ANGUISHED ANDREW ATTEMPTS SUICIDE!

Brought back to life after swallowing bottle of pills

AS investigators turn up the heat and damning new evidence explodes around him, scandal-tarred Prince Andrew tried to escape his growing disgrace by taking the coward’s way out — suicide, stunned palace sources tell GLOBE!

Palace courtiers say the 60-year-old Duke of York’s life was hanging by a thread when a bodyguard discovered him unconscious — with foam bubbling from his lips — at Windsor’s Royal Lodge.

A doctor and nurse, sworn to secrecy, were rushed in and saved his life by pumping out an overdose of sleeping pills, according to royal insiders.

“The prince was lying facedown on the carpet and, luckily, the prescription bottle was just inches away, so the medical team knew what they were dealing with,” dishes an insider.

“His pulse was barely noticeable at first, but when they got the poison out of his stomach, his functions began returning to normal.”

Details of Andrew’s emotional meltdown come as new information surfaces linking the randy royal to openly groping underage girls and partying with murdered American sex fiend Jeffrey Epstein, who ran a teenage sex slave ring. One of Epstein’s girls, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, claims she was forced to bed Andrew when she was 17 and he was 41!