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London, England Spouse SangthagThign ())), 1986; ay. 1996) • princess licanire Issue • princess Engage Names Andrew Albert Christian Edward House Windsor Father prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh Mother Flizabeth li • Gordonstoun li neation • Britannia RQyal Naval College Signature jgnature of Prince Andrew, Duke of York pug Military career Allegiance United Kingdom Service/branch RsYALNitri Years of active service 1979-2001 Rank Vice Admiral Battles/wars Falklands War Royal familyaf the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms ..,Badge of the House of Windsor • The KillP The Queen Consort o The Prince of Wales The Princess of Wales • Prince George of Wales • Princess Charlotte of Wales • Prince Louis of Wales O The Duke of Susses The Duchess of Sussex • The Princess Rotid • The Duke of York o princess Beatrice o Princess Eugenie • The Earl of Wessex and Forfar The Countess of Wessex and Forfar https:llen.wikipedia.orglwiki/Prince_Andrew,_Duke_of York 1/18 EFTA00266112 9/27/22. 10:57 AM Prince Andrew, Duke of York - Wikipedia o 10.1 Footnotes o 10 2 Citations • II Bibliography. • lLEmernal links Early life Gordonstoun school in Scotland Queen Elizabeth 11, Prince Philip, Prince Andrew, and Prince Edward at the opening of the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Alberta Andrew was in the eB an Suite of Baddimharn Palace on 19 February 1960 at 3:30 p.m.,[23 the ird chil and or an Prince Philip, D .k of rdinb rraR He was baptised in the palace's Music Room on April 1960. siblings, Charles, Andrew was the first child born to a reigning British monarch since the reign of Queen Victoria.= As with his Palace. Anne, and Fdward, Andrew was looked after by a governess, who was responsible for his early education at Buckingham LIZ] He was sent to Beatherdown School near Ascot in Berkshire.= In September 1973, he entered Gordonstoun, in northern Scotland, which his father and elder brother had also attended. He was nicknamed "the Sniggerer" by his schoolmates at he spent six Gordonstoun, because of "his penchant for off-colour jokes, at which he laughed inordinately".== While there, nal He months —from January to Junc 1977—participating in an exchange programme to Lairefieldciallegg School in Canada. left Gordonstoun in July two years later with A-levels= in English, history, and economics.= Military service Royal Navy The Royal Household announced in November 1978 that Andrew would join the Ray the following year. In December, he underwent various sporting tests and examinations at the Aircrew Selection Centre at RAF Biggin Hill, along with further tests and interviews at HMS Daedalus and interviews at the Admiralty Interview Board, HMS Suitap. During March and April 1979, pilot training, until he was accepted as a trainee helicopter pilot he was enrolled at the Royal Naval College Flight, undergoing September of the same year, Andrew was appointed as a midshipman , and and signed on for 12 years from II May 1979. On 1 Dartmouth. During 1979 he also completed the Royal Marines All Arms Commando entered Britannia Royal Naval College, Course for which he received his Green Beret.(121 He was commissioned as a sub-lieutena nr on I September 1981 and appointed to the Trained Strength on 22 October.= Air Force at RAF Leemiog, and After passing out from Dartmouth, Andrew went on to elementary flying training with the Royal helicopter.= After being awarded later, basic flying training with the navy at kijviS Seaha wk, where he learned to fly the Gazelle flying training until his wings, he moved onto more advanced training on the Sea King helicopter, and conducted operational carrier, HMS Invincible.(111 1982. He joined carrier-based squadron, 820 Naval Air S,quadro0, serving aboard the aircraft Falklands War 3/18 Mtps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Andrew,_Duke_of York EFTA00266113 EPS-lc-INS PfttNCE ANIC-saatA - SEA -7Wiff - icK(NICi. 9/27/22, 1047 AM Prince Andrew, Duke of York - Witipedie • The Duke of (Hour The Duchess of Gloucester eE34.0AL AB056 g.ifc, • The Duke of Kent The Duchess of Kent • Princes Alexandra • Prince Michael of Kent Princess Michael of Kent • v • I • Prince Andrew, Duke of York, &Ka GCVO. (Andrew Albert Christian Edward; born 19 February 1960) is a member of the British royal family. The third child and second son of Queen Elizabeth Il and Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh, he is eighth in the line of soreession to the British throne and the first person in the line who is not a descendant of his older brother, Icing Charles lit. Andrew served in the Royal Navy as a helicopter pilot and instructor and as the captain of a warship. During the Falklands War he flew on multiple missions including anti-surface warfare casualty evacuation_ and Fxocet missile decoy. In 1986, he married marriage, Sarah FergUign and was made Duke of York. They have two daughters: Princess Beatricg and princess Eugenie. Their separation in 1992, and divorce in 1996 attracted extensive media coverage. Andrew served as the UK's aggetatRepr esentative for International Trade and Investment for 10 years until July 2011. In 2014. the American-Australian campaigner alleged that, as a 17-year-old. she was sex-trafficked to Andrew b;\ criticism the American financier and convicted sex offender JeffreyEpstein. Andrew denied any wroncdoind.12111-1Following -1 and his honorary military affiliations and for his association with Epstein, Andrew resigned from public roles in May 2020,15 lawsuit over sexual royal charitable patronage were removed by the Queen in January 2022.11 He was the defendant in a civil assault filed b=in the State of New Yoh. The lawsuit was settled out of coon in February 2022.1 Conten s • 1 Early_life • 2 Military service O 2.1 Royal Navy, o 7,9 Falklands War O 2.3 Career naval officer • 3 Personal life o 3.1 Personal interests O 3.2 Relationship with Koo Stark o 3 3 MarrinCia3aahhIgUlan O 3,4 Health • 4 Allegations of sexual abuse O 4,11efirgy_ErLstein and related associations O 4.2 Newsnight interview o 4 3 Civil lawsuit o 4.4 Repercussions • 5 Activities and charitable work • 6 Controversies and other incidents o faSpecial Representative for International Trade and Investment O 6.2 Alleged comments on corruption and Kazakhstan O 63 Arms sales O 6.4 Reaction to election to the Royal Society, O 6.5 Allegations of racist language O 6.6 Allegations of ramming gates in Windsor Great Park o 6 7 Treatment of reputem, servants and others o 6 8 Finance and debt problems • 7 Titles ityka, honours and arms O 7.i Titles and mica O 7,2 Honour o 7.3 Arms • 8 Issue • 2Angsatry. • 10 References 2/18 https://en.wikipethe.orgAviki/Prince_AndrewSoke_of_York EFTA00266114 9127122.10:57 AM Prince Andrew, Duke of York - Wikipedia payment. The paper said that Andrew did not know of the situation.= In July 2011, Sarah stated that her multi-million pound debts had been cleared due to the intervention of her former husband, whom she compared to a "knight on a white charger's.= Health On 2 June 2022, Andrew tested positive for csOVID-19 and it was announced that he would not be present at the Platinum Jubilee National Service of Thanksglying at St Paul's Cathedral on 3 June. Allegations o Jeffrey Epstein and related associations Andrew was friends with Jeffrey Epstein, an American financier who was convicted of;ex traffirkjjap inna hlacaleLsv reported in March 2011 that the friendship was producing "a steady stream of criticism". and there were calls for him to step down from his role as trade envoy.= Andrew was also criticised the media after his former wife, d that he helped e for Epstein to pay off £15,000 of been photographed 'ling with Central Park during a visit II, Andrew's role as nninated and he y cut all ties with Epstein.= On 30 December 2014, a Florida court filing by lawyers Bradley J. Edwards and Paul G. Cassoll alleged that Andrew was one of several prominent figures, including lawyer Alan Dershowin and "a former prime minister",1 to have participated in sexual activities with a minor later identified (then known by her maiden name EMIE,W ) who was allegedly trafficked by Epstein.= An affidavit from as included in an earlier lawsuit from 2008 accusing the US illgke neftartMent of violating the Crime Victims' RiglitsAet during Epstein's first criminal case by not allowing several of his victims to challenge his plea deal; Andrew was otherwise not a party to the lawsuit."211 In January 2015, there was renewed media and public pressure for Buckingham Palace to explain Andrew's connection with Epstein.ini Buckingham Palace stated that "an suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically untrue", and later repeated the denialPAI= Requests from lawyers for a statement from Andrew about the allegations, under oath, were returned unanswered. Dershowitz denied the allegations in Mstatement and sought disbarment of the lawyers filing the suitilin221(80 Edwards and Cassell sued Dershowitz for defamation in January 2015; he countersued.= The two parties settlal in 2016 for an undisclosed financial sum.= Epstein sued Edwards for civil racketeering but later dropped his suit; Edwards countersued for malicious prosecution with the result that Epstein issued a public apology to the lawyer in December 2018.=I140 asserted that she had sex with Andrew on three occasions, including a trip to London in 2001 when she was 17,E and later in New York and on Little Saint James in the U.S. V v'r ds.1O She alleged Epstein paid her $15,000 after she had sex with Andrew i ndon."2" Fli: t lo show Andrew and were in the laces she alle ed their meetin: took lace.( lial Andrew and were a so p oto tog er wit his arm roun • a waist, with anipstein associate, Ghislaine Maxwell in the background,' though Andrew's supporters have repeatedly said the photo is fake and edited.= stated that she was pressured to have sex with Andrew and "wouldn't have dared object" as Epstein, through contacts, coTtghTve her "killed or abducted".l ) On 7 April 2015, Judge Kenneth Marra ruled that the "sex allegations made against Andrew in court papers filed in Florida must be struck from the public record" 1(411 Marra made no ruling as to whether claims by =are true or false, specifically stating that she may later give evidence when the case comes to court. stated she would not "be bullied back into silent':'al 3'uan "John" Alessi, who was Epstein's butler, stated in a deposition he filed for MC 6 defamation case against Maxwell that Andrew's hitherto unremarked visits to the Epstein house in Palm Beach were more uent than previously thought. He maintained that Andrew "spent weeks with us" and received "daily massages".= court documents associated with a defamation case between and Maxwell revealed that a second girls gave evidence alleging that Andrew had placed his hand on ei Fireast while in Epstein's mansion posing for a photo with his Zpittlaglinage puppet.= Later that month, Andrew released a statement that said, "At no stage during the limited time I spent with [Epstein] did I see, witness or suspect any behaviour of the sort that subsequently led to his arrest and conviction," though he expressed regret for meeting him in 2010 after Epstein had already pleaded guilty to sex crimes for the lust time.M1 At the end of August 2019 The New Republic published a September 2013 email exchange between John Brockman and Eygeny Morozov in which Brockman mentioned seeing a British man nicknamed "Andy" receive a foot massage from two lutosiien.wikipedle.orgiwilcUPrince Andraw._Duke_of York 6118 EFTA00266115 ANtiCer4 e 0 C- v1 YOgSrl•JIANSiOdrewNL=- 9/27/22, 10:57 AM rince An , Duk ' la Russian women at Epstein's New York residence during his last visit to the mansion in 2010, an a of irina's foot massage was His Royal Highness, Prince Andrew, the Duke of York".(21) in Jul 2021, an alleged victim of Epstein, said in a federal lawsuit that she had ork mansion in December 2010. In November 2021 Lawrence Visoski, Epstein's pilot, testified in co w flew in Epstein's private plane along with other prominent individuals, includi Billt t an he otice any sexual activity or wrongdoing on the planc.2 -1 Sin linc----- pilot David Rodgers in his logbook, and he testified that Andrew flew with Epstein and in following month a picture of Epstein and Maxwell, sitting at a cabin on the Queen's BallnoraLealate, around 1999, at the invitation of Andrew, was shown to the jury to establish their status as partners.= On 5 January 2022, Virginia Giuffit's former boyfriend, Anthony FiguCroa, said on Good Morning Britain that old him Epstein would take her to meet Prince Andrew. He said, "She called me when she was on the trip and she was ut she knew what thcy wanted her to do and she was really nervous and scared because she didn't know how to react to it". He alleged the meeting had taken place in Lotadon.UnlIn a court filing, Andrew's lawyers had previously referred to a statement by who alleged that in her bid to find victims for Epstein, ad asked her, "Do you know any girls who are kind of slutty?"11 The same month, , who as a I4-year-old was introduced b o Ghislaine Maxwell and ay Epstein and was a prosecution witness in Maxwell's trial, said in an intelisith theyMail that then l7-year-old told her in 2001 that she had slept with Prince Andrew. She stated, "And I said, '1 got to sleep with him'. She didn't seem upset about it. She thought it was pretty cool." in an Mt documentary, former royal protection officer Paul Page recounted Maxwell's frequent visits to • gham Palace, and suggested the two might h an intimate relationship,(1053 while Lich, Victoria Hervey added tha .resent at social occasions held by axwell. The Duke of York's name and contact numbers for Buckingham Sunnin i hill Park Wood Farm and Balmora appeared in Maxwell and Epstein's 'Little Black Book', a I contacts of th werful and famous friends.UN In February 2022, published a photograph o drevoalong with axwell...kiving a tour of Buckingham Palace to Andrew's guests ill Clintot and Kevin Spacey., with a member—al-the tour party descn ing Maxwell as "the one who led us into Buckingham Palace".an Tina Brown a journalist who edited Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and The Daily Beast, maintains Epstein described Andrew behind his back as an idiot but found him useful. Brown stated, "Epstein confided to a friend that he used to fly Andrew to obscure foreign markets, where governments were obliged to receive him, and Epstein went along as HRH's investment adviser. With Andrew as &outman, Epstein could negotiate deals with these (often) shady players".081 Newsnight interview Main ankle: Prince Andrew & the Epstein Scandal in November 2019, the i₹@Qs Newsnigbl arranged an interview between Andrew and presenter Emily Maitlia in which he recounted his friendship with Epstein for the first time.(102) In the interview, Prince Andrew says he met Epstein in 1999 through Maxwell. this contradicts comments made by Andrew's private secretary in 2011, who said the two met in "the early 1990s".LUM The Duke also said he did not regret his friendship with Epstein, saying "the people that I met and the opportunities that I was given to learn either by him or because ofhim were actually very useful". 11111 In the interview, Andrew denied having sex with n 10 March 2001, as she had accused, because he had been at home with his daughta ttending a party at ' pins in Woking with his elder daughter Beatrice.IMALL33 Prince Andrew also added that claims about dancing with him at a club in London while he was sweaty were false due to him temporarily los ility to sweat after an "adrenaline overdose" during the Falklands War.W-alla) According to physicians consulted by The Times an adrenaline overdose typically causes excessive sweating in humans.Wil He also said that he does not drink, despite account of him providing alcohol for them both. Accounts from other people have supported his statement that e oes not drink.U121I2a= said that he had sta ed i mansio or three da 2010 after Epstein's conviction for sex offences against a mg the location as e to stay". The Du id that he met Epstein for the sole purpose of breaking off any future relationship with him.U221 He also said that he would be willing to testify under oath regarding his associations with Epstein.= In July 2022 it was announced that a film would be made of the preparations for the interview and the interview itself. Shooting was planned to start in November 2022. According to Deadline. Scoop is being written by Peter Moffat.U2a) Civil lawsuit !I Main ariide Prince Andrew https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrinceAndrew,_Duke_of York 7/18 EFTA00266116 9127122, 10:57 AM Duke of York - Widpedia In August 2020, anti-child trafficking protesters chanting aed bile! aedophile!" referencin thered outside Buckingham Palace, and videos of the protest went viral. gust 2021, royal biographer maintained Prince Andrew's reputation with the public was damaged beyond repair.= In 2020, prosecutors seeking accmcs to Andrew made a formal mutual legal assistance regugg to the British government.afal It was reported in August 2021 that American authorities were pessimistic about being able to interview Andrew.= In January 2022, Andrew's social media accounts were deleted, his page on the royal family's website was rewritten in the past tense and his military affiliations and patronages were removed to put an emphasis on his departure from public life.= He also stopped using the style 11ManyaUliglumm (HRH) though it was not formally remove,dian In the same month, York Racecourse announced that it would rename the Duke of York Stakes,UJ and Prince Andrew Higfraighgul in Nova Scotia, which had announced two years earlier that it was considering a name change because the name "no longer reflects the values of the community",= stated that it would have a new name at the next academic year.ilfin In February 2022, IlelfamCity C.00wil and the Northern Ireland Assembly. decided not to fly a union flag for Andrew's birthday.= In the same month the Mid and East Antrim Borough Council announced that they would hold a debate in June 2022 regarding a motion to rename Prince Andrew Way in Camiglifergus.W121 On 27 April 2022 York City Council unanimously voted to remove Andrew's ftessIgatalkCity.= Eaehael Maskell i6211C.D11111 MP said Andrew was the "first to ever have their freedom removed".a2n There have also been calls to remove the Duke of York title.U24 In March 2022, Andrew made his first official appearance in months, helping the Queen to walk into Westminster Abbey for a memorial service for his father, the Duke of Edinburgh.Lini There was a mixed reaction by commentators to his presence, with some saying that it would send the wrong message to victims of sexual abuse "about how powerful men are able to absolve themselves from their conduct" and others arguing that his appearance was required as "a son, in memory of his father".U1-41 In June 2022, The Telegraph reported that Andrew had asked the Queen to be reinstated as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, to use his HRH (His Royal Highness) title and to be allowed to appear at official events due to his position as a 'prince of the blood'. MO In the same month, he took part in private aspects of the Garter Day ceremony, including lunch and investiture of new members, but was excluded from the public procession following an intervention by his brother Charles and his nephew William that banned him from appearing anywhere the public could see him. Andrew's name featured on one of the lists showing this was a last minute decision. In June 2022 Rachael Maskell MP introduced a Removal of Titles' bill in the House of Commons. If passed this bill will enable Andrew to be stripped of his Duke of York title and other titles. Maskell maintains 80% of York citizens want Andrew to lose all connection with their eity.U711 The proposed bill will also enable other people considered unworthy to lose their titles. The monarch or a committee of Parliament would be able to remove a title.U211 The bill is due to get its second reading on 9 December 2022.11121 In August 2022, it was reported that the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (RAVEC) had assessed the security threat against Andrew and concluded that he should keep his taxpayer-funded police bodyguards, at an annual cost estimated to be between £500,000 and £3 million.= In early 2021 there were at least two trespassing incidents reported at his Windsor property, and in December he was verbally abused by a woman as he was driving his care Following the fleathuf&conga on 8 September 2022, Andrew appeared in civilian clothing at various ceremonial events.UJ As he walked behind his mother's coffin in a funeral procession in Edinburgh on 12 September, a 22-year-old man shouted "Andrew, you're a sick old man"; the heckler was arrested and charged with committing a bregekofilma.= Andrew wore military uniform for a 15-minute vigil by the Queen's coffin at Westminster Hall on 16 September.= Lawyer Spencer Kuvin, who represented nine of Epstein's victims, was critical of Andrew's public role in the lead-up to the funeral and stated that "he is attempting now to see if he can rehabilitate his image in the public."= New York lawyer Mariann Wang, who represented up to 12 Epstein's victims described Andrew's public profile as "quite outrageous" and "harmful for any survivor of trauma to see an abuser or their enablers continue to reap the benefits of privilege, status and power."LIBM Activities and charitable work https://en.wikipedia.orgAviki/Psince_Andrew,_Duke_of_York 9/18 EFTA00266117 9/27/22, 10:57 AM Prince Andrew, Duke of York - Wikipedia On 13 January 2022, it was announced that his royal patronages had been handed back to the Queen to be distributed among other members of the royal family.1223 Controversies and other incidents Special Representative for international Trade and Investment The Duke of York with Azerbaijani President Elam Aliy_ey, 2011 From 2001 until July 2011, Andrew worked with UK Trade Rc Investment part of the Department for Business innovation and Skills, as the United Kingdom's Special Renrsentative for international Trade and investment. The post, previously held by Prince Edward, Duke of Kent involved representing and promoting the UK at various trade fairs and conferences around the world.U23 His suitability for the role was challenged in the Rouse of Commons by Shadow Justice Minister Chris lilyam in February 2011, at the time of the 2011 Libyan civil war on the grounds that he was "not only a very close friend of Sail al-Islam amid& but also ... a close friend of the convicted Libyan gun smuggler Tarek Kaituni".3222111213 Further problems arose as he hosted a lunch for Sakher El Matett a member of the corrupt Tunisian regime, at the Palace around the time of the Tunisian Revolutioa.= Andrew also formed a friendship with Ilham Ahysx, the president of AzerbaVan who has been criticised for corruption and for abuses of human rialitity Amnesty International. and visited him both during and after his tenure as the UK trade envoy. As of November 2014, Andrew had met Aliyev, on 12 occasions.12113 The controversies, together with his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, made him step down from the role in 20102213 Andrew did not receive a salary from the UK Trade & investment for his role as Special Representative, but he went on expenses- paid delegations and was alleged to have occasionally used trips paid for by the government for his personal leisure, which earned him the nickname "Ainniles Andy" by the press.12223 On 8 March 2011, The Daily Telegraph reported: "in 2010, the Prince spent £620,000 as a trade envoy, including £154,000 on hotels, food and hospitality and £465,000 on travel."(22-43 In NoVember 2020, and following reviews of emails, internal documents, and unreported regulatory filings as well as interviews with 10 former bank insiders, Bloomberg Businessweek reported on Andrew using his royal cachet and role as Special Representative for International Trade and Investment for helping David Rowland and his private bank, parigne Havilland, with securing deals with clients around the world.= The Rowland family are among the investment advisers to Andrew,3226) and he was present for the official opening ceremony of their bank in July 2009)2O Alleged comments on corruption and Kazakhstan As the United Kingdom's Special Trade Representative, Andrew travelled the world to promote British businesses. It was revealed in the United States diplomatic cables leak that Andrew had bccn reported on by Tatiana Gfoeller the United States Ambassador inSyrgyzatan, discussing bribery in Kyrgyzstan and the investigation into the M-Yamamah arms deal. The Duke, she explained, "was referencing an investigation, subsequently closed, into alleged kickbacks a senior Saudi royal had received in exchange for the multt-year, lucrative DALSystems contract to provide equipment and training to Saudi security forces...ELM The dispatch continued: "His mother's subjects seated around the table roared their approval. He then went on to 'these (expletive) journalists, especially from the National Guardian WA, who poke their noses everywhere' and (presumably) make it harder for British businessmen to do business. The crowd practically clapped!"Ul Earlier in 2010, it was revealed that the Kazakh= President's billionaire son-in-law Timur Kulibaysx paid Andrew's representatives EIS million — £3 million over the asking price — via offshore companies, for Andrew's Surrey mansion, Sunninghill Park. Kulibayev frequently appears in US dispatches as one of the men who have accumul s in gas-rich Kazakhstan. 2221 It was later revealed that Andrew's office tried to get a crown estate property close to for Kulibayev at that time.t In May 2012, it was reported that Swiss and Italian police investigating "a network of personal and business relationships" allegedly used for "international corruption" were looking at the activities of Enviro Pacific investments which charges "multi- million pound fees" to energy companies wishing to deal with Kazakhstan.321U The trust is believed to have paid £6 million https://en.wildperlia.orgAviki/Prince_Andrew,Siuke_of York 11/18 EFTA00266118