An alleged Chinese spy was unmasked on Monday as the founder of the Duke of York’s money-making venture in China.
Yang Tengbo was named as the suspected foreign agent at the heart of the spy scandal after a court order giving him anonymity was lifted.
The Chinese businessman, who has mixed with figures from across the British establishment, was a founding member of Prince Andrew’s venture Pitch@Palace China.
The alleged Chinese spy with links to Prince Andrew and who made connections at the heart of the UK establishment has been named as Yang Tengbo, a businessman also known as Chris Yang.
Yang, whose identity was previously protected by an anonymity order, can be named after a judge lifted the ban on Monday afternoon.
In a statement, Yang said he had applied for the order to be lifted in order to issue a public denial about the claims made about him. He said he was not a spy and had “done nothing wrong or unlawful and the concerns raised by the Home Office against me are ill-founded”.
The ancient property empires that fund the King and the Prince of Wales have remained a closely guarded secret within the royal family and its small circle of advisers for centuries.
Even parliament has been denied access to the list of landholdings held by the royals.
A single future woke utterance by either should end with a trip to the Tower and hasty dispatch.
The King has severed the Duke of York’s “£1 million-a-year” allowance in recent weeks, it has emerged.
In an updated biography about the monarch, author Robert Hardman revealed that King Charles has instructed his Keeper of the Privy Purse to “sever” his brother’s living allowance.
The new chapters of Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story, serialised by the Daily Mail, includes a palace insider confirming that “the Duke is no longer a financial burden on the King”.
His finest hour came in 1982 when he returned, coated in glory, from Falklands War duty with a rose between his teeth. Andymania was rife and teenagers were reported to swoon in his presence. But alas from then on it was all downhill – his service record was sufficient to promise a successful career as a naval officer, but while on secondment to the Ministry of Defence he allegedly fell foul of the admirals, towering figures who weren’t prepared to put up with his high-handed manner.
To them he was a sailor, not a prince – and if he couldn’t conform to accepted standards of behaviour there was no place for him in the service.
His life is a train wreck.
The Duchess of Sussex has been cropped from a photograph shared online by the Royal family to mark Prince Harry’s 40th birthday.
The King and the Prince of Wales took the surprising step of using their official social media profiles to send the Duke of Sussex birthday wishes on Sunday.
The Royal family account on X, formerly Twitter, posted a message that said: “Wishing The Duke of Sussex a very happy 40th birthday today!” It was accompanied by a picture of the Duke, taken during an official royal engagement in Dublin in 2018, when the Sussexes were still working members of the family.
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Looks like Harry and Meghan have done it again — they’ve chewed up yet another American adviser.
Josh Kettler, the Santa Barbara-based consultant who’d been serving as chief of staff to the Duke and Duchess, reportedly resigned in August — after just three months on the job — becoming the latest member of the ever-expanding “Sussex Survivors Club,” as some former employees have taken to calling themselves. Before Kettler, there was Toya Holness, who was their global press secretary until 2022, and Christine Weil Schirmer, the onetime Pinterest communications director who quit as Harry and Meghan’s PR head in 2021. Samantha Cohen, Markle’s top aide and private secretary, departed the same year.
The latest ruling in a lawsuit seeking the release of the Duke of Sussex’s US visa records has been hidden from the public.
The case, brought by the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank in Washington DC, called on the US government to open its dossier on Prince Harry under freedom of information laws.
It questioned how the Duke had been able to move to the US having admitted in his memoir, Spare, that he had taken cocaine and other drugs.
Now that’s privilege.
The King is keen to find a way to “solve” the issue of the Duke of York’s living situation as a new television drama serves up a reminder of Prince Andrew’s fall from grace.
Charles, 75, is still hoping for a swift resolution to what those close to the King have called “the Andrew problem” by moving his brother from Royal Lodge in Windsor to more suitable accommodation.
Pals of the Duke of Sussex are said to be planning his return. The royals will be thrilled
Well knock me down with a very small feather, Prince Harry’s apparently bored and wants to come home. Eight years since he met Meghan, six years since he married her, four since they flounced off to America, he’s back in touch with old friends and advisers and seeking to “rehabilitate” his image. That’s quite some brass neck. He’s spent the intervening time saying he was hounded out of the land of his birth and had to take a “freedom flight” to Canada.
Meghan Markle’s lifestyle brand American Riviera Orchard is struggling to get off the ground as she’s having an issue finding a CEO, according to a report.
The Duchess of Sussex, 43, unveiled her new business venture in March teasing its impending launch. But six months later, there’s still no release date or information about the products customers can expect to be up for sale.
I used to feel sorry for Harry.
King Charles has fired the security team stationed at Prince Andrew’s longtime lavish mansion as the disgraced royal reportedly refused to “downsize” from the property.
Charles told the ten-man detail that their contracts would not be renewed in October at the 31-room Royal Lodge home, according to the Sun.
“They are all working the final weeks of their contract till the end of October. It’s not thought anyone is being lined up to replace them,” a palace inside told the outlet.
Andrew is the saddest of Princelings.
Vancouver police logged more than $44,000 on overtime during Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s brief February visit to British Columbia.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were in Vancouver(opens in a new tab) and Whistler(opens in a new tab) for three days between Feb. 14 and 16 to promote the Invictus Games, which will be held in British Columbia again in February 2025. Harry founded the multi-sport event for wounded, injured and sick armed forces personnel and veterans in 2014.
Why?
Celebrities in the Hamptons last weekend for a women’s business summit reportedly did their best to dodge being caught in photographs with Meghan Markle.
At the G9 Ventures Summer Summit hosted by power broker Amy Griffin, the Duchess of Sussex was seen in photos mingling with fashion designer and pal Misha Nonoo along with makeup mogul Bobbi Brown.
In the vein of you can’t keep baby in the corner, you can’t dump Tom Cruise in a supporting role. Except if you’re the royal family.
You can keep your missions, impossible and your guns, top, Scientology’s answer to Willy Loman has repeatedly in recent years happily taken back seat, a B-list, second-string parts in events when asked to by the House of Windsor.
