Andrew Windsor ‘shared sensitive UK trade secrets with Jeffrey Epstein’

Andrew appears to have shared confidential reports with Jeffrey Epstein in his role as the UK’s trade envoy, newly released emails reveal.

Emails from the Epstein files show the ex-prince sharing confidential details of investment opportunities and reports of trade visits.

The former Duke, who served as trade envoy between 2001 and 2011, appeared to send the paedophile financier details of his upcoming trips to Singapore, Hong Kong and Vietnam on October 7 2010.

After the visits, on November 30, he then appeared to forward official reports of those trips, sent by his then-special assistant Amit Patel, to Epstein.

As a trade envoy, Andrew was meant to be bound by a duty of confidentiality over sensitive, commercial, or political information from these official visits.

The ex-prince previously told Newsnight in 2019 he had cut off contact with Epstein during a visit to New York in December 2010.

However on Christmas Eve that year, he emailed the convicted sex offender a confidential briefing on investment opportunities in the reconstruction of Helmand Province, Afghanistan, which was being funded by UK government money.

Less than two months later, Andrew suggests Epstein might invest in a private equity firm he visited a week before, telling the paedophile he ‘thought of you’.

Sir Vince Cable, who was business secretary at the time, told the BBC: ‘I was unaware of Andrew… sharing information about investment opportunities [in Afghanistan] before, this is the first I’ve heard of it.’

Andrew’s reputation has collapsed over revelations about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, with the latest batch of documents released by the Department for Justice fueling criticism of the ex-prince.

The former Duke of York has always denied any accusations of wrongdoing.

Images appear to show him crouching over an unidentified woman in what appears to be Epstein’s New York mansion.

A letter released in the latest Jeffrey Epstein files also claimed that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor asked an exotic dancer for a threesome.

The former prince and Epstein reportedly asked the woman to ‘engage in various sex acts’ at the paedophile’s Florida home.

Andrew has also been linked to a fresh police investigation into reports that Epstein allegedly sent a second woman to have a sexual encounter with the former prince at the Royal Lodge.

The alleged incident happened at the royal estate in 2010, when the woman, who is not British, was in her 20s.

Brad Edwards, who also represented Andrew’s accuser, Virginia Giuffre, before her death last year, told BBC News the woman was given a tour of Buckingham Palace afterwards.

Giuffre was one of the most prominent sex trafficking victims of Epstein.

She accused Andrew of assaulting her on three occasions when she was 17 and she sued the former prince in 2021. Andrew has repeatedly denied her claims, but he agreed to pay her an undisclosed sum as an out-of-court settlement.

Giuffre was found dead in her Australian home on April 25, 2025.

The former prince moved out of Windsor’s Royal Lodge at the beginning of February.

But accusations have followed Andrew into the Wood Farm cottage in Sandringham, where he will stay before the Marsh Farm manor is ready in April.

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