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Prince Andrew, Royal Money Scandals & our right to know! | EP. 60 | Scandal Mongers Podcast
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According to the court reports last week, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, pocketed more than £1 million from an allegedly corrupt financier acting on behalf of a Turkish millionaire. And nobody can say why. It’s one of many obscure stories of cash flowing into royal coffers that our Andrew - Lownie - has been trying to investigate for years.
In this special episode Andrew shares some of his theories about what has been happening here - and asks questions about Prince Andrew’s time as a ’trade envoy’. Just who was he representing on these expensive foreign trips? His country or his own family? We also discuss the wider issues of royal finance and the public’s right to know about it.
Andrew has spent many frustrating months battling for access to royal and other official documents about Prince Andrew and others, but Britain’s Freedom of Information system does not appear to be very helpful.
Later in the episode we talk to the guru of freedom of information (in Britain and elsewhere) about all this - ex BBC journalist Martin Rosenbaum.
Martin Rosenbaum has also written a guide book to your rights to information
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Freedom-Info...
You can buy Andrew and Phil’s books, and work from the other authors we feature here, in our own Scandal Mongers bookshop - along with thousands more.
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/scandalmongers
Looking for the perfect gift for a special scandalous someone - or someone you’d like to get scandalous with? We’re here to help.
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The Scandal Mongers Podcast is also available to watch on YouTube...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJgy7_rHwpE&t=23s
Andrew Lownie
https://twitter.com/andrewlownie
Phil Craig
https://twitter.com/philmcraig
Scandal Mongers
https://twitter.com/MongersPodcast
You can get in touch with the show hosts via...
team@podcastworld.org (place 'Scandal Mongers' in the heading please).
This show is part of the PodcastWorld.org network. For your own show please get in contact via the email address above.
Production by
Theo X
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
93 episoder
Manage episode 405678566 series 3515377
According to the court reports last week, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, pocketed more than £1 million from an allegedly corrupt financier acting on behalf of a Turkish millionaire. And nobody can say why. It’s one of many obscure stories of cash flowing into royal coffers that our Andrew - Lownie - has been trying to investigate for years.
In this special episode Andrew shares some of his theories about what has been happening here - and asks questions about Prince Andrew’s time as a ’trade envoy’. Just who was he representing on these expensive foreign trips? His country or his own family? We also discuss the wider issues of royal finance and the public’s right to know about it.
Andrew has spent many frustrating months battling for access to royal and other official documents about Prince Andrew and others, but Britain’s Freedom of Information system does not appear to be very helpful.
Later in the episode we talk to the guru of freedom of information (in Britain and elsewhere) about all this - ex BBC journalist Martin Rosenbaum.
Martin Rosenbaum has also written a guide book to your rights to information
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Freedom-Info...
You can buy Andrew and Phil’s books, and work from the other authors we feature here, in our own Scandal Mongers bookshop - along with thousands more.
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/scandalmongers
Looking for the perfect gift for a special scandalous someone - or someone you’d like to get scandalous with? We’re here to help.
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ScandalMongers
*** If you enjoy our work please consider clicking the YouTube subscribe button, even if you listen to us on an audio app. It will help our brand to grow and our content to reach new ears.
The Scandal Mongers Podcast is also available to watch on YouTube...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJgy7_rHwpE&t=23s
Andrew Lownie
https://twitter.com/andrewlownie
Phil Craig
https://twitter.com/philmcraig
Scandal Mongers
https://twitter.com/MongersPodcast
You can get in touch with the show hosts via...
team@podcastworld.org (place 'Scandal Mongers' in the heading please).
This show is part of the PodcastWorld.org network. For your own show please get in contact via the email address above.
Production by
Theo X
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
93 episoder
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