Fresh court documents reveal further correspondence from the prince's aide to Yang Tengbo.

Dominic Hampshire, a close friend and adviser to the Duke, wrote to Yang Tengbo, an alleged Chinese spy, thanking him for standing by the embattled Duke in the aftermath of the November 2019 interview, which saw him forced to step back from public duties.

Prince Andrew's senior aide Dominic Hampshire is said to have told an alleged Chinese spy with links to the Duke of York that his car crash Newsnight interview had been a disaster