Royal Family News: Claims Prince Andrew Used His Influence To Help A Tycoon

British royal family news shows that Prince Andrew is being talked up again, and not in a favorable way. More aspersions are being cast his way due to a, “controversial multi-millionaire … bank for the super-rich in Monaco,” according to The Mail on Sunday. Which is rather peculiar given the fact that try as they might royal experts cannot figure how or if he even makes a living in light of his mother the Queen having to reportedly foot his sex assault case legal bills.

Be that as it may, “Bombshell emails leaked … reveal how the Duke of York contacted the office of Albert II, the sovereign Prince of Monaco, on behalf of his financier friend David Rowland and asked for information about how to open a new bank in the principality.”

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At the time Andrew was the UK’s taxpayer-funded trade envoy and he offered to provide help to the Rowland family before meeting with Prince Albert.

The bombshell comes on the heels of reports that, “Rowland, one of the Tory Party’s top donors, paid off a £1.5 million loan in December 2017 given to Andrew by Banque Havilland, a Luxembourg-based bank controlled by the Rowland family.”

Apparently the MoS revealed two years ago how, “Prince Andrew quietly used his extraordinary Royal connections to plug Banque Havilland during his decade as UK trade envoy.”

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Banque Havilland, “offered discreet private banking services for the world’s billionaires and was named after David Rowland’s Channel Island home. Andrew publicly opened its Luxembourg headquarters in September 2009.”

Now it’s been discovered that a mere three months later, Andrew was behind the scenes helping his friend take the bank to the billionaires’ tax haven, Monaco.

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One email to Andrew from Heather Acheson, Prince Albert’s principal attaché, indicates that Andrew asked about opening a bank in the principality. Acheson wrote, “In answer to your question How difficult is it to get a banking license [sic] in and for Monaco? The Monegasque Authorities don’t restrict access to foreign banks on the territory; new banks are most welcome provided they fulfil the “fitness and properness” criteria.”

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In response, Andrew seemed to send a second question about the process, to which he was answered, “Please inform [me] if I may be of further assistance Your Highness.”

The next day Andrew forwarded the email chain to, “Jonathan Rowland, David Rowland’s son and then director of Banque Havilland.”

“Here is the Monaco first response,” Andrew wrote. “I will be going down in March to see P Albert so between now and then we can do more if required.”

In April 2012, Banque Havilland opened a subsidiary in Monaco and the Duke of York was the guest of honor at the opening ceremony.

Earlier this month, “it was reported that Andrew allowed a £1.5 million loan to be paid off by David Rowland in December 2017, despite rules telling Royals to avoid gifts that ‘would, or might appear to, place [them] under any obligation to the donor.”

Guess what? The revelation has, “renewed calls for MPs to investigate the Duke of York’s finances.” Or lack thereof.

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