The BBC<\/a> said on Saturday that an archive of more than 30,000 emails was handed to the lord chamberlain, the most senior officer in the royal household, in 2020.<\/p>\nThe broadcaster said it had seen court documents to suggest the cache contained information about the former prince\u2019s financial dealings.<\/p>\n
Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested on his 66th birthday in February on suspicion of misconduct in a public office amid allegations that he passed sensitive government information to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein while employed as a government trade envoy.<\/p>\n
He denies wrongdoing.<\/p>\n
The palace said it was \u201cnot possible to provide any comment on these matters\u201d due to the \u201congoing police inquiry\u201d.<\/p>\n
Thames Valley police issued a fresh appeal for information last week. The force indicated it could also investigate any allegations of sexual misconduct and is understood to be examining a claim that the king\u2019s brother behaved inappropriately at Royal Ascot.<\/p>\n
The emails sent to the palace in 2020 were said to have come from the account of British businessman Jonathan Rowland, an associate of Mountbatten-Windsor, and were reportedly taken during a dispute with an unnamed colleague.<\/p>\n
The full contents of the emails are unknown, the BBC said, but they are understood to contain correspondence dating up to June 2013.<\/p>\n
The broadcaster reported that they had then been obtained by Kevin Stanford, the former majority owner of the fashion chain All Saints, who had been engaged in a separate dispute over investments in the failed Kaupthing Bank, linked to Rowland\u2019s father, David.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, the Telegraph reported that Mountbatten-Windsor had requested confidential information from the Treasury in 2010 about the financial crisis in Iceland.<\/p>\n
The newspaper obtained emails that showed he shared details of the briefing with Jonathan Rowland, passing on the information \u201cbefore you make your move\u201d.<\/p>\n
David Rowland had taken over the Luxembourg arm of Kaupthing Bank the previous year. It later became Banque Havilland and faced sanctions from regulators in the UK and the EU.<\/p>\n
The BBC said Jonathan Rowland had confirmed that the messages had been obtained from his account as part of legal proceedings. It added that it had seen a document from 2021 that appeared to show the archive had been sent to the lord chamberlain in May the previous year.<\/p>\n
The emails were said to have been forwarded to the palace just months after Mountbatten-Windsor had stepped down as a working royal. Authorities in Monaco and Luxembourg were also informed, the BBC said.<\/p>\n
His fall from grace had come after a disastrous interview on the BBC\u2019s Newsnight, in which he failed to apologise for his friendship with Epstein.<\/p>\n
The presenter Emily Maitlis had also asked Mountbatten-Windsor about allegations made by the late campaigner, Virginia Giuffre.<\/p>\n
Giuffre, who died by suicide last year aged 41, claimed she had been trafficked by Epstein to be abused by Mountbatten-Windsor. Although Mountbatten-Windsor denied her allegations and claimed not to have met her, he paid her an out-of-court settlement in 2022, thought to be worth about \u00a312m.<\/p>\n
In May 2020, the role of lord chamberlain was occupied by Lord Peel. The BBC said it had contacted him, but the palace had responded on his behalf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emails handed to Buckingham Palace six years ago appear to show that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor shared confidential information while…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-612099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}