Let’s start with some relevant chronology. Throughout 2019, the British press was singularly focused on smearing and abusing the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Even when Jeffrey Epstein was arrested in July 2019, there was only a brief pause in the press’s Sussex abuse. They gave Prince Andrew a few whacks and then went right back to screaming, crying and throwing up about Harry and Meghan. On August 10, 2019, Epstein died “in custody” under massively mysterious circumstances in New York. The same weekend of Epstein’s death, Prince Andrew went to church with his mother at Balmoral, and both of them looked like the cat who got the cream. It was officially Andrew’s word against a dead man. In November 2019, Andrew arranged the infamous BBC Newsnight interview, where he tried to lie his way out of everything. QEII still had his back, but then-Prince Charles finally convinced QEII that Andrew needed to “step down.” It was a major kerfuffle, and Andrew was the main story for several weeks.

January 2020 rolled around, and then the Sussexit happened. I’m not going to relitigate all of that, but what’s important here is the timing – Harry and Meghan’s departure became THE story for the British press, so much so that Andrew’s issues went to the back burner. By the summer of 2020, there were even stories about how Andrew could make a comeback, buried behind all of the 24-7 melodrama about the Sussexes. Well, during that comeback narrative, everyone in the palace had full knowledge of Andrew’s white collar crimes. A tranche of emails proving some or all of Andrew’s arrangements with Epstein were sent to Buckingham Palace six years ago.

Buckingham Palace was made aware of emails allegedly showing that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor shared confidential information with a business contact six years ago, according to court documents. A tranche of emails during the former prince’s time as a British trade envoy was sent to the Royal Household in 2020.

Documents filed in the High Court show that “material (which includes the archive)” of up to 30,000 emails relating to one of Mr Mountbatten-Windsor’s business associates was sent to the Lord Chamberlain, the palace’s most senior officer. They are understood to have included messages Mr Mountbatten-Windsor forwarded to Jonathan Rowland, his close friend and the former chief executive of Banque Havilland, during his time as a trade envoy.

A briefing note about Iceland and its financial crisis, drawn from an internal government memo, is reported to be among them. The Iceland emails were obtained by The Telegraph in February and published in an article showing how Mr Mountbatten-Windsor “forwarded a confidential Treasury briefing to a banker friend while he was trade envoy”. The BBC now reports that the exchange was among a “large cache of emails relating to Mountbatten-Windsor’s finances”. They are part of a 30,000-email tranche from the account of Mr Rowland, dating to before June 2013, that is mentioned in court papers from 2021 and 2022.

When asked about the emails by the BBC, Buckingham Palace said: “Since there is an ongoing police enquiry concerning Mr Mountbatten-Windsor, it is not possible to provide any comment on these matters.”

[From The Telegraph]

I’ll admit that for years, I thought Epstein and Andrew’s relationship was more about Epstein parading around his royal connection, and clearly, the two men shared the same depravities. But the Epstein Files really show that Epstein used Andrew for information as well, and Andrew was a bumbling “useful idiot,” sharing classified material to anyone and everyone, often at Epstein’s behest. And the palace knew it. Just like the palace knew about Andrew’s depravities with trafficked girls and women too. It’s remarkable to think back and understand the extent of the palace’s knowledge on all of this Andrew stuff, and realize just how thoroughly the palace scapegoated Harry and Meghan and used the Sussexes to hide all of the royal crimes, infidelities and degeneracy.

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