Prince Andrew was seen braving the chilly temperatures as he headed out on a horse ride at Windsor Castle — just days after he was slapped with a series of allegations in an upcoming bombshell memoir.
The disgraced Duke of York, 65, enjoyed a morning trot around the grounds of the sprawling estate, for which he fought tooth and nail after his brother’s several attempts to downsize him.
King Charles’ younger brother rode on horseback alongside a horse groom — a designated staffer responsible for the safety and care of the royal family’s animals.
The prince appeared visibly downcast during his sporty outing.
His weekly stroll around the grounds comes in the wake of chilling new allegations made by a former masseuse, who claimed that Andrew behaved “inappropriately” back in 2000 when she was summoned to Buckingham Palace by Ghislaine Maxwell, the Daily Mail reports.
Monique Giannelloni, 60, made the allegations in her new memoir, in which she claimed the former working royal displayed an “abuse of his privilege” when she arrived at the palace 25 years ago.
Prior to the meeting, Giannelloni said that Maxwell — a longtime friend of Jeffrey Epstein — said she had a high-profile contact for her who was “more famous than God.”
Once there, Giannelloni realized that Maxwell was referring to Andrew.
In the book, the masseuse claims Andrew disrobed and removed his towel before climbing onto the massage table.
“He did not do anything or suggest anything untoward, but I was very uncomfortable and a bit shocked that he had acted like that,” she wrote.
She added that she “expected more” from a member of the royal family, adding that his behavior did not leave her “impressed.”
“Andrew’s reputation has been sullied by his friendships with those two people,” she said, referring to Epstein and Maxwell.
Elsewhere, Giannelloni alleged that Maxwell had tried to recruit her for what she now believes were Epstein’s infamous boat parties.
“It was Andrew’s choice to be friends with those individuals Ghislaine and Epstein and somehow, I ended up in their world because of my work,” she wrote.
“I have a lot of questions and a significant one is: was Ghislaine trying to involve me and Andrew in her sordid lifestyle?”
Maxwell, 62, was convicted in 2021 of recruiting and grooming young women to be sexually assaulted by Epstein — who in 2019 killed himself in a lower Manhattan jail cell while he awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.
She is currently serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking.
