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“We went into the VIP section. There was no waiting in the lines obviously — you were with a prince. Andrew asked me what I wanted to drink, you know, and I said, ‘Oh, you know, something from the bar,'” Roberts said.

“He had something clear. I know mine was vodka and then he asked me to dance. He is the most hideous dancer I’ve ever seen in my life.”

She added: “I mean it was horrible and this guy was sweating all over me, like his sweat was like it was raining basically everywhere. I was just like grossed out from it.”

Bizarrely, Andrew said on his own train wreck of a BBC interview that he was physically incapable of perspiring.

While Roberts may have been royally grossed out, she knew her role.

“But I knew I had to keep him happy because that’s what Jeffrey and Ghislaine would expect from me,” she said.

In the limo back to Maxwell’s home in posh Belgravia, the publishing heiress allegedly whispered to Roberts: “In the car, Ghislaine tells me that I have to do for Andrew what I do for Jeffrey and that just made me sick.”

Later that evening, Roberts alleged, she had sex with Andrew upstairs at Maxwell’s mansion.

“I didn’t expect it from royalty. I didn’t expect it from someone that people look up to and admire — the Royal Family,” she told Panorama.

“There was a bath and it started there and it led into the bedroom. It didn’t last very long the whole entire procedure. It was disgusting.”

She added: “He wasn’t mean or anything. But he got up and said thanks and walked out. And I sat there in bed — just felt horrified and ashamed and felt dirty.