Niall Donald

Now, Prince Andrew had a long association with him.

Before he was convicted, Geoffrey Epstein was ultimately convicted in the late 2000s of the offence of soliciting a minor, a very minor offence.

But despite his conviction, Prince Andrew stayed in contact with him the whole time.

He has been accused, Andrew, directly by a number of Epstein's victims of, you know, having basically sexually abusing them.

In effect, something he's denied, denied very publicly.

But it's not because of his sex crimes that Prince Andrew has been arrested.

He's been arrested really for leaking confidential information.

Yeah, so basically what he's accused of, like Prince Andrew was a useless old son of the Queen, really.

I mean, not that any of the others have shown much signs of being particularly useful, but nonetheless, Prince Andrew was a particularly, you know, the Queen was actually meant to be very fond of him.

He was, but his role I suppose is because he's not so directly in line with the throne.

He was given this job as a trade envoy, which is really a guy that's sent around with diplomatic missions to kind of drum up business for Britain.

And what he's accused of is that as part of these delegations, he hears information.

Like in particular, you know, there's a couple of trips, one to Hong Kong, I think, one to Vietnam, and another, interestingly, to Afghanistan, where he's a trade envoy.

The British state are over there, they're drumming up business for companies at home.

He hears all of this information as part of his job.

I mean, you know, he was actually also in a recently written book, he was, while he was, as an aside,

wasn't he meant to have had more than a dozen Thai women wheeled into him on one of these trade envoys to satisfy him.

So he was, and I mean, however, I don't know what he was doing as a trade envoy because he's notoriously the most uncharming and unpersonable individual you could come across.

But nonetheless, he obviously had access to this information.

And in one occasion, he's accused in