Andrew's aide told alleged spy Newsnight interview was 'ill advised'

A elder adjutant to Prince Andrew privately admitted to an alleged Chinese spy that the duke's BBC Newsnight interrogation had been a disaster, tribunal documents show.

Files disclosed to the BBC and different media organisations uncover however the prince's adjutant Dominic Hampshire thanked Yang Tengbo for lasting by the embattled duke successful the months aft helium had sought to explicate connected TV his relationship with enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein.

He told the Chinese businessman that the Newsnight quality had been "hugely ill-advised and unsuccessful".

Last period a tribunal rejected Mr Yang's entreaty against being banned from the UK, aft an quality appraisal that helium could beryllium secretly moving for the Chinese state. Mr Yang has denied each wrongdoing.

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