Former prince seeks to dissolve Dragons’ Den-style startup competition and his innovation company

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has applied to shut down some of his last remaining business interests including the Dragons’ Den-style startup competition Pitch@Palace Global.

A document announcing the application to dissolve the firm was filed with Companies House on Tuesday, signed by its sole director, Arthur Lancaster.

Pitch@Palace held its first event in 2014 and involved entrepreneurs presenting their ideas to potential investors at locations including St James’s Palace.

It suspended operations in 2019 after the interview Mountbatten Windsor gave to BBC Newsnight about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and in which he denied having any sexual contact with Virginia Giuffre.