In my day job, I advise individuals and corporations on how to deal with crisis situations. The most important rule for surviving a public calamity is to ensure that on day one, there is a recognition of damage done, an expression of empathy towards any victims, and a complete admission of all relevant facts. If there is no risk of further damaging details being revealed at a later date, then the worst has come and gone, and every day gets better.

It is a shame that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor didn’t follow this advice back in 2019 when he agreed to be interviewed by the BBC’s Emily Maitlis about, as he put it at the time, “Mr Epstein and all things associated”. Six years later, with every cache of documents released by the US Department of Justice relating to the late paedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, every day just gets worse for the former prince, and more problematic for the Royal Family.

Mountbatten-Windsor has vehemently denied all allegations of wrongdoing, but who knows what more we have still to learn about his association with the disgraced financier and Epstein’s girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, who is now serving a 20-year prison sentence for luring teenage girls to be sexually abused.

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