Why Prince Andrew’s relationship with a Chinese businessman is driving headlinesrevealed at 18:15 Greenwich Mean Time
Sean Coughlan
Royal correspondent
What has actually fascinated folks about this story hasn’t
simply been the allegations that Prince Andrew was being focused by a Chinese
affect operation.
What made it much more stunning was the perception it gave
into how the prince was seen by these claimed to be attempting to construct hyperlinks with
him.
He is “in a determined state of affairs and can seize onto something”, mentioned
a word discovered within the possession of the Chinese businessman, Yang Tengbo,
based on courtroom paperwork.
It suggests a way of isolation in addition to somebody needing
to discover a solution to get extra funding.
The encouragement for Prince Andrew to maneuver out of his
Windsor mansion, and the elimination of the King’s monetary help, have been
described within the media because the “Siege of Royal Lodge”.
He is a determine beneath
monetary strain, who has been urged to not seem at a household event. It’s
an enormous change from when he was globetrotting to satisfy entrepreneurs across the
world because the UK’s commerce envoy and operating the Pitch@Palace scheme, with its
Chinese offshoot.
That all may recommend why Prince Andrew might need been
seen as susceptible to enterprise contacts with an ulterior agenda.
Although Prince Andrew has mentioned that in his conferences with
Yang Tengbo nothing of a delicate nature was ever mentioned.