Prince Andrew shared confidential trade information with paedo Jeffrey Epstein

Newly released Epstein court documents reveal emails showing Prince Andrew sent official trade envoy reports and briefings to Jeffrey Epstein in 2010 and 2011

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has appeared to deliberately leaked classified details to Jeffrey Epstein during his stint as trade envoy in 2010 and 2011, fresh US court documents viewed by the BBC suggest.

Correspondence from the newly-unveiled Epstein papers reveals the disgraced Royal forwarded briefings about jaunts to Singapore, Hong Kong and Vietnam, plus hush-hush investment intel, report the BBC

There are also details of potential investments.Andrew, 65, was a trade envoy from 2001 to 2011 and the emails were exchanged with Epstein after the US financier was convicted and jailed in 2008 for soliciting sex with a minor.

Trade envoys have a duty to maintain strict confidentiality.Documents in the files include emails sent on October 7, 2010, in which Andrew allegedly told Epstein of upcoming trips.

They also indicate he emailed Epstein on Christmas Eve 2010, sending a confidential briefing on investment opportunities in Afghanistan, a project overseen by British forces and funded by the government. Andrew has consistently denied wrongdoing.

Andrew has consistently and strenuously denied any wrongdoing.

The emails reveal that on 7 October 2010, Andrew fired off specifics about his forthcoming official jaunts as trade envoy to Singapore, Vietnam, Shenzhen in China and Hong Kong to Epstein, with the paedophile’s business cronies tagging along.

Following the jaunt, on 30 November, he seemingly passed on official trip summaries penned by his then-right-hand man, Amit Patel, to Epstein just five minutes after getting hold of them

Andrew claimed on BBC Newsnight in 2019 that his final encounter with Epstein happened in New York in early December 2010 when he supposedly gave the bent financier the boot from his inner circle. However, on Christmas Eve that year, he sent Epstein a confidential briefing via email about investment opportunities in the reconstruction of Helmand Province, Afghanistan, which was under the supervision of British armed forces and funded by UK government money at the time.

By this point, Epstein was already a convicted sex offender. Sir Vince Cable, who was serving as business secretary at the time, expressed his surprise: “I was unaware of Andrew… sharing information about investment opportunities [in Afghanistan] before, this is the first I’ve heard of it.”

In another email dated 9 February 2011, Andrew hinted that Epstein might want to invest in a private equity firm he had visited just a week earlier.

The official guidelines for trade envoys clarify that they “are not civil servants”, but add: “However, the role of a Trade Envoy carries with it a duty of confidentiality in relation to information received. This may include sensitive, commercial, or political information shared about relevant markets/visits.”

They continue: “This duty of confidentiality will continue to apply after the expiry of their term of office. In addition, the Official Secrets Acts 1911 and 1989 will apply.”