‘There is no money.’ Andrew would arrive on a skiing holiday and he’d have no stuff, and she’d have to buy it.”Andrew’s role from 2001 to 2011 as the UK’s Special Representative for international trade and investment offered him multiple opportunities for dubious personal networking to enhance his income.
It allowed him to swan around the world at government expense, playing golf, brokering nefarious deals on sidebar excursions and partying with big-breasted beauty queens.
He insisted on flying private, and travelled with an entourage of servants, including a valet who lugged a preposterous six-foot-long ironing board through the lobby of five-star hotels.
The Daily Telegraph reported that, in 2010, the Duke of York had spent £465,000 on flights and £154,000 on food and hotels on his trade missions.
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