{"id":1965772,"date":"2025-08-17T21:13:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T21:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1965772"},"modified":"2025-08-17T21:13:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T21:13:20","slug":"prince-andrew-was-horrible-to-staff-bombshell-revelations-in-new-documentary-what-did-the-royal-biographer-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/prince-andrew-was-horrible-to-staff-bombshell-revelations-in-new-documentary-what-did-the-royal-biographer-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Prince Andrew was horrible to staff\u2019: Bombshell revelations in new documentary\u2014what did the royal biographer claim?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"MwN2O\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"T22zO\">\n<div class=\"LVN95\"><\/div>\n<section class=\"D3Wk1  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  \" style=\"top:0px\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Duke of York Prince Andrew mistreated his staff members and will summon his protection officer or maids to pick up his golf balls or tissues to pick that up, the royal biographer Andrew Lonie claimed in one of the episodes in Channel 5&#8217;s documentary, Andrew and Fergie: The Duke and Duchess of Excess.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>The new documentary goes into the lives of Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, exploring their relationship, lavish lifestyle, business ventures, Ferguson\u2019s financial struggles, and their controversial links to Jeffrey Epstein, as per Express UK reported.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/> During the episode, royal biographer Lonie said, &#8220;Andrew was particularly horrible to staff; he doesn&#8217;t seem to see them as normal people. He treats them as basically subordinates to be bossed around. <!-- -->I think he\u2019s very narcissistic and everything is about him.&#8221; <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>Lonie further added, &#8220;He\u2019ll summon his protection officer to pick up his golf balls after he&#8217;s teed them down the fairway, he will summon maids from four floors down to open the curtains. He will drop tissues he&#8217;s used on the floor and expect people to pick that up.&#8221; <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>The documentary continued: &#8220;Andrew has not commented on the new claims about his behaviour towards staff.&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/> These bombshells were exposed in a new book about the disgraced royal and his family, &#8220;The Rise and Fall Of The House of York&#8221;, by Andrew Lownie. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>Earlier this year, it was also reported that the Duke had previously asked for a member of staff to be moved because he &#8220;disliked a mole on the man&#8217;s face.&#8221; This claim was made by royal author Tom Quinn, who wrote about the royal&#8217;s temper in &#8220;The Times&#8221;. He penned: &#8220;It\u2019s true that some royals can display acts of ill temper. <!-- -->One former servant recalled how Prince Andrew insisted on a member of staff being transferred because he disliked a mole on the man\u2019s face.<!-- -->&#8221; <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>Andrew Lownie\u2019s scathing book about Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson was released last week. Quinn added: &#8220;Speaking of Andrew, that another former servant asked for a man to be &#8216;moved to other duties for wearing a nylon tie.'&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"22\"\/> Ahead of Andrew Lonie&#8217;s book release, sources close to the Duke of York reacted to the allegations which surfaced and claimed: &#8220;It would be totally inaccurate to say they are devastated or heartbroken by the book, or any of this c***.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"25\"\/> There are absolutely no new revelations\u2014it\u2019s just a rehash of things already said brought together in one place. The family used to wonder when this would ever end; now they know it never will. It\u2019s just, the tide comes in and the tide goes out,&#8221; the insider added to the &#8220;Daily Beast&#8221;. 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