M0nica
I doubt the aide was loaned for the specific purpose of accompanying Andrew to St James.
The aide was probably loaned because of other specific business he was an expert in or because Andrew's aides had had enough and all resigned.
The aide was David Stern.
It almost sounds as if Andrew himself was groomed!
Stern, 48, was a fixer to Mountbatten-Windsor from about 2010 and a director of his Pitch@Palace business between 2016 and 2019. He was also close to Epstein, describing him as his mentor.
Stern had proposed a year earlier that he and Epstein set up an investment office in Beijing for “high net worth individuals” and “very discreetly make PA part of it and use his ‘aura and access’”.
Guardian 14 February 2026