A former assistant of Jeffrey Epstein claims she met Prince Andrew and sat on Queen Elizabeth II's throne at Buckingham Palace.

The unnamed woman made the revelations in the disgraced financier's 50th 'birthday book', which was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell in 2003.

She lavishly praises the convicted paedophile and how he changed her life from a 22-year-old divorcee hotel restaurant hostess, to being jetted off to exotic places around the globe and rubbing shoulders with royalty and celebrities.

In the 'assistants' section of the 238-page tome titled 'My First Fifty Years', she boasts of how she has 'seen the private quarters of Buckingham Palace' and 'sat on the Queen of England's throne'.

She accompanied her glowing tribute with pictures of herself, including one where she is posing in the crab position while wearing a bikini.