Thread by @jebrittan2

If I was investigating #Epstein and #PrinceAndrew I would take a really good look at this web of connections:

#AmandaStaveley #DavidRowland
#Barclays
#UAERoyals
#QatarRoyals

I’ll start a thread with Amanda...

And what’s happening with Newcastle Utd thetimes.co.uk/article/newcas…

‘Amanda Louise Staveley is a British businesswoman notable chiefly for her connections with Middle Eastern investors. In 2008 Staveley played a prominent role in the investment of £7.3 billion in Barclays by the ruling families of Abu Dhabi and Qatar, and
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_St…

and by the Qatari sovereign wealth fund.’

My late father’s boss at QEAF became CEO of QIA, this same fund
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulla_b…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar_Inv…
I met him as a Sherborne Schoolgirl and later in Mayfair as a young Emir Tamim’s mentor when he was Qatar’s military attache

@VRSVirginia’s Wikipedia page

Between 2000 and 2002, Giuffre was closely associated with Epstein and Maxwell. In 2001 Giuffre was allegedly first trafficked to Prince Andrew.

The first of 3 times.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_…

This is Prince Andrew meeting Amanda in November 2001

AS ‘She was the perfect guide to the world of trade and deals into which the Prince had suddenly been pitched as Britain's trade envoy.

Indeed, there could hardly have been a more mutually beneficial relationship than this one between the brilliantly

dailymail.co.uk/femail/article…

connected but commercially gauche Prince and the beautiful deal-maker. Each has been able to open doors for the other.

No one who knows Amanda thinks she needed a royal leg-up to establish herself - though being Prince Andrew's girlfriend for two years was hardly a hindrance’

I wonder if Amanda has been asked about #Epstein and the “Filthy Rich” Netflix Documentary. What she might think about the timing of @VRSVirginia’s very serious allegations
It’s quite shocking how some girls are elevated socially whilst others are shunned
netflix.com/gb/title/80224…

#Fergie debt👇

Mr Rowland was invited to Balmoral as Andrew's guest in 2010 and reportedly met the Queen and had tea with Prince Charles. Four months later, Mr Rowland paid £40,000 to help clear the massive debts of the Duke's former wife Sarah Ferguson.

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7…

Inverness Asset Management
Blackfish Money Plus+ Fund
IAM is a company owned 60 per cent by Blackfish and 40 per cent by HRH Prince Andrew.

Blackfish will work with IAM marketing the funds. Introductions will largely be from contacts of IAM, consisting of Royal Families, HNW

families and Heads of State and government institutions. Income is tax free.’

‘Chris Bryant, a former Foreign Office Minister in Gordon Brown's government, said the revelation of Andrew's stake in IAM is more damaging than the disclosure in the 2017 'Paradise Papers' that money

from the Queen's private estate had been invested in a Cayman Islands fund.

'This is far more significant because it is a senior member of the Royal Family engaged in offshore shenanigans,' he said. 'The word that comes to mind is entitlement, really. Because he is a Duke, he

can get away with anything.'

The Duke of York declined to provide a comment for publication. Jonathan Rowland declined to comment for legal reasons’

Oh and not to forget the export of Sherborne whilst he was UK Trade Envoy
#QatarRoyals
#SherborneShame

https://twitter.com/jebrittan2/status/1196344497589964801?s=21

I like this quote too

‘And Chris Bryant, who was a Foreign Office Minister at the time Andrew held his trade envoy role, demanded a parliamentary inquiry into the Duke's business behaviour, which he called 'morally offensive'. 'It all just stinks,' said Mr Bryant. 'I don't think

he has ever been able to draw a distinction between his own personal interest and the national interest. It's morally offensive. Either the Foreign Affairs Committee or the Public Accounts Committee should launch an inquiry into this.’

Nigel Mills, a Tory member of the Public

Accounts Committee before the Election was called, also demanded an inquiry, adding: 'He clearly was never fit to hold that office. 'Anyone in public life knows these rules about separating your own interests from those of the job you are doing. What he is doing here isn't even

close to the line – it's a million miles over it.'

Duke and his close friend Jonathan Rowland discussed secretly continuing business relationship

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7…

‘I am deeply, deeply grateful to your father for making this possible," he wrote. "I have a completely different outlook on life and its possibilities now. Whilst trying not to let it go to my head! Very difficult!"’
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‘This included the Duke taking Mr Rowland on taxpayer funded trade missions to Saudi Arabia and China and plugging the Rowland's private bank to help them land rich clients.

Leaked messages showed that Andrew and Mr Rowland discussed secretly continuing

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8…

their business relationship 'under the radar' to escape media scrutiny over the Duke's links to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, prior to the prince being forced to quit as the UK's trade envoy.’

My final tweet is to register my disgust at this deal with MBS

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