A private email, if it exists in the form now being waved around by tabloids and royal-watchers, is the kind of small thing that can detonate years later. King Charles is facing fresh questions after reports that he was warned in 2019 about Prince Andrew's financial entanglements and the alleged misuse of the Royal Family's name.
In brief, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office and released under investigation. King Charles issued a statement saying he would support the investigation and that 'the law must take its course.' Separately, an alleged 2019 whistleblower email reported by the Mail on Sunday and amplified elsewhere claims Charles and his office were alerted about Andrew's relationship with financier David Rowland.
The report at the center of this latest flare-up traces back to an anonymous whistleblower message allegedly sent in August 2019 to King Charles, then Prince of Wales, and to his private secretary Clive Alderton. News18, summarizing the Mail on Sunday's account, says the whistleblower warned that Andrew's business relationships risked exploiting the Royal Family's name.
Andrew Lownie, a royal biographer who has written critically about Andrew, goes further in his own commentary, saying the whistleblower told the palace that Andrew 'considers his relationship with David Rowland more important than that of his family.' Lownie also quotes a separate line he says...
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