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Emails from the recently-released batch of Epstein files appear to show the former prince passing on reports of visits to Singapore, Hong Kong and Vietnam and confidential details of investment opportunities.<\/p>\n
After the trips, on 30 November 2010, he appears to have forwarded official reports of those visits sent by his then-special adviser, Amit Patel, to Epstein, five minutes after receiving them.<\/p>\n
There were also details of investment opportunities in Afghanistan, described as “confidential”, which appear to have been passed on to Epstein on 24 December 2010.<\/p>\n
Under official guidance, trade envoys have a duty of confidentiality over sensitive, commercial, or political information about their official visits.<\/p>\n
The Buckingham Palace statement says that the King and Queen’s “thoughts and sympathies have been, and remain with, the victims of any and all forms of abuse”.<\/p>\n
Earlier on Monday the King had travelled to Clitheroe where a heckler shouted: “How long have you known about Andrew?” The rest of the crowd booed the man putting the question.<\/p>\n
The Buckingham Palace intervention follows an earlier statement from the spokesperson for the Prince and Princess of Wales,<\/a> saying they were “deeply concerned” by the latest revelations about Epstein.<\/p>\n “Their thoughts remain focused on the victims,” said a Kensington Palace spokesperson, ahead of Prince William’s visit to Saudi Arabia this week.<\/p>\n Since the release of three million more documents related to Epstein, there has been growing pressure on Mountbatten-Windsor, with claims a second woman was sent to the UK<\/a> by Jeffrey Epstein for a sexual encounter with him. <\/p>\n