Last month, Andrew was further humiliated after being arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office and released 11 hours later under investigation. His arrest came after the Epstein files showed that he may have shared confidential information with the late US financier during his time as the UK’s trade envoy.
Andrew has always denied any wrongdoing.
In his latest column for the Daily Mail, the former Prime Minister spoke about how he went to Buckingham Palace to have tea with Andrew, when the latter was a trade envoy and he was still Mayor of London.
They spoke about ideas and plans on how to make the capital “even more attractive to the world’s billionaire investors”.
Ms Johnson said: “I could tell that our answers hadn’t really satisfied him, and that he had visions of billionaires being waved through Heathrow and through a series of green and deferential traffic lights to look hungrily at building sites being cleared of pesky heritage buildings.
“As we left, I am told I made some salty and unworthy remarks. But in a way I felt a bit sorry for him. He was the second son in a system that insisted on male primogeniture. The result was that he didn’t have a role. But now, he does.”
Elsewhere, Mr Johnson revealed that he had to ban Andrew from a major royal event for fear of embarrassing the late Queen Elizabeth after his disastrous 2019 BBC Newsnight interview.
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The interview ended up becoming Andrew’s starting point regarding his fall from grace and he shortly after announced that he would be stepping down as a senior working member of the Royal Family.
Mr Johnson said: “The second long – and indeed the last conversation I had with Andrew – took place when I was PM, and I was for some reason deputed to tell him that he could not attend some big public ceremony, for fear of embarrassing his mother and the whole institution of the monarchy.
“This time I had to go to Windsor to break the bad news. He was not thrilled. I tried to cheer him up.
“Look, I said, he needed to be a bit humble. He had to understand how people felt about things, ever since that disastrous interview on Newsnight.”
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