The Prince of Wales argued for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to be banished from royal life seven years ago, “before the rot further set in”, according to a new biography.
The Prince, who is said to have “never much liked his uncle”, hoped his father and grandmother would take immediate action after the then Prince Andrew appeared on Newsnight in 2019 to discuss his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender.
“William’s view was that [Andrew] got himself into the whole mess, so he should be left to his own devices to sort it out away from the family,” a source said, in a new book about the Prince and Princess of Wales.
Russell Myers, the author, writes that Prince William had “questioned what benefit his uncle was to the wider operation” for years, already disliking his approach to staff.
He quotes a palace source as saying: “Long before he was embroiled in the scandal [involving Virginia Giuffre], he had always thought his uncle was a bit of an ignoramus.
“He had seen how Andrew behaved in front of staff, ordering people about, the aggressive or dismissive manner, they had never seen eye to eye.”
The source added: “William didn’t think that either of them [Andrew or Sarah] should be anywhere near the family, publicly or otherwise, but he was overruled by his father.”
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