A company set up by the Duke of York with a former royal banker who quit after sexual harassment allegations is being wound up.
Prince Andrew had set up the firm, which was understood to be planned as a vehicle for his family investments, with Harry Keogh in 2020.
Keogh, Andrew’s private banker for 20 years and a “friend and adviser to the duke”, left the Queen’s bank Coutts in March 2018 after being accused of touching a female colleague inappropriately and boasting about his sexual exploits.
Andrew strenuously denies the claims, and his lawyers are trying to have the case stopped on the grounds of a previous settlement between Giuffre and Epstein. The judge in the case is expected to rule on this shortly.