Prince Andrew payments controversy – a timeline of events

  • 2005 Andrew is reported to have met Tarek Kaituni, a Libyan national with a conviction for gun smuggling, who is said to have facilitated meetings between Andrew and former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

  • 2009 Beatrice is reported to have received a £20k diamond necklace from Kaituni for her 21st birthday, months before the duke allegedly lobbied a British company on his behalf.

  • 2014 After being stripped of his role as trade envoy, Andrew launches Pitch@Palace, a Dragons’ Den-style project, in which budding entrepreneurs would be given the opportunity to woo successful business people with rapid-fire pitches.

  • 12 October 2018 Eugenie marries brand ambassador Jack Brooksbank. Kaituni is said to have attended the wedding.

  • May to June 2019 It is reported that Kaituni introduces Selman Turk to Andrew at a birthday celebration at Windsor Castle.

  • July 2019 The Duchess of York is unveiled as an ambassador for Pegasus, for which she later receives payment via one of Turk’s companies, amounting to £225,000.

  • October 2019 It is reported that two payments were made by Turk to Eugenie amounting to approximately £25,000. She denies knowing Turk or Isbilen.

  • 6 November 2019 The annual Pitch@Palace event is held at St James’s Palace. Turk wins the people’s choice award, voted for by the audience, for his pitch for his company Heyman AI, a digital bank aimed at millennials.

  • 14 November 2019 Andrew’s then-aide Amanda Thirsk has a conversation with Isbilen’s bank, in which Thirsk says a payment of £750k to be paid to Andrew relates to a wedding gift for Beatrice. The transcript is later published in the Daily Mail.

  • 15 November 2019 A transfer of £750k is made from Isbilen’s account to Andrew’s personal Coutts account. She later says Turk told her it was in return for assistance with a passport application.

  • 5 December 2019 Andrew allegedly visits Turk at his apartment in South Kensington, it is reported.

  • February 2020 Turk and Kaituni are pictured at what is believed to be Frogmore House, a royal residence in Windsor Home Park.

  • July 2020 Beatrice marries property developer Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi.

  • March 2021 Lawyers acting for Isbilen approach Andrew over the £750k payment. He does not comment but repays the money in full.