The previous Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has revealed what occurred throughout his “weird” assembly with disgraced Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
Boris Johnson speaks about assembly with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (Picture: Getty)
Boris Johnson has spoken about how he felt “sorry” for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor throughout a “weird” assembly with him when he was commerce envoy for the UK. The disgraced former Duke of York now lives in exile in Norfolk after the most recent tranche of Jeffrey Epstein paperwork emerged, which featured a number of embarrassing particulars about his affiliation with the convicted paedophile.
Final month, Andrew was additional humiliated after being arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public workplace and launched 11 hours later below investigation. His arrest got here after the Epstein information confirmed that he could have shared confidential data with the late US financier throughout his time because the UK’s commerce envoy.
Andrew has at all times denied any wrongdoing.
Boris Johnson says he felt sorry for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (Picture: Getty)
In his newest column for the Every day Mail, the previous Prime Minister spoke about how he went to Buckingham Palace to have tea with Andrew, when the latter was a commerce envoy and he was nonetheless Mayor of London.
They spoke about concepts and plans on make the capital “much more enticing to the world’s billionaire traders”.
Ms Johnson mentioned: “I might inform that our solutions hadn’t actually glad him, and that he had visions of billionaires being waved via Heathrow and thru a collection of inexperienced and deferential visitors lights to look hungrily at constructing websites being cleared of pesky heritage buildings.
“As we left, I’m instructed I made some salty and unworthy remarks. However in a manner I felt a bit sorry for him. He was the second son in a system that insisted on male primogeniture. The end result was that he didn’t have a task. However now, he does.”
Elsewhere, Mr Johnson revealed that he needed to ban Andrew from a significant royal occasion for worry of embarrassing the late Queen Elizabeth after his disastrous 2019 BBC Newsnight interview.
“This time I needed to go to Windsor to interrupt the unhealthy information. He was not thrilled. I attempted to cheer him up.
“Look, I mentioned, he wanted to be a bit humble. He needed to perceive how individuals felt about issues, ever since that disastrous interview on Newsnight.”
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