Prince Andrew appeared on Newsnight<\/a> in 2019 to discuss his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender.<\/p>\n\u201cWilliam\u2019s 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,\u201d a source said, in a new book about the Prince and Princess of Wales.<\/p>\n
Russell Myers, the author, writes that Prince William had \u201cquestioned what benefit his uncle was to the wider operation\u201d for years, already disliking his approach to staff.<\/p>\n
He quotes a palace source as saying: \u201cLong before he was embroiled in the scandal [involving Virginia Giuffre], he had always thought his uncle was a bit of an ignoramus.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe had seen how Andrew behaved in front of staff, ordering people about, the aggressive or dismissive manner, they had never seen eye to eye.\u201d<\/p>\n
The source added: \u201cWilliam didn\u2019t think that either of them [Andrew or Sarah] should be anywhere near the family, publicly or otherwise, but he was overruled by his father.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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