Queen Elizabeth II once had a shocking reaction to her second son, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, “getting punched by footman”. A new report states the late Queen reacted in a surprising manner to the alleged altercation.
The Times claimed that when Andrew was a young man, his behaviour was so bad that it led to an angry outburst from a royal footman. The late Queen is said to have “refused his subsequent offer to resign”.
The outlet writes: “…as a young man his [Andrew’s] behaviour was so atrocious that a footman punched him in the face. Queen Elizabeth refused his subsequent offer to resign on the grounds that her son had obviously deserved it.”
This isn’t the first time the story of the frontman allegedly punching Andrew has come to light. Royal expert, Ingrid Seward, also detailed the incident in her book ‘My Husband and I’.
Seward said that on “one occasion when [Andrew’s] taunting so annoyed a young footman that he took a swipe at Andrew that deposited him on the floor and left him with a black eye”.
Worried about his job, the footman went to the Queen herself, but once there she noted that “her son had obviously deserved it and the footman was on no account to be punished for Andrew’s bad behaviour”.
Insiders, however, have long disputed that Andrew was the Queen’s favourite son. Ailsa Anderson, who was the late Queen’s Press Secretary between 2001 and 2013 told the BBC, “The media do say that he was the favourite son, but in my 12 years working for the late Queen I never saw her display any favouritism amongst any of her children, so I can’t really say that’s true.”
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He held the role of the UK’s trade envoy from 2001 to 2011, giving him privileged access to senior Government and business contacts around the world.
The former prince stripped of his titles and honours in October 2025 after King Charles initiated a formal process to do so. Currently, Andrew, the King’s brother, remains eighth in line to the throne despite being stripped of his titles amid pressure over his ties to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
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