Standard Chartered has reportedly become the latest

corporate partner to withdraw from Prince Andrew’s business

mentoring initiative as pressure continues to build on both
sides of the Atlantic.
The reported move by the banking multinational, which is not
expected to review its partnership when it ends in February,
comes after KPMG ended its £100,000-a-year sponsorship
and a page listing corporate sponsors was removed from the
Pitch@Palace website.
Another company, Aon, also said it had asked for its logo to be
removed from the Pitch@Palace site, where the insurance
broker had been described as a “global partner”.
The latest developments coincided with calls in the US by a
woman, who claims Jeffrey Epstein committed a “vicious,
prolonged sexual assault” against her when she was 15, for
Prince Andrew to come forward with information about the
convicted sex offender.
Amid other fallout from the prince’s interview with the BBC at
the weekend, the University of Huddersfield has said it will
consult its student body over the prince’s position as
chancellor after a panel voted unanimously to lobby for the
duke’s resignation from the post.
The Huddersfield Students’ Union panel approved a motion
calling for Prince Andrew’s removal from his ceremonial post
at the university that read: “We as students at the University
of Huddersfield and members of Huddersfield Students’
Union should not be represented by a man with ties to
organised child sexual exploitation and assault.
“We need to put survivors of sexual assault above royal
connections and show students, alumni and prospective
students that this institution cares about their wellbeing,
irrespective of the status of the alleged perpetrator,” it
continued.