His involvement in the Jeffrey Epstein abuse scandal brought down King Charles' younger brother Andrew.
Even as a child, he shocked his behavior, as has now been revealed.
London – Prince Andrew (63) came after King Charles III.
(74) and Princess Anne (72) as the third child of Queen Elizabeth (96, † 2022) and Prince Philip (99, † 2021) to the world.
Andrew was considered a favorite of the Queen, but she stuck to the traditional approach of having most of her offspring raised by nannies.
However, Prince Andrew saw his mother far more often than his older siblings.
'He was so terrible': Nanny opens up about young Prince Andrew
In his book Gilded Youth:
An Intimate History of Growing Up In The Royal Family” author Tom Quinn sheds light on how the British royal family has held on from generation to generation to long-outdated traditions that only seem to have been broken by the Queen's granddaughters and grandsons.
This is how today's King Charles III.
only briefly brought to his parents in the morning and evening, hugs and kisses were considered "a bit embarrassing" according to Quinn.
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As a child, Prince Andrew had a miserable reputation among staff - but his parents (Prince Philip on the right) adored him nonetheless.
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Queen Elizabeth II wanted to change her behavior with Prince Andrew.
Although she wasn't interested in changing or feeding him either, she let his nanny take Andrew to her study and play on the floor there, according to Tom Quinn in his book, which The Sun has already
obtained
.
"But she never brought herself to sit on the floor with him."
According to Quinn, Prince Andrew felt early on that he felt superior to his siblings, "partly that was undoubtedly just innate, but maybe it was the extra attention which he received from his mother.”
It's very difficult to be fair to him because he was so terrible.
He treated the staff like they were dirt
A former maid in Tom Quinn's Gilded Youth, according to The Sun
Outbreaks of violence and animal cruelty: Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip ignored Andrew's behavior
In Gilded Youth, a former maid who worked at Buckingham Palace when Prince Andrew was a boy breaks her silence.
"Imagine a little boy walking up to a middle-aged man who has worked for the Queen for decades and saying, 'Bring me that horse,' and referring to a toy across the room, and he poor man had to fetch it,” the employee recalls.
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The young Prince Andrew apparently also tended to break out in violence. "He went into screaming fits when he didn't get his way," the maid recalls. "He tormented the corgis mercilessly, smashed things up when he couldn't get his way, and often tried to hit his nanny."
And although Queen Elizabeth II loved her corgis so much, she let Andrew get away with this behavior, as in " Gilded Youth” is claimed.
"Everyone said Andrew got away with almost any kind of bad behavior because both his mother and father adored him."
Headwind for Prince Andrew: Employees threw him on the dung heap
Another episode that is described in Tom Quinn's book makes it clear that Prince Philip also liked to turn a blind eye to his second son.
The odd thing was that Philip adored him and condoned behavior that would have made him roar if it had been Charles or even Anne.
I remember once Andrew threw a valuable toy out the window and Philip just laughed.
Former maid in Tom Quinn's Gilded Youth, according to The Sun
Once Prince Andrew got the tit-for-tat for his behavior.
At the age of five, a bored Andrew would sneak into the stables at Windsor Castle and start teasing the stable boys, according to Tom Quinn in Gilded Youth.
"He even went so far as to hit the horses' legs with a stick." After the staff repeatedly told him to stop, "they threw him in a dung heap and shoveled horse manure on him."
The Queen only responded to the incident with a "serves you right", Prince Andrew was angry that the stable staff was not punished.
At the latest since the Queen's death, a different wind is blowing for Andrew anyway.
The disgraced prince, who has not been an official royal representative since 2020, is also said to be present at the coronation of King Charles III.
play no role, as for his nephew Prince Harry (38) and his wife Meghan Markle (41) there is a balcony ban for Prince Andrew.
Sources used:
thesun.co.uk
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