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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is to mark another stage He withdrew from public life His last company failed.
shameful royal family Startup Pitch@Palace will be canceled from company building Tuesday, February 3, less than ten years after it was established in 2017 by the former Duke of York.
In October, Buckingham Palace announced that Andrew would be stripped of his royal titles amid ongoing controversy over his friendship with the late pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
His Pitch@Palace business was inspired by dragon’s lairhaving survived the initial impact in 2019, the UK branch closed in 2021 and is currently being disbanded.
The program initially won Andrew praise for helping young people get into business, as it encouraged entrepreneurs to pitch their ideas to potential investors and compete for funding.
In a document filed with the Registrar of Companies signed by the company’s sole director, Arthur Lancaster, the company made an application for “delisting and dissolution”.
Companies House lists Prince Andrew, of the Royal Inn in Windsor, as having “significant influence or control” over the business.
Andrew resigned from his role at Pitch@Palace in 2019 after facing backlash following an interview with the company. British Broadcasting Corporationof news night During the show, he was asked about his relationship with Epstein. The former duke has strongly denied any wrongdoing.
Latest accounts show the company had £10,965 in cash at the end of March, down from £220,990 at the same time last year.
Last year, Pitch@Palace China was embroiled in controversy when its founder and partner was accused of being a spy. Yang Tengbo, who is said to have become a close friend of Andrew, has been banned from entering the UK by the Home Office.
Andrew resigned from royal duties in 2019 after a devastating disaster. news night The interviews, the publication of Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir and the release of documents from Epstein’s estate by the U.S. government have drawn increased scrutiny of his relationship with the financier.
The king took action over his brother’s “serious error of judgment” and stripped him of his birthright as a prince and dukedom.
He was preparing to move from the royal villa in Windsor Great Park to the king’s private Sandringham estate, where he had paid only peppercorn rent for more than two decades.
The former prince has been dogged for years by allegations that he sexually abused Jove after she was trafficked by Epstein, claims that Andrew has repeatedly denied.
It was also revealed before Christmas that he sent Epstein an email in 2011 saying “we are in this together”, three months after he claimed he had severed all contact with the convicted pedophile.
He paid millions of dollars to Giuffre, whom he said he had never met, to settle civil sexual assault claims in 2022.