes, too, after Epstein's most prominent accuser, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, leveled disturbing allegations against the ex-prince in her posthumous memoir.

Giuffre, who died by suicide in April, had long claimed she was forced to have sex with Andrew when she was just a teen.

Andrew has repeatedly denied the allegations.