Multiple outlets report that an archive of emails relating to Prince Andrew’s period as a government trade envoy was provided to Buckingham Palace in 2020. The Independent says that in May 2020, an archive of about 30,000 emails was handed to the most senior officer in the Royal Household, the lord chamberlain. The Guardian, citing a BBC report, similarly states that more than 30,000 emails were delivered to the lord chamberlain in 2020. The reports add that the emails include material described as relating to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s trade envoy activities, with some appearing to involve the sharing of confidential information. The BBC’s account, as relayed by the other publications, frames the handover as an internal transfer of a large email archive to senior palace officials, rather than as a public disclosure at the time. The reports do not provide additional details in the excerpts supplied about what prompted the handover or what specific actions, if any, followed from palace receipt of the archive.