If you care to visit the Epstein Library and put Prince Charles – as he then was – into its search engine, you will find 61 entries under the name of the now ruler of the United Kingdom.

This is not particularly noteworthy: hardly anyone of significant profile from the worlds of royalty, celebrity, politics, high finance and global business are not referenced within the 3.5 million documents in the files relating to the life and works of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. (For reference, the New York Times reports that Donald Trump is referenced on 38,000 occasions.)

All the mentions of Charles are, as far as I can see, innocuous, ranging from a message to Epstein from his publicist to say that the film producer Harvey Weinstein was trying to get Charles to see his film The King’s Speech to a bizarre email chain in which a journalist friend of Epstein’s mentions going to an awards do alongside Charles, Borat comedian Sacha Baron Cohen and actress and activist Rose McGowan.

The rest of the mentions of Charles are mainly extracts from newspaper articles referring to him and his activities. But, as more documents come under the public gaze, there will inevitably be the discovery of connections with wider interest and import.

And so it is that we find something of a jaw-dropper this morning. In 2011, receiving an email from an associate (whose name is redacted) discussing Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s........

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