A royal author has extraordinarily claimed the paedophile financier planned to silence the ex-Yorks, and that the plans were only scuppered when he died in prison

Jeffrey Epstein explored hiring an ex-SAS hitman to assassinate Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson in a desperate bid to silence the couple, it has been claimed.

Royal author and historian Andrew Lownie has claimed the paedophile financier had become increasingly paranoid as he awaited trial for federal sex trafficking charges in 2019. Before he died by suicide in prison , he allegedly "spoke to a hitman" who had served as a sniper in Britain's elite Special Air Service regiment and confessed he wanted the two Yorks dead, fearing they could spill his secrets.

Mr Lownie, who wrote the book 'Entitled' about the

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