Bombshell Prince Andrew emails appear to show contact with paedo Epstein lasted longer than he said

Emails appearing to amusement interaction betwixt Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein person emerged wherever the royal is believed to person told the paedophile to 'keep successful adjacent interaction and we'll play immoderate much soon'

New bombshell emails appearing to amusement interaction betwixt Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein person emerged, which look to amusement promises to the paedophile financier to enactment successful interaction and "play immoderate much soon."

Court documents person showed evident email interaction betwixt the royal and the convicted enactment offender arsenic precocious arsenic February 2011. The royal is believed to person told Epstein to "keep successful adjacent touch" successful an email, with the assertion coming amid years of scrutiny being placed connected Epstein's narration with the Duke of York.

Prince Andrew antecedently told the BBC that helium broke disconnected his relationship with the enactment offender successful December 2010. The caller assertion was made by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) successful tribunal documents for a ineligible conflict against erstwhile Barclays main enforcement Jes Staley.

Mr Staley is appealing against a uncovering by the watchdog that helium gave a misleading relationship of the quality of his narration with Epstein, and denies doing so. In an amended connection of the case, the FCA said that features of the narration betwixt Epstein and Mr Staley showed they were "close", and that emails sent betwixt the brace were "inconsistent with a concern relationship".

These included Epstein making "numerous introductions and recommendations for Mr Staley", including with the royal household member, and calling each different "family" successful immoderate emails. The FCA said: "On 15 June 2010, Mr Epstein emailed a subordinate of the British Royal Family noting: ‘if you tin find clip to amusement jes astir with vera that would beryllium fun, helium told maine helium ran into you tonight.’

"The royal household subordinate replied asking who Vera was and noting that helium had seen Jes successful Harry's Bar and would interaction him successful the morning. Mr Epstein replied connected 15 June 2010 noting that Vera was ‘my aboriginal ex wife, one cognize jes and she would emotion to spot home’.

"The royal household subordinate replied connected the aforesaid day that helium was having ‘dinner with Jes time evening’." It continued: "On 27 February 2011, Mr Epstein emailed a subordinate of the British royal household ‘jes staley volition beryllium successful London connected adjacent tue afternoon, if you person time’.

"The recipient replied the pursuing time ‘Jes is coming connected 1st March oregon adjacent week?’ and past pursuing treatment of property articles ‘keep successful adjacent interaction and we’ll play immoderate much soon!!!!’." The duke stepped down from authoritative duties successful 2019 pursuing the furore implicit his relationship with Epstein, who died the aforesaid twelvemonth having been jailed for kid enactment offences successful 2008.

In an interrogation with BBC's Newsnight, Andrew told Emily Maitlis: "I ceased interaction with him (Epstein) aft I was alert that helium was nether probe and that was aboriginal successful 2006 and I wasn't successful interaction with him again until 2010." He aboriginal said that successful December 2010: "I had to amusement enactment and I had to spell and spot him and I had to archer him, ‘That’s it’."

The grade of their relationship was besides laid bare successful hundreds of pages of unsealed tribunal documents for proceedings successful the US, with Andrew paying millions to settee a civilian intersexual battle lawsuit with Virginia Giuffre, a unfortunate of Epstein whom helium claimed ne'er to person met. In 2023, Mr Staley was fined £1.8 cardinal and banned from holding elder roles successful the fiscal assemblage by the FCA aft it recovered helium misled the watchdog implicit the quality of his narration with Epstein.

The authorization recovered that Mr Staley recklessly approved a missive sent by Barclays to the regulator which claimed the bank's erstwhile brag did not person a adjacent narration with Epstein. Mr Staley acted arsenic a backstage banker to the disgraced financier during his clip astatine JP Morgan, wherever helium worked for much than 30 years, but claimed that his past interaction with him was “well before” helium joined Barclays successful December 2015.

But the FCA recovered that successful emails betwixt the two, Mr Staley described Epstein arsenic 1 of his "deepest" and "most cherished" friends. Mr Staley is appealing against the FCA's findings and denies that the missive contained misleading statements, with a proceeding successful the lawsuit held successful London connected Thursday.

The Mirror has contacted Prince Andrew for remark but received nary response.