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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor advocated for Jeffrey Epstein while accompanying the late queen on an official UK state visit to the United Arab Emirates in 2010, according to newly released emails.
former prince wrote to epstein A reference to UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, regarding a meeting with “Abdullah” on 24 November of the same year.
Mountbatten-Windsor, who was Duke of York at the time, wrote: “You’re in the big time. He thinks you’re great and he wants to introduce you to Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed.”
On the date in question, Mountbatten-Windsor was on a state visit He had traveled to the UAE with his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, father Prince Philip and Britain’s then Foreign Secretary William Hague.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan was the crown prince of Abu Dhabi at the time and will become the ruler of the emirate and president of the United Arab Emirates in 2022. There is no suggestion of wrongdoing by Sheikh Mohammed or Sheikh Abdullah.
The emails are the latest revelations that show how Mountbatten-Windsor’s relationship with Epstein blurred into her official roles as a working royal and special representative for UK trade and investment.
Mountbatten-Windsor, younger brother of King Charles III, held the role of trade representative from 2001 to 2011 and was a working royal until she stepped down from public duties in 2019 following the controversy over her relationship with Epstein.
Epstein was convicted in 2008 of soliciting prostitution of a minor. He had completed a period of house arrest for this offense in July 2010, just a few weeks before some of the discussions in the emails.
Files indicate Epstein himself was met Sheikh Abdullah Shortly before the state visit and he gave Mountbatten-Windsor Discussion Encouraging Sheikh to work with him.
These were that Sheikh could trust Epstein, that Epstein had financial expertise and that he was a “financier of extreme science”. The fourth argument was the single word “fun”.
Epstein responded with details of Mountbatten-Windsor’s meeting with the Foreign Minister by suggesting that the three of them go on vacation together.
“Ask Abdullah for a date when we can all go on vacation,” he wrote.
However, there is no indication of any such holiday taking place an email On December 3, 2010, it was revealed that Epstein’s assistant was trying to set up a three-way phone call between the men.
The files also revealed that Epstein visited the UAE in August 2011, with several emails mentioning scheduled meeting Between Epstein and the Foreign Minister has been canceled at the last minute.
There was no immediate formal response to a request for comment from the UAE Foreign Ministry.
The files released by the US Department of Justice from the Epstein investigation contain a large amount of information relating to Mountbatten-Windsor.
Epstein was found dead in a New York jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
There was no immediate response to a request for comment from representatives of Mountbatten-Windsor or Buckingham Palace.
