Business leader: 'Prince Andrew helped us do a deal with Google'

A British businessman has defended Prince Andrew in his role as UK trade envoy, amid criticism of the prince's friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, an American financier.

The prince helped Andrew Sunnucks from Audio Network make a business deal with Google when the company won the Queen's Award for Enterprise in 2008.

His support for the Duke of York follows the concession by a Downing Street source that any more revelations about the prince could make his role untenable.