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Prince Andrew apparently had a couple of staffer banished from the palace over their look, a brand new ebook in regards to the royal household claims.
“It’s true that some royals can show acts of unwell mood,” royal writer Tom Quinn writes in his forthcoming ebook, Sure Ma’am: The Secret Lifetime of Royal Servants, based on an excerpt printed by U.Okay.’s The Instances on Thursday, February 6. “One former servant recalled how Prince Andrew insisted on a member of workers being transferred as a result of he disliked a mole on the person’s face.”
Andrew, 64, apparently additionally “moved a person to different duties for carrying a nylon tie,” the ebook states.
Information of Andrews alleged actions with staffers comes following his widespread controversies over latest years, together with a extremely publicized connection to late billionaire intercourse trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
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In 2019, Andrew was accused of sexual assault by a lady named Virginia Guiffre, who claimed that he raped her at 17 years outdated. Andrew has continued to vehemently deny the accusations. (Andrew settled his lawsuit with Guiffre in February 2022, for an undisclosed sum.)
Regardless of his denial, Andrew was stripped of his royal title and took a step again from the household in 2020 after the Epstein connection and Guiffre lawsuit went public. (Late final month, a number of U.Okay. shops printed an alleged electronic mail between Andrew and Epstein from 2011.)
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The Instances excerpt from Thursday didn’t solely give attention to Andrew when it got here to royal members of the family who’ve been testy with their workers. Prince Edward additionally had an obvious concern with those that labored for him, Quinn’s ebook reads.
“In accordance with a now retired member of the Buckingham Palace workers, Prince Edward as soon as tore a strip off his driver for trying too typically in his rear-view mirror,” the excerpt claims. (“To strip off” is an off-the-cuff British idiom which means to criticize somebody forcefully.)
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Elsewhere within the ebook excerpt, Quinn claimed that Princess Kate Middleton treats husband Prince William as “her fourth youngster.” (The couple shares Prince George, 11, Princess Charlotte, 9, and Prince Louis, 6.)
“I don’t know the place William can be with out Kate — she hasn’t had every part carried out for her all through her life, so she calms him down when he will get a bit fractious,” the ebook claims through an unnamed supply. “She stated he typically needs to be handled as her fourth youngster.”
Sure Ma’am: The Secret Lifetime of Royal Servants is ready to be printed on Tuesday, February 18.
