Prince Andrew’s weird TV interview about his ties to convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein gobsmacked many Britons — however not famend royal watcher Nigel Cawthorne.
Andrew vehemently denied to the BBC that he had ever intercourse with any of Epstein’s underage “slaves,” but appeared unsympathetic towards the younger ladies.
The prince’s efficiency fell in line for Cawthorne, who has written a brand new e-book in regards to the youngest little one of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip.
“Prince Andrew: The Finish of the Monarchy and Epstein,” popping out Could 28, paints Andrew as a spoiled, indulged boy who grew to grow to be an entitled, obnoxious man.
In an adaptation of the e-book within the Each day Mail, Cawthorne reveals Andrew had “seven nurseries in 4 palaces, countless luxurious treats and way more of his mom’s consideration” than his older brother, Charles, and sister Anne — and will even annoy his father together with his high-handed method.
One time, whereas the royal household was watching a preferred British cleaning soap opera, Andrew shouted: “Oh God, take a look at all these widespread folks” — to which Phillip shot again: “If it wasn’t for folks like that, you wouldn’t be sitting right here.”
When he was 8, Andrew was shipped off the Heatherdown boarding faculty, the place he was thought-about “a little bit of a bully” to his male classmates and the workers.
His subsequent was Gordonstoun, Philip’s and Charles’ alma mater, the place classmates described him as “boastful” and “big-headed” and keen on raunchy jokes.
The prince might have been terrible to his male classmates — however he beloved the women and created what the feminine college students referred to as “Andy’s Harem.”
An aide informed Cawthorne: “I’ve seen him deal with his workers in a stunning, appalling method. He’s been extremely impolite to his private safety officers, throwing issues on the bottom and demanding they ‘f***ing decide them up’. No social graces in any respect. Positive, if you happen to’re a girl with blonde hair and massive boobs, I guess he’s totally charming.”
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The prince, certainly, had many “lady conquests”: mannequin Koo Stark, topless mannequin Vicki Hodge and numerous others, who dated him for causes aside from intercourse. Hodge informed the Information of the World that Andrew “completed” far too shortly– and later tried to distract himself from being an unsatisfying lover by counting out loud to make their lovemaking last more.
Andrew lastly settled down with Sarah Ferguson, who Brits nicknamed Fergie. Although the wedding didn’t final the couple’s glamorous residing preparations did — regardless of neither having the seen earnings to make their dwelling on the Royal Lodge in Windsor, a 30-room Georgian property set in 98 acres, with eight cottages for workers.
“How did he pay for it?” Cawthorne writes. “Probably he relied on the Financial institution of Mum, as his naval pension plus the sum the Queen paid him yearly wouldn’t even have lined the curiosity.”
Over time, Andrew tried to construct a profession formally representing Britain’s enterprise pursuits overseas as a commerce ambassador. Sadly, his style ran to the rich and insidious. Amongst these he courted was Saif al-Islam, son of the Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi, now wished by the Worldwide Legal Courtroom for crimes towards humanity, and dodgy Kazakhstani oligarchs.
Complaints to the International workplace poured in all through the years.
“Andrew’s relations all over the world are dicey,” one official informed Cawthorne: “He’s displaying unhealthy judgment about folks. He’s impolite, lashes out to put down the legislation and it’s so troublesome to promote him.”
However Andrew’s largest downfall was his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, who lured the royal with personal planes and women — inviting him to a “pimps and hookers” social gathering in New York, a raunchy Chinese language New 12 months social gathering that featured topless waitresses and a luxurious yacht journey in Thailand, the place the prince “toured the red-light district of Patong and danced in a go-go bar — motto ‘good meals, chilly drinks, scorching women’ — with half-naked younger ladies,” Cawthorne writes.
At this time, Andrew nonetheless lives with Fergie within the Royal Lodge and is doing his finest to keep away from being interviewed by the FBI about Epstein, Cawthorne writes.