Andrew engaged with the women over a four-day stretch, royal historian and author Andrew Lownie alleged, according to a report in the New York Post and other media outlets, reports the Bangkok Post.
Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, as he is now known, was officially stripped of his titles on Thursday (Oct 30) by his brother King Charles III in a humiliating fall from grace that followed a growing list of damaging revelations about his character.
“There was a famous trip to Thailand. … 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 podcast “Deep Dive: The Fall of the House of York”.
Lownie said multiple sources, including a very senior Thai official, had backed up the allegation.
The visit to Bangkok was one of many trips Andrew took at British taxpayers’ expense when he was serving as an official 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 always puts in two weeks of ‘private time’”
Lownie maintained that there was a “conspiracy of silence” around the now-disgraced royal. He called on the British 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 said. “They remain closed, and that is part of the conspiracy of silence around Andrew that we need to break.”
The British royal family has faced increasing pressure in recent months after it was revealed that Andrew had maintained ties with the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein years after he claimed to have severed communication.
The revelation coincided with the arrival of the posthumously published memoir of Epstein’s most prominent accuser, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who levelled disturbing allegations against the ex-prince.
Giuffre, who died by suicide in April, had long claimed she was forced to have sex with Andrew when she was just a teenager.
Andrew has repeatedly denied the allegations.