Prince Andrew’s Chinese whispers

PRINCE Charles’s charity, the Prince’s Trust, has announced it won’t accept any new donations from Chinese technology giant Huawei over security concerns.

His brother Prince Andrew is, though, keen to keep the Communist regime on side. I hear that the Duke of York was spotted among the guests at a Chinese New Year party on Wednesday hosted by the country’s ambassador, Liu Xiaoming, who has insisted Huawei is not a security threat to Britain. ‘I never expected to see a royal there, given all the tensions with China,’ a fellow partygoer at the ambassador’s official residence in Hampstead, London, tells me.

A Buckingham Palace spokesman confirms that Andrew was a guest, explaining: ‘His Royal Highness has been a regular visitor to China since his first visit in April 2004. The Duke continues to help further the relationship between the two countries since President Xi’s State Visit to the UK in 2015.’