Prince Andrew, Another Sex Scandal; Some in US Want Him Barred from Entering « ON MY WATCH – the writings of SamHenry. The Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie have to live through yet another scandal involving their parents in less than a year both of which ride just below the legal radar. Their mother was found to have offered an undercover journalist money for access to Andrew who serves as a trade representative for Britain.
Then came the unthinkable: it has been rumored that Prince Andrew played a role in the release of the convicted Lockerbee bomber of Pan Am flight 103. The convicted bomber is safely in Libya, and has been alive and well for months, having been mistakenly released for humanitarian reasons due to ill health. Americans are unforgiving when it comes to this bombing. It was an act of war carried out on civilians. Now certain circles want Andrew banned from the US including Conservative blogger and former Connecticut State Senator, Kevin Rennie: But that is not the end of Andrew’s developing troubles. Like this: Like Loading... 'Rude' Prince Andrew shocks US ambassador | UK news.
Prince Andrew launched a scathing attack on British anticorruption investigators, journalists and the French during an "astonishingly candid" performance at an official engagement that shocked a US diplomat. Tatiana Gfoeller, Washington's ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, recorded in a secret cable that Andrew spoke "cockily" at the brunch with British and Canadian business people, leading a discussion that "verged on the rude". During the two-hour engagement in 2008 at a hotel in the capital, Bishkek, Andrew, who travels the globe as a special UK trade representative, attacked Britain's corruption investigators in the Serious Fraud Office for what he called "idiocy".
He went on to denounce Guardian reporters investigating bribery as "those (expletive) journalists … who poke their noses everywhere". In the cable from the US embassy to Washington in October 2008, Gfoeller wrote: "Rude language à la British … [Andrew] turned to the general issue of promoting British economic interests abroad. Prince Andrew bats for Britain - at taxpayers' expense | UK news. Prince Andrew (right) talks to Prince Turki al-Faisal, Saudi ambassador to the UK, in Jeddah in 2005. Photograph: Zainal Abd Halim/Reuters Few of even his closest friends would ever describe the Queen's second son as Prince Charming. Prince Andrew does brusque, blunt and boorish, but very rarely charming, especially to those in inferior social positions to himself and to journalists – even those who go to interview him about his mission as Britain's special representative for international trade.
It is an occupation that takes the Duke of York around the world at taxpayers' expense and often by the most expensive form of transport. "It's not the quickest way – it's the most cost-effective and sensible way to use the time I have available. Not that such jaunts are the most expensive. He was batting for Britain again last week, accompanying his parents on their official visit to the Gulf.
"If you are a public figure you have to accept the rough with the smooth. Prince Andrew and the Kazakh billionaire | UK news. Prince Andrew's dealings with the allegedly corrupt regime in Kazakhstan are already causing him awkward publicity. One exiled businessman seeking asylum in Britain is alleging in a high court battle that laundered money was used to buy the prince's former house at Sunninghill Park in 2007, for £3m over the asking price. The 12-bedroom mansion, provided by the Queen for Andrew and Sarah Ferguson after their marriage in 1986, was bought through apparently concealed links to a series of offshore companies.
It was purchased by a wealthy figure in the Kazakh regime, Timur Kulibayev, for £15m after five years on the market. In September, a spokesman for Kulibayev denied the use of "corrupt" funds and said the allegations against him were "politically motivated". The dilapidated property has remained vacant ever since. Prince Andrew and Ashkenazi have dined and gone to Royal Ascot together. One western oilman said: "Kulibayev and his ilk prey on foreigners and locals alike. " Prince Andrew demanded special BAE briefing | UK news. Prince Andrew used his royal position to demand a special briefing from the Serious Fraud Office weeks before launching a tirade against the agency's "idiotic" investigators at a lunch with businessmen in Kyrgyzstan. The prince, who is also a UK trade ambassador, was briefed on the investigation into allegations of bribery by arms firm BAE at Buckingham Palace in May 2008. Soon after, believing he was speaking in private to a group of sympathetic British businessmen, he appeared to condone bribery, and scorned the work of the SFO's anti-corruption investigators in investigating the Saudi royal family.
Andrew's remarks , which have already led to calls for his resignation as the official British trade envoy to the Middle East and Asia, emerged this week when the Guardian published a leaked diplomatic cable from the US ambassador who was also present at the event. Andrew's remarks were condemned by Vince Cable, the business secretary.