Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor ‘walked into honey traps’ as ‘ladies have been offered’
‘If Andrew’s gone on these essentially state-sponsored trips around the world, acting in these disgusting ways, surely foreign intelligence officers must have huge amounts of dirt and evidence about him’
Writer and royal biographer Andrew Lownie has let rip on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, revealing the scandal-dogged ex-duke has “walked into honey traps”.
In an exclusive interview with the Daily Express’ assistant editor JJ Anisobi, Lownie revealed just how much scandal the newly-crowned private citizen that is Mr Montbatten-Windsor left in his wake.
What followed were reams of explosive, never-before-heard revelations about the once-Duke of York, with Montbatten-Windsor’s association with paedophile millionaire Jeffrey Epstein taking centre stage.
Buckingham Palace formally announced in October that Andrew would be stripped of his princely title and will be known simply as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, in response to mounting reputational risk and public pressure.
Mr Montbatten-Windsor has denied all accusations levied against him.
In the interview, released in a special regal edition of news chat show Daily Expresso, Anisobi pointed to Mr Mountbatten-Windsor’s years serving as the UK’s Special Representative for International Trade and Investment.
The role saw the former prince take a role that saw him jet set around the globe on a slew of state-funded trips on behalf of the British government and the taxpayer.
These overseas visits were officially intended to promote British business interests, although they were sometimes combined with private holidays and drew criticism at times over their cost and the nature of some of his business connections.
“If Andrew’s gone on these essentially state-sponsored trips around the world, acting in these disgusting ways, surely foreign intelligence officers must have huge amounts of dirt and evidence about him,” Anisobi tells the expert.
Lownie, author of Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, replied: “Yeah, well, one of the things is they do honey traps and Andrew was a classic person who walked into all this. So wherever he went, you know, girls were provided. It might be a translator, it might be a secretary, it might be going to a nightclub and just picking up girls behind the scenes.
“I mean that’s how a lot of the nightclubs, for example, in Kazakhstan operated, they were basically pickup joints. So we know, I mean, not just from a whole series of testimonies that there’s kompromat.”
Mr Lownie continued, revealing that Cambridge academic Tim Riley told him that “we know that there’s a policeman called Mark Dugan who was given some of the videos that Epstein used to take of people that he was basically putting out.
“He had cameras all over his houses. Andrew was filmed in the Epstein property. Some of the stuff was given to Mark Dugan, a Palm Beach police officer, by the investigators because they were worried that it would be suppressed in America.
“And Mark Dugan, for some reason, took that to Russia and is now in the hands of Putin.”
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has consistently and strenuously denied all allegations against him.
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