In November 2010, Mr Mountbatten-Windsor forwarded reports from visits to Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam and China to the disgraced financier five minutes after his special assistant had sent them to him.
He also forwarded Epstein a confidential brief on investment opportunities in Afghanistan’s Helmand province the following month.
Similar allegations against Lord Mandelson – claiming that he shared sensitive government information with Epstein when he was business secretary – have prompted a police investigation into the former Labour politician.
Emails from the Epstein files also show a close personal relationship between the then prince and Mr Rowland’s family around the time of the correspondence regarding Iceland.
In an email sent to Epstein several months earlier, in September 2009, an individual – whose name has been redacted by the US department of justice – said they “will finalise F summary for you next week. Can’t now cause she went to nepal paying for the first class flight with her rowland bank loan”.
“F” was the email nickname that Epstein and his associates often used to refer to Sarah Ferguson, Mr Mountbatten-Windsor’s ex-wife and long-time confidante.
“Rowland” could also refer to David Rowland, Jonathan Rowland’s father and the founder of Banque Havilland, who the former prince was also close to. In May 2010, Mr Mountbatten-Windsor sent an email to Epstein referring to David Rowland as his “trusted money man”.
Other emails, thought to be from David Stern, the former Duke of York’s then aide, show meetings between the royal and Jonathan Rowland in 2010. It includes a dinner that the pair attended in Hong Kong in October 2010.
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