{"id":8066,"date":"2026-02-24T17:05:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/?p=8066"},"modified":"2026-02-24T17:05:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:05:04","slug":"tuesday-24th-february-2026-day-2171","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/2026\/02\/24\/tuesday-24th-february-2026-day-2171\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 24th February, 2026 [Day 2171]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I woke up yesterday morning with a fairly mild day in prospect but quite a busy week ahead of me. No one has yet used the term ‘Andrewgate’ but this story will rumble on for weeks and perhaps even months now that the police are investigating Andrew’s affairs in his role as a Trade Commissioner. The police are already investigating those police officers who served as Andrews’s personal bodyguards and they evidently wish to know the events that they witnessed. In addition, the net is being cast a little wider because  civil servants with something to say are now coming forward. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor charged taxpayers for massages and excessive travel costs while working as the UK’s trade envoy, whistleblowing retired civil servants have claimed. One former civil servant, who worked in the UK’s trade department in the early 2000s, had been so annoyed by Andrew’s request to cover the cost of ‘massage services’ that he’d refused to pay it, but says he was overruled by senior staff. The Department for Business and Trade has not challenged the claim about Andrew’s time as envoy, between 2001 and 2011, but has referred to the ongoing police investigation into the former prince. The revelations are multiplying but some are particularly concerning as it appears that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor might have given young women access to Buckingham Palace without any security clearance. An ex-royal protection officer insists he was ordered to ‘keep quiet’ by the Met Police after making claims that Andrew Mountbatten\u2013Windsor smuggled women into Buckingham Palace ‘multiple times a week’. Paul Page, 54, who helped guard the royal family from 1998 to 2004, says he has now approached Thames Valley Police to assist with their ongoing investigation.He described the former prince, who was arrested by Thames Valley Police on Thursday, as an ‘a*<\/em><\/strong>‘ to staff working under him, adding that protection officers weren\u2019t allowed to ask the names of women being snuck into the palace. It follows bold claims made elsewhere that one woman was given the codename ‘Mrs Windsor’ when she was flown to the UK on Jeffrey Epstein’s \u2018Lolita Express\u2019 to meet the former prince. Mr Page, who has a fraud conviction after running a \u00a33 million scam from a locker room in Buckingham Palace, first began talking about Andrew to the press in 2008. After Mr Page publicly spoke out again last year that the former prince allegedly smuggled unidentified women into his Buckingham Palace apartment, he says he received a letter from Jon Savill, deputy assistant commissioner of the Met Police. The letter reminded him of his duties to protect the ‘confidentiality and respect for the privacy of those who are protected’, as reported in ‘The Times’. The implications of tis are actually enormous as it implies that there are whole swathes of public officials who were aware of Andrews activities but whose attempts to raise the issues with their superiors were thwarted. Not for the first time, the Metropolitan police themselves are coming under the spotlight. In Parliament, there are calls for an official enquiry, possibly led by a senior High Court judge, with the power to compel witnesses to give evidence and the calls for this are getting louder and louder as more murky revelations are being uncovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the morning, I walked down the hill into town and picked up a copy of my newspaper before settling down for a drink of coffee. There I was to read the headlines  that much of the airline data that could be used to throw light upon Andrew Mountbatten-Windsors illegal trafficking of girls may already have been destroyed.  I learnt that RAF records (and Andrew often made use of these) are destroyed after three months whereas aircraft movements (call signs and numbers, arrivals and departures) are generally only held for two years and the manifests of commercial airlines for six to seven years. This means that much pf the incriminating evidence may already have been destroyed (to which my response is ‘Quel surprise!’) We have witnessed a whole series of incidents in which once the rich and powerful are eventually held to account (Orgreave incident, Hillsborough, Tainted blood  enquiry, Windrush scandal, Post Office enquiry to name but a few) the evidence trail is missing, destroyed or unavailable. Meanwhile, news is emerging in the American liberal media that Austin Tucker Martin, the would be assassin of Donald Trump was a MAGA supporter who had been appalled by the Trump inspired cover-up of the Epstein files. At the time of the last election, the MAGA action had convinced themselves of their own propaganda that the major miscreants were all Democrats. As information has leaked out, it is evident that many sectors of the commercial, political and financial elite were drawn into the Epstein net and the majority of these were probably Republican and Trump supporters  and so to the MAGA purists, Donald Trump’s attempts to delay and redact incriminating files is seem as the ultimate betrayal. It will be interesting to see whether this story ‘has legs’ as it were and whether other media outlets will have the opportunity to do a little more digging to verify the provenance of the accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The day yesterday had proved to be quite mild but the weather forecasters are predicting that in a couple  day’s time we could have temperatures that rise as high as 18\u00b0 and so there will be a burst of spring. I must admit that as I walked up the hill this morning, I was on the lookout for an emerging spring flower, preferable something like a red caelia, that I could put in the little vase which I have  put in front of the little display that I have made of Meg’s ashes. I have taken pains not to make this ostentatious or vulgar in any way but the box is which Meg’s ashes were returned to me have been covered in red velvet and then I have a couple of tea light holders to be lit as the occasion demands, a tiny little  vase to contain a single bloom and surmounted by a favourite photograph of Meg. I have tried to make this unostentatious and not particularly funerial as might be the case if I had purchased a specialist urn. Although I try to occupy my thoughts with pleasant memories there are days of which yseterday happens to be one) where I happen to be a little overwhelmed with grief but this is only to be expected – and bad days always eventually pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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