Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has walked into a ‘honey trap’, a royal expert has told the Express.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has “walked into a honey trap”, a royal historian has said in an exclusive interview with the Daily Express. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly the Duke of York, has come under scrutiny following the latest controversy surrounding his associations with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The palace formally announced that Andrew, who has denied all accusations against him, has been stripped of his princely title and will be known simply as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, in response to mounting reputational risk and public pressure.

In a special regal edition of Daily Expresso, JJ Anisobi interviewed Andrew Lownie to unpack explosive, never-before-heard revelations about former Prince Andrew’s controversial past and the allegations still dogging the once-Duke of York. In the interview, Anisobi pointed to Mountbatten-Windsor’s years serving as the UK’s Special Representative for International Trade and Investment, a role that saw him undertake numerous state-funded trips around the world on behalf of the British government and the taxpayer.

Royal biographer exposes new details of Andrew’s secret life (Image: YouTube)

These overseas visits were officially intended to promote British business interests, although they were sometimes combined with private holidays and drew criticism at times over their cost and the nature of some of his business connections.

“If Andrew’s gone on these essentially state-sponsored trips around the world, acting in these disgusting ways, surely foreign intelligence officers must have huge amounts of dirt and evidence about him,” Anisobi tells the expert.

Lownie, author of Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, replied: “Yeah, well, one of the things is they do honey traps and Andrew was a classic person who walked into all this. So wherever he went, you know, girls were provided. It might be a translator, it might be a secretary, it might be going to a nightclub and just picking up girls behind the scenes.

“I mean that’s how a lot of the nightclubs, for example, in Kazakhstan operated, they were basically pickup joints. So we know, I mean, not just from a whole series of testimonies that there’s kompromat.”

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has a controversial past (Image: Getty)

Lownie then goes on to say that Tim Riley, a Cambridge academic, told him that “we know that there’s a policeman called Mark Dugan who was given some of the videos that Epstein used to take of people that he was basically putting out. He had cameras all over his houses. Andrew was filmed in the Epstein property. Some of the stuff was given to Mark Dugan, a Palm Beach police officer, by the investigators because they were worried that it would be suppressed in America. And Mark Dugan, for some reason, took that to Russia and is now in the hands of Putin.”

Andrew has consistently and strenuously denied all allegations against him.