In the not-too-distant past, when Prince Andrew was still a prince, there was one person he could rely on: his mother.
In troubled times, the late Queen would allow him to visit her at Windsor Castle, providing if not a heart-to-heart talk with her errant second son, then at least some company.
In her latter years, as Andrew’s scandals gained notoriety, advisers began to refer wearily to his “tea-with-the-Queen tactic”.
“She was just sorry for him,” one such senior adviser is quoted as saying in a new biography by Robert Hardman. “The others [her children] had spouses, duties, respect. He did not.”
In the three years since Elizabeth II’s death, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been stripped of his titles, honours, styles and home, and arrested on claims of misconduct in public office.
Recent images have seen him cut a lonely figure. First out riding by himself in a rainy Windsor, then walking the dogs alone at Sandringham as he waits to move into his new home at Marsh Farm.
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