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Buckingham Palace and the Six-Year Silence Over Andrew’s Trade Envoy Emails (6/2/26)

11 min · 2. juni 2026
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Emails reportedly handed to Buckingham Palace in 2020 appeared to show that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor shared confidential government information while serving as a UK trade envoy. According to the report, the cache contained more than 30,000 emails, allegedly from the account of British businessman Jonathan Rowland, an associate of Andrew’s, and included material connected to Andrew’s financial dealings. The emails were reportedly sent to the Lord Chamberlain six years ago, months after Andrew stepped back from royal duties following his disastrous Newsnight interview over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Andrew was later arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office over allegations that he passed sensitive government information to Epstein while working as a trade envoy; he denies wrongdoing. The most damaging part is the timeline: if these emails were already in Palace hands in 2020, then the question becomes what Buckingham Palace knew, what it did with that information, and whether serious concerns about Andrew’s trade envoy conduct were allowed to sit quietly for years. The report also ties the emails to earlier claims that Andrew requested confidential Treasury information about Iceland’s financial crisis in 2010 and then passed details to Jonathan Rowland before a business move involving Kaupthing Bank. With police inquiries still ongoing, the Palace declined to comment, citing the investigation, but the story adds another layer to the broader Andrew scandal: Epstein was not the only issue — the allegations now reach into Andrew’s official government role, his business contacts, and the possibility that warning signs were sitting inside the royal household years before public accountability caught up. to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com source: Palace was given emails about Andrew’s trade envoy activities six years ago, report says | UK news | The Guardian [https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/30/palace-was-given-emails-about-andrews-trade-envoy-activities-six-years-ago-report-says]

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