Prince Andrew is flown by RAF to oil shindig On Monday, he was flown to the event at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre. Andrew has been a friend of Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the brother of Abu Dhabi's ruler, since they attended Gordonstoun. When Andrew stepped down as a trade envoy, it was expected that the Duke of Cambridge would carry out more foreign visits. Prince William is, however, on what has been described as a "gap year" after he announced in September that he was quitting full-time military duties. Prince Andrew gave up his 10-year role as a trade envoy after his reputation was battered by disclosures about his links to controversial businessmen. He was criticised for his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender with whom he stayed in New York after Epstein had served a jail sentence for his offences. His abilities as an envoy were also questioned after the WikiLeaks website published an American diplomatic cable written by an ambassador who described Andrew as "cocky" and "rude." There were also disclosures about his friendships with the Gaddafi family and Tarek Kaituni, a convicted Libyan arms smuggler, and the sale of his former marital home to the son-in-law of the president of Kazakhstan for £3 million more than the asking price. "The Duke was invited to attend the event by the organisers," says a courtier. The timing worked out because he was passing through Abu Dhabi. This was a working visit, but not a Royal Visits Committee trip. Raising a glass Guinness has proved good for Dominik Ceglowski, a 29-year-old Cambridge graduate and civil servant. Erskine Guinness's daughter Molly, a 28-year-old journalist, who contributes to The Spectator, has consented to be his wife. The pair will marry at her family home, Fosbury Manor, in Wiltshire. "We can't wait for the wedding," her father tells me. He is a wonderful chap and they share a very good sense of humour, so I'm sure they'll be together forever. The engagement brings joy to the family, which has suffered more than its share of sorrow over the years. At the 18th birthday party of one of Molly's brothers in 2004, Robert Hesketh was found dead by his wife, Catherine, the daughter of Lord Moyne, following a drug overdose. Catherine's half-sister, Olivia Channon, died from a drug overdose in Oxford in 1986.