Andrew's closest aide, Dominic Hampshire, ensured that then-ambassador Liu Xiaoming was able to bypass certain security measures on the Windsor estate.
The Chinese ambassador was secretly ushered into Windsor's Royal Lodge for a business meeting with Prince Andrew just weeks after his disastrous BBC News night interview, court documents reveal.
Documents released as part of an appeal by Yang against a decision to bar him from the country on national security grounds show that even he acknowledged it would be 'damaging' for the ambassador to be seen meeting Andrew so soon after his interview with Emily Maitlis in which he discussed his relationship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Among them were details of the ambassador's visit to discuss the Pitch project, thought to have been in December 2019. In a witness statement, Tengbo Yang said that Liu Xiaoming 'was an early supporter of Pitch and wanted to know what was going on with the Duke and Pitch after the Maitlis interview He said he understood that Andrew drew a salary from Pitch and also described how he and three other investors had provided the scheme with an initial cash injection when it launched in China to the tune of around £50,000 each.
Documents show Andrew was planning to raise $3billion of international financing for a proposed 'Eurasia Fund' by using the royal family's reputation in countries such as China, Abu Dhabi and Bahrain.
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