{"id":137084,"date":"2019-11-20T07:56:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T04:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-7703985\/Prince-Andrews-millionaire-lifestyle-sums-just-dont-add-up.html?ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ito=1490&amp;ns_campaign=1490"},"modified":"2019-11-20T07:56:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T04:56:36","slug":"prince-andrews-millionaire-lifestyle-the-sums-just-dont-add-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/prince-andrews-millionaire-lifestyle-the-sums-just-dont-add-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Andrew&#8217;s millionaire lifestyle, the sums just don&#8217;t add up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mol-img-group floatXWHalfRHS\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-b288a7a6796f4d1a\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/prince-andrews-millionaire-lifestyle-the-sums-just-dont-add-up-1.jpg\" height=\"744\" width=\"470\" alt=\"Prince Andrew\u2019s long journey from dashing young Falklands War hero, pictured here in 1982, to the 59-year-old Royal pariah who bumbled through Saturday\u2019s extraordinary TV interview hinges on a simple question: what on Earth first attracted him to the billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein?\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-b288a7a6796f4d1a\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/prince-andrews-millionaire-lifestyle-the-sums-just-dont-add-up-1.jpg\" height=\"744\" width=\"470\" alt=\"Prince Andrew\u2019s long journey from dashing young Falklands War hero, pictured here in 1982, to the 59-year-old Royal pariah who bumbled through Saturday\u2019s extraordinary TV interview hinges on a simple question: what on Earth first attracted him to the billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein?\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Prince Andrew\u2019s long journey from dashing young Falklands War hero, pictured here in 1982, to the 59-year-old Royal pariah who bumbled through Saturday\u2019s extraordinary TV interview hinges on a simple question: what on Earth first attracted him to the billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Prince Andrew\u2019s long journey from dashing young Falklands War hero to the pasty-faced, 59-year-old Royal pariah who bumbled through Saturday\u2019s extraordinary TV interview hinges on a simple question: what on Earth first attracted him to the billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">This rackety American financier was, after all, the living embodiment of the sort of chancer someone of the Duke\u2019s pedigree ought to avoid.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A self-made man, whose personal fortune had been amassed in a highly-opaque fashion (rumoured, in certain circles, to have involved blackmail and money-laundering), Epstein lived like a real-life Bond villain, using private jets and helicopters to shuttle between a collection of vulgar mansions that were usually filled with very young girls of dubious provenance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">His Florida home, where Andrew stayed on several occasions, presumably with police protection officers, was decorated with photographs of naked teenagers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It boasted massage rooms, equipped with sex toys, and guest bathrooms where basins were adorned with soap in the shape of a phallus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Yet within an extraordinarily short time of meeting this dubious character, the Prince welcomed Epstein into the Royal Family\u2019s circle, inviting him to a birthday party at Windsor Castle, entertaining him at Balmoral and taking him shooting at Sandringham.Whatever, as the saying goes, was the Queen\u2019s favourite son thinking?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">As with many old-fashioned tales of power and patronage, the answer almost certainly revolves around the one thing Epstein had which Andrew desperately coveted: money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">To understand why, we must wind the clock back to the time when their relationship was forged, in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Prince, who had just turned 40, was at a crossroads: soon to leave the Royal Navy, where he\u2019d spent his adult life, he had two daughters, a divorce, and a famously-expensive ex-wife to finance, along with hobbies that involved upmarket golf resorts, yachts, and exclusive holiday destinations such as St Tropez and the Swiss Alps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Yet like most of his family, whose wealth tends to be tied up in estates, paintings, jewels and trusts, the Duke was not, on paper, particularly cash-rich.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Indeed, his entire official income consisted of an allowance from the Queen, said these days to be around \u00a3250,000 annually, plus a Navy pension thought to provide around \u00a320,000 per year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mol-img-group floatXWHalfRHS\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-613dbf6bfd2e44eb\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/prince-andrews-millionaire-lifestyle-the-sums-just-dont-add-up-2.jpg\" height=\"646\" width=\"470\" alt=\"Prince Andrew is pictured during a holiday on a super yacht in Corsica in 2011. He was a guest of Saudi billionaire, Hassan Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel, on a three-day break in Corsica worth an estimated \u00a385,000\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-613dbf6bfd2e44eb\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/prince-andrews-millionaire-lifestyle-the-sums-just-dont-add-up-2.jpg\" height=\"646\" width=\"470\" alt=\"Prince Andrew is pictured during a holiday on a super yacht in Corsica in 2011. He was a guest of Saudi billionaire, Hassan Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel, on a three-day break in Corsica worth an estimated \u00a385,000\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Prince Andrew is pictured during a holiday on a super yacht in Corsica in 2011. He was a guest of Saudi billionaire, Hassan Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel, on a three-day break in Corsica worth an estimated \u00a385,000<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">While the British taxpayer coughed up for \u2018air miles\u2019 Andrew to tour the globe, as the nation\u2019s roving \u2018trade ambassador\u2019 (the Duke\u2019s travel expenses were \u00a34 million over his decade in the role, while his security costs were another \u00a310 million), it would still take an awful lot more loot to keep him in the style to which he seemed accustomed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">That, of course, was where Epstein came in. The shady financier notoriously lent his private jet to the Duke \u2014 whose love of air travel famously once extended to taking a helicopter from Windsor Castle to Kent to play golf, at a cost to the public of \u00a35,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Meanwhile Epstein\u2019s various homes and private island were placed at Andrew\u2019s disposal, allowing him to live and holiday like an oligarch, for free.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">On at least one occasion during their tawdry relationship, and perhaps more \u2014 Emily Maitlis neglected to pin him down on this front \u2014 Epstein opened his chequebook, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">That moment occurred in 2010, when Epstein had long been a convicted child sex offender. Specifically, less than six months after Andrew had decided to spend four nights at his New York mansion. At that point, the financier agreed to pay \u00a315,000 to Sarah Ferguson. The cash gift reportedly allowed her to restructure vast debts, which at the time were heading towards the \u00a35 million mark and threatening to make ugly headlines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It also helped meet unpaid wages for her former personal assistant, Johnny O\u2019Sullivan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Unlike the Duke, who hasn\u2019t yet seen fit to express contrition to the prolific sex abuser\u2019s victims, the Duchess did issue a grovelling mea culpa after the payment eventually came to light, calling it a \u2018gigantic error of judgment\u2019 and adding \u2018I abhor paedophilia and any abuse of children\u2019. She promised to repay the loot \u2018whenever I can\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Epstein\u2019s assistance to Andrew didn\u2019t just come in the form of freebies and hard cash, though.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">That much became abundantly clear during Saturday\u2019s Newsnight interview, when the Prince brazenly waxed lyrical about \u2018the people I met and the opportunities I was given to learn, either by him or because of him\u2019, saying they were \u2018actually very useful\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">What he appears to have been trying to argue was that Epstein\u2019s circle of glamorous and influential contacts were not just entertaining company (for a somewhat lonely man who by all accounts has few genuine friends), but could also be leveraged into a potentially-valuable commodity. Given subsequent revelations about Andrew\u2019s finances it\u2019s hard to disagree.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">For not only could such people assist Prince Andrew with his official trade role, they also had the ability to funnel seriously profitable business opportunities his way.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mol-img-group xwArtSplitter\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-710a61726d79ceb0\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/prince-andrews-millionaire-lifestyle-the-sums-just-dont-add-up-3.jpg\" height=\"642\" width=\"962\" alt=\"Pictured: Prince Andrew leaves Buckingham Palace after spending the afternoon there on Tuesday\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-710a61726d79ceb0\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/prince-andrews-millionaire-lifestyle-the-sums-just-dont-add-up-3.jpg\" height=\"642\" width=\"962\" alt=\"Pictured: Prince Andrew leaves Buckingham Palace after spending the afternoon there on Tuesday\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Pictured: Prince Andrew leaves Buckingham Palace after spending the afternoon there on Tuesday<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mol-img-group xwArtSplitter\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-2453f7b559eb787a\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/prince-andrews-millionaire-lifestyle-the-sums-just-dont-add-up-4.jpg\" height=\"544\" width=\"962\" alt=\"Prince&nbsp;Andrew's interview with the BBC's Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis received widespread condemnation after it was broadcast on Saturday\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-2453f7b559eb787a\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/prince-andrews-millionaire-lifestyle-the-sums-just-dont-add-up-4.jpg\" height=\"544\" width=\"962\" alt=\"Prince&nbsp;Andrew's interview with the BBC's Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis received widespread condemnation after it was broadcast on Saturday\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Prince&nbsp;Andrew&#8217;s interview with the BBC&#8217;s Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis received widespread condemnation after it was broadcast on Saturday<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mol-img-group xwArtSplitter\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-56e67770d4b57e9\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/prince-andrews-millionaire-lifestyle-the-sums-just-dont-add-up-5.jpg\" height=\"725\" width=\"962\" alt=\"Prince Andrew's chalet in Verbier, Helora (pictured), is a seven-bedroom luxury lodge, which boasted six full-time staff and rented at more than \u00a322,000 per week. The property boasts living rooms stuffed with antiques and a master bedroom draped in animal furs, a 650 sq ft indoor swimming pool, sauna, sun terrace, boot-room, bar and opulent entertaining area\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-56e67770d4b57e9\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/prince-andrews-millionaire-lifestyle-the-sums-just-dont-add-up-5.jpg\" height=\"725\" width=\"962\" alt=\"Prince Andrew's chalet in Verbier, Helora (pictured), is a seven-bedroom luxury lodge, which boasted six full-time staff and rented at more than \u00a322,000 per week. The property boasts living rooms stuffed with antiques and a master bedroom draped in animal furs, a 650 sq ft indoor swimming pool, sauna, sun terrace, boot-room, bar and opulent entertaining area\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Prince Andrew&#8217;s chalet in Verbier, Helora (pictured), is a seven-bedroom luxury lodge, which boasted six full-time staff and rented at more than \u00a322,000 per week. The property boasts living rooms stuffed with antiques and a master bedroom draped in animal furs, a 650 sq ft indoor swimming pool, sauna, sun terrace, boot-room, bar and opulent entertaining area<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mol-img-group xwArtSplitter\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-b58ed9192e7b565a\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/prince-andrews-millionaire-lifestyle-the-sums-just-dont-add-up-6.jpg\" height=\"694\" width=\"962\" alt=\"Prince Andrew is pictured leaving a lunch meeting at Harry's Bar Members Club. Since leaving the Royal Navy in 2001, the Duke appears to have begun quietly carving out a sideline working as a sort of commercial \u2018fixer\u2019 to wealthy businessmen, using his contacts book and Royal stardust to help them set up lucrative deals in far-flung corners of the globe\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-b58ed9192e7b565a\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/prince-andrews-millionaire-lifestyle-the-sums-just-dont-add-up-6.jpg\" height=\"694\" width=\"962\" alt=\"Prince Andrew is pictured leaving a lunch meeting at Harry's Bar Members Club. Since leaving the Royal Navy in 2001, the Duke appears to have begun quietly carving out a sideline working as a sort of commercial \u2018fixer\u2019 to wealthy businessmen, using his contacts book and Royal stardust to help them set up lucrative deals in far-flung corners of the globe\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Prince Andrew is pictured leaving a lunch meeting at Harry&#8217;s Bar Members Club. Since leaving the Royal Navy in 2001, the Duke appears to have begun quietly carving out a sideline working as a sort of commercial \u2018fixer\u2019 to wealthy businessmen, using his contacts book and Royal stardust to help them set up lucrative deals in far-flung corners of the globe<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Indeed, over the years since he left the Royal Navy in 2001, the Duke appears to have begun quietly carving out a sideline working as a sort of commercial \u2018fixer\u2019 to wealthy businessmen, using his contacts book and Royal stardust to help them set up lucrative deals in far-flung corners of the globe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The deals themselves have always been secret, as have the exact commissions he earned from them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">However, they help explain how, between 2000 and the present day, the Duke has amassed such wealth.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mol-img-group xwArtSplitter\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-3bf9001fcbdef24b\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/prince-andrews-millionaire-lifestyle-the-sums-just-dont-add-up-7.jpg\" height=\"546\" width=\"962\" alt=\"Sunninghill House, on the edge of Windsor Great Park and near to Ascot (pictured), was sold in 2015 by Prince Andrew for in excess of three million pounds over its asking price\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-3bf9001fcbdef24b\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/prince-andrews-millionaire-lifestyle-the-sums-just-dont-add-up-7.jpg\" height=\"546\" width=\"962\" alt=\"Sunninghill House, on the edge of Windsor Great Park and near to Ascot (pictured), was sold in 2015 by Prince Andrew for in excess of three million pounds over its asking price\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Sunninghill House, on the edge of Windsor Great Park and near to Ascot (pictured), was sold in 2015 by Prince Andrew for in excess of three million pounds over its asking price<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Today he boasts visible trappings of turbo-charged prosperity, including a collection of expensive wristwatches \u2014 including several Rolexes and Cartiers, a \u00a312,000 gold Apple Watch and a \u00a3150,000 Patek Philippe \u2014 and a small fleet of luxury cars, including a new green Bentley. The Duke also appears to have managed to help clear his ex-wife\u2019s \u00a35 million debts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Then there\u2019s his vast outlays on property, including the \u00a37.5 million he spent refurbishing Royal Lodge, his home in Windsor Great Park, and the \u00a313 million lodge in Switzerland that he acquired in 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Called Chalet Helora, it\u2019s a seven bedroom luxury lodge in the exclusive ski resort of Verbier, which previously boasted six full-time staff and was rented out for more than \u00a322,000 a week. The property boasts living rooms stuffed with antiques and a master bedroom draped in animal furs, a 650sq ft indoor swimming pool, sauna, sun terrace, boot-room, bar and opulent entertaining area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">For years, these extravagant purchases baffled friends, given his meagre official income and lack of any proper job.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mol-img-group floatXWHalfRHS\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-9fe77a6f613032c9\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/prince-andrews-millionaire-lifestyle-the-sums-just-dont-add-up-8.jpg\" height=\"698\" width=\"470\" alt=\"An undated photo shows the Prince grinning from ear to ear as he heads to hit the slopes in Verbier\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-9fe77a6f613032c9\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/prince-andrews-millionaire-lifestyle-the-sums-just-dont-add-up-8.jpg\" height=\"698\" width=\"470\" alt=\"An undated photo shows the Prince grinning from ear to ear as he heads to hit the slopes in Verbier\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">An undated photo shows the Prince grinning from ear to ear as he heads to hit the slopes in Verbier<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Since 2011, his official working life has revolved around an entrepreneurial charity, Pitch@Palace, and a dwindling number of official engagements (225 so far in 2019, down from roughly twice that number in previous years).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018I would compare Andrew to a hot-air balloon,\u2019 an acquaintance once told me. \u2018He seems to float serenely around, in very rarefied circles, without any visible means of support. No one has ever had a clue how he pays for it.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">However, in 2016, the Mail obtained a tranche of emails detailing his extraordinary business dealings with just one of the many groups of politically-connected entrepreneurs in his orbit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The documents hailed from the spectacularly corrupt, but mineral-rich Central Asian country Kazakhstan, whose dictator Nursultan Nazarbayev had, in the mid-2000s, become chummy with Andrew during trade visits: at one point inviting him on a goose hunt to one of his remote hunting lodges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The emails were originally obtained by pro-democracy activists in the country, and offered a chilling insight into the moral universe of some of the dodgy oligarchs in the Prince\u2019s circle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">One set of emails was sent by a Kazakh businessman (who had been previously photographed meeting Andrew) to a group of Russian friends. It featured an obscene discussion about teenage prostitutes who would soon be joining them on holiday near to the Black Sea. Attached was video footage of each of the girls, stick thin and incredibly young, dancing in bikinis next to a pool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Andrew was not party to this correspondence, and it should be stressed that he had also nothing to do with the holiday in question. His name instead cropped up in a separate set of emails, involving an entirely different Kazakh businessman called Kenges Rakishev.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">On April 14, 2011, the Prince telephoned, then personally emailed, Rakishev on behalf of a Greek water company called EYDAP and a Swiss finance house called Aras Capital, which wanted to bid for a \u00a3385 million contract to build water and sewage networks in two large Kazakh cities, Astana and Almaty, one of which boasted Rakishev\u2019s father-in-law as mayor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Describing the consortium as \u2018we\u2019, and outlining broad details of what he called \u2018the water plan\u2019, the Prince then said his private secretary, Amanda Thirsk, would personally help introduce the firms to senior Kazakh political figures.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mol-img-group xwArtSplitter\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-d3e56826f822e37b\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/prince-andrews-millionaire-lifestyle-the-sums-just-dont-add-up-9.jpg\" height=\"999\" width=\"962\" alt=\"In 2016, the Mail obtained a tranche of emails detailing the Prince's extraordinary business dealings with just one of the many groups of politically-connected entrepreneurs in his orbit. The documents hailed from the spectacularly corrupt, but mineral-rich Central Asian country Kazakhstan, whose dictator Nursultan Nazarbayev (pictured shaking Andrew's hand) had, in the mid-2000s, become chummy with Andrew during trade visits: at one point inviting him on a goose hunt to one of his remote hunting lodges\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-d3e56826f822e37b\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/prince-andrews-millionaire-lifestyle-the-sums-just-dont-add-up-9.jpg\" height=\"999\" width=\"962\" alt=\"In 2016, the Mail obtained a tranche of emails detailing the Prince's extraordinary business dealings with just one of the many groups of politically-connected entrepreneurs in his orbit. The documents hailed from the spectacularly corrupt, but mineral-rich Central Asian country Kazakhstan, whose dictator Nursultan Nazarbayev (pictured shaking Andrew's hand) had, in the mid-2000s, become chummy with Andrew during trade visits: at one point inviting him on a goose hunt to one of his remote hunting lodges\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">In 2016, the Mail obtained a tranche of emails detailing the Prince&#8217;s extraordinary business dealings with just one of the many groups of politically-connected entrepreneurs in his orbit. The documents hailed from the spectacularly corrupt, but mineral-rich Central Asian country Kazakhstan, whose dictator Nursultan Nazarbayev (pictured shaking Andrew&#8217;s hand) had, in the mid-2000s, become chummy with Andrew during trade visits: at one point inviting him on a goose hunt to one of his remote hunting lodges<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">According to Greek executives involved in the bid, Andrew was to have been paid a commission of one per cent, or \u00a33.85 million, for helping broker a successful deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Coincidentally, one per cent is exactly the same commission the Duchess of York had been recorded on tape in 2010 demanding in return for access to the Prince, in a red-top newspaper sting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The sum, in addition to a \u00a3500,000 down payment, would \u2018open any door you want\u2019, she told an undercover reporter from the News of the World, posing as a wealthy businessman. \u2018Look after me and he [Andrew] will look after you,\u2019 she claimed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018You\u2019ll get it back tenfold.\u2019<\/p>\n<div class=\"mol-img-group floatXWHalfRHS\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-b796010f9efc2535\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/prince-andrews-millionaire-lifestyle-the-sums-just-dont-add-up-10.jpg\" height=\"572\" width=\"470\" alt=\"Prince Andrew, Duke of York, seen wearing an new Apple Watch (reportedly a freebie of the \u00a312,000 18-Carat Gold Model) as he attends the Endurance Event during the Royal Windsor Horse Show in Windsor Great Park\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-b796010f9efc2535\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/prince-andrews-millionaire-lifestyle-the-sums-just-dont-add-up-10.jpg\" height=\"572\" width=\"470\" alt=\"Prince Andrew, Duke of York, seen wearing an new Apple Watch (reportedly a freebie of the \u00a312,000 18-Carat Gold Model) as he attends the Endurance Event during the Royal Windsor Horse Show in Windsor Great Park\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Prince Andrew, Duke of York, seen wearing an new Apple Watch (reportedly a freebie of the \u00a312,000 18-Carat Gold Model) as he attends the Endurance Event during the Royal Windsor Horse Show in Windsor Great Park<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But we digress. The 2011 emails, on behalf of Greek and Swiss firms, with absolutely no upside for UK Plc, were sent while Andrew was supposedly working full-time as Britain\u2019s trade ambassador.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Perhaps intriguingly, given recent events involving a photograph of Andrew and Epstein\u2019s \u2018sex slave\u2019 Virginia Roberts, Buckingham Palace initially sought to argue they were forged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">However, they later admitted the messages, which were signed \u2018The Duke\u2019 were genuine, but hired law firm Harbottle &amp; Lewis to argue that publishing them would breach the Prince\u2019s privacy (the Mail successfully responded that they laid bare a financial and political scandal which was clearly in the public interest).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Also in the leaked emails were messages detailing the notorious sale of Sunninghill, the Duke\u2019s 12-bedroom former Windsor home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It had languished on the market for five years before suddenly changing hands in November 2007. The purchaser was listed as an opaque company based in the British Virgin Islands, who for reasons never properly explained decided to pay \u00a315 million \u2014 \u00a33 million over the asking price \u2014 before leaving the property empty, decaying for more than eight years, before razing it to the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The purchaser was later named as Timur Kulibayev, another Kazakh oligarch Andrew met on the global trade circuit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Although Buckingham Palace had long insisted Andrew had no role whatsoever in the sale, the emails showed his private office had gone to great lengths to broker the deal, discussing interior design and security arrangements with the purchaser, while also intervening to persuade the Crown Estate to lease two fields adjacent to the property to them for a peppercorn rent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A couple of years later, Andrew had also emailed senior figures at the State owned Royal Bank of Scotland to ask if they could arrange for the Royal Bank, Coutts (owned by RBS) to take on Mr Kulibayev as a client. His message asked them to send executives to Kazakhstan to discuss \u2018wealth management\u2019 with him. Mr Kulibayev \u2014 whose father in law is the aforementioned dictator, Nursultan Nazarbayev \u2014 is of course just one of a host of wealthy but controversial businessmen the Duke has been drawn towards.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mol-img-group xwArtSplitter\">\n<div class=\"splitLeft\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-4c1b98704b4c0014\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/prince-andrews-millionaire-lifestyle-the-sums-just-dont-add-up-11.jpg\" height=\"681\" width=\"470\" alt=\"While none have proven to be as explosively controversial as Epstein, several have made ugly headlines, including Colonel Gaddafi\u2019s son, Saif al-Islam (right). Mr Timur Kulibayev (left)\u2014 whose father in law is the aforementioned Kazakh dictator, Nursultan Nazarbayev \u2014 is of course just one of a host of wealthy but controversial businessmen the Duke has been drawn towards\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-4c1b98704b4c0014\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/prince-andrews-millionaire-lifestyle-the-sums-just-dont-add-up-11.jpg\" height=\"681\" width=\"470\" alt=\"While none have proven to be as explosively controversial as Epstein, several have made ugly headlines, including Colonel Gaddafi\u2019s son, Saif al-Islam (right). Mr Timur Kulibayev (left)\u2014 whose father in law is the aforementioned Kazakh dictator, Nursultan Nazarbayev \u2014 is of course just one of a host of wealthy but controversial businessmen the Duke has been drawn towards\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"splitRight\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-5eec2e618d898caf\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/prince-andrews-millionaire-lifestyle-the-sums-just-dont-add-up-12.jpg\" height=\"681\" width=\"470\" alt=\"While none have proven to be as explosively controversial as Epstein, several have made ugly headlines, including Colonel Gaddafi\u2019s son, Saif al-Islam (right). Mr Timur Kulibayev (left)\u2014 whose father in law is the aforementioned Kazakh dictator, Nursultan Nazarbayev \u2014 is of course just one of a host of wealthy but controversial businessmen the Duke has been drawn towards\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-5eec2e618d898caf\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/prince-andrews-millionaire-lifestyle-the-sums-just-dont-add-up-12.jpg\" height=\"681\" width=\"470\" alt=\"While none have proven to be as explosively controversial as Epstein, several have made ugly headlines, including Colonel Gaddafi\u2019s son, Saif al-Islam (right). Mr Timur Kulibayev (left)\u2014 whose father in law is the aforementioned Kazakh dictator, Nursultan Nazarbayev \u2014 is of course just one of a host of wealthy but controversial businessmen the Duke has been drawn towards\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">While none have proven to be as explosively controversial as Epstein, several have made ugly headlines, including Colonel Gaddafi\u2019s son, Saif al-Islam (right).&nbsp;Mr Timur Kulibayev (left)\u2014 whose father in law is the aforementioned Kazakh dictator, Nursultan Nazarbayev \u2014 is of course just one of a host of wealthy but controversial businessmen the Duke has been drawn towards<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">While none have proven to be as explosively controversial as Epstein, several have made ugly headlines, from Colonel Gaddafi\u2019s son, Saif al-Islam, to Tarek Kaituni, a convicted Libyan gun smuggler who came to his daughter Eugenie\u2019s wedding this summer, Sakher el-Materi, a one-time member of the Tunisian government who took asylum in the Seychelles after being convicted of corruption, and David Rowland, a tycoon and tax exile once branded a \u2018shady financier\u2019 in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">All have, like Epstein, got bulging wallets and are capable of great charm. Doubtless they also throw a mean party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But when a senior Royal chooses to bring large numbers of turbo-charged plutocrats into their inner circle, and when their relationships start to extend into the financial realm, things have a habit of turning sour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Prince Andrew may have said in his notorious interview on Saturday that he doesn\u2019t perspire. But as the charge sheet against him slowly starts to engulf the very institution he represents, the Duke of York could be forgiven for feeling a bit hot under the collar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Andrew\u2019s long journey from dashing young Falklands War hero, pictured here in 1982, to the 59-year-old Royal pariah who bumbled through Saturday\u2019s extraordinary TV interview hinges on a simple question: what on Earth first attracted him to the billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein? 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