The younger brother of King Charles III, already dismissed by the monarch for his closeness to sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, who died in prison in 2019, has found himself at the heart of a new scandal. On Thursday, December 12, the media discovered that a confidant of Prince Andrew was suspected by the British authorities of being a spy in the pay of the Chinese Communist Party.
This man appealed after being banned from entering the UK, but it was rejected on Thursday. The publication of a judicial decision put the media on the trail of the prince’s friend. Referred to as H6 by the British judiciary, who requested his anonymity, this man was so close to the Duke of York that the latter had made him his business adviser, invited him to his birthday party in 2020, and asked him to act on his behalf to find business partners in China.
The circumstances and date of the meeting between the 64-year-old prince and this Chinese man, who came to study in the UK in 2002 and graduated from the University of York, are not very clear. But H6’s activities came to the attention of the authorities when the contents of his cell phone, seized by police at a border checkpoint in 2021, revealed disturbing documents. Alerted by the intelligence services, the interior minister at the time, Suella Braverman, took the unprecedented decision to revoke H6’s right of residence for reasons of national security.
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