The disgraced Duke is said to have flown to the Gulf state this week on a private jet owned by a Swiss billionaire associate who has not been named.

He was received as ‘guest of honour’ by long-standing friends in Bahrain’s autocratic royal family who paid for his stay at a five-star hotel where the Royal Suite costs £8,600 a night, according to The Sun.

It would be the first time Andrew has left the UK since a golfing trip to Spain in 2019 weeks after the death of his paedophile billionaire friend Jeffrey Epstein.