Documents reveal Queen Elizabeth II advocated for her son, Prince Andrew, to be appointed a government trade envoy in 2000. He held the unpaid role of Special Representative for International Trade and Investment from 2001 to 2011.

Queen Elizabeth pressed ⁠for her son Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor ⁠to be made a government trade envoy back in 2000, according to documents released on Thursday. Mountbatten-Windsor, brother of King Charles, served as the UK’s Special Representative for International Trade and Investment between 2001 and 2011 in an unpaid role that allowed him to travel the world meeting senior business and government figures. David Wright, the chief executive of British Trade International, said that before the.....