{"id":3477,"date":"2025-04-06T09:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T09:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/3477\/"},"modified":"2025-04-06T09:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T09:39:13","slug":"king-charles-drawn-into-prince-andrew-spy-scandal-in-uk-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/3477\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles drawn into Prince Andrew spy scandal in UK \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

The scandal\u00a0erupted<\/a>\u00a0in December, when\u00a0it emerged that\u00a0Yang, had enjoyed a close friendship with Prince Andrew, the brother of King Charles. Andrew, who is the Duke of York, already was a figure of disgrace in Britain over his close ties to the late American pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. That made Yang the prince\u2019s \u201conly light at the end of the tunnel,\u201d according to Hampshire\u2019s testimony, the\u00a0BBC reported<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yang eventually became a close adviser on Andrew\u2019s business ventures, authorized to operate on the prince\u2019s behalf as he sought Chinese investors for an initiative called the Eurasia Fund. Moreover, documents show details of Andrew\u2019s \u201ccommunication channel\u201d with China\u2019s Xi, including the sending of annual birthday wishes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

King Charles was aware of Andrew\u2019s initiatives, Hampshire claimed in his testimony<\/a>. \u201cI have had two meetings with the Duke and His Majesty to discuss what the Duke can do moving\u00a0forwards\u00a0in a way\u00a0that is\u00a0acceptable to His Majesty,\u201d Hampshire said, the\u00a0Associated Press reported<\/a>. \u201cIt is also of note that, amongst other topics, the Eurasia Fund and (an investor) were discussed on both occasions with His Majesty,\u201d according to the testimony.<\/p>\n

Buckingham Palace released a statement on Friday admitting to meetings by Charles with Andrew and an adviser to hear proposals for independent funding.\u00a0But it denied that Yang was involved in the meetings.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile His Majesty met with the Duke and his adviser to hear outline proposals for independent funding over the past year, the individual [Yang] was not mentioned<\/a> at any time or in any way as part of these discussions,\u201d the palace said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The scandal\u00a0erupted\u00a0in December, when\u00a0it emerged that\u00a0Yang, had enjoyed a close friendship with Prince Andrew, the brother of King…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[521,1395,2001,2002,40,807,518,2003,12,2004,16,15,1773],"class_list":{"0":"post-3477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-asia","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-communications","12":"tag-espionage","13":"tag-immigration","14":"tag-keir-starmer","15":"tag-king-charles-iii","16":"tag-law-enforcement","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-tunnels","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-xi-jinping"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114290357983753906","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}