Queen Elizabeth pressed \u2060for her son Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor \u2060to be made a government trade envoy back in 2000, according to documents released on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Mountbatten-Windsor, brother of King Charles, served as the UK\u2019s Special Representative for International Trade and Investment between 2001 and 2011 in an unpaid role that allowed him to travel the world meeting senior business and government figures.<\/p>\n
David Wright, the chief executive of British Trade International, said that before the appointment was made, he had a \u201cwide-ranging discussion\u201d with the late \u2060queen\u2019s private secretary about Andrew\u2019s appointment.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Queen\u2019s wish is that the Duke \u200cof Kent should be succeeded in this role [as trade envoy] by the Duke of York,\u201d Wright said in one document \u200creleased on Thursday, referring to Mountbatten-Windsor\u2019s previous title.<\/p>\n
The government agreed to \u2060release 11 documents \u2060after an opposition party used a rare parliamentary device to request the publication of files about \u200cthe appointment of Mountbatten-Windsor.<\/p>\n
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Chris Bryant, a junior trade minister, said in a written statement to parliament that \u200cthere was \u200cno evidence that formal due diligence or security vetting was carried \u200cout at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queen Elizabeth pressed \u2060for her son Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor \u2060to be made a government trade envoy back in 2000,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[15345,1313,93455,93456,8910,93452,6615,93454,6769,1428,58934,9,24,63,1315,122,124,123,93453,6666],"class_list":["post-239169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-andrew-mountbatten-windsor","tag-british-royal-family","tag-british-trade-international","tag-chris-bryant","tag-david-wright","tag-duke-of-kent","tag-duke-of-york","tag-government-trade-envoy","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-king-charles","tag-misconduct-in-public-office","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queen-elizabeth","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-special-representative-for-international-trade-and-investment","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}