THE Queen needed to order infantile Prince Andrew to again down in a weird squabble with Charles — over a royal lavatory.
The ‘petulant’ Duke of York, then 39, refused to take away his toiletries from a rest room supposed for his older brother.
He relented solely after an intervention from his mom at Sandringham, a former maid has revealed, with royal workers left astonished on the row.
Former Buckingham Palace maid Janette McGowan lifted the lid on Andrew’s infantile tantrum at Christmas 1999 — when he was 39.
She stated family workers have been alerted to an “ongoing state of affairs” after the Duke of York had bagsied the incorrect toilet.
He then refused to maneuver his toiletries when instructed that it had been reserved for his older brother and future king Charles, then 51.
Janette, who had travelled to the Sandringham property in Norfolk with the Royal Household, instructed The Solar: “We have been instructed to not transfer something and to not contact something in that rest room as a result of there was an ‘ongoing state of affairs’.”
However she instructed the way it was ultimately sorted out by the Queen having phrases with Andrew whereas Charles waited patiently for a decision.
She defined: “When members of the Royal Household journey to Sandringham they're every allotted rooms and a rest room.
“However Prince Andrew took the toilet that was allotted for the Prince of Wales and he wouldn’t budge and refused to take his stuff out of it. It became a weird stand-off.
“Ultimately The Queen herself needed to intervene to defuse the state of affairs. She truly needed to have phrases with Andrew and say to him that he had to make use of the opposite toilet and that was when he lastly backed down.
“He was virtually 40 on the time. It was very odd behaviour for somebody of that age.
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“The Prince of Wales simply needed to wait till the Queen intervened as Prince Andrew had simply left his issues within the toilet and he wished that rest room.
“Charles was very grown-up about it, which is greater than you'll be able to say for Andrew.”
The Duke, who was divorced from Sarah Ferguson and a veteran of the Falklands Warfare, was on the time residing completely at Buckingham Palace.
Janette, 65, was a housemaid there from 1999 to 2000 — and described her boss as “spoilt”.
Bizarrely, Janette stated there was “nothing particular” in regards to the toilet at Sandringham — and says Andrew merely resented the truth that his brother was considered “superior” to him.
She recalled: “There was a protracted hall with 4 bedrooms and 4 separate bogs.
"The rooms have been on the right-hand aspect and the corresponding bogs have been on the left-hand aspect, reverse every room.
“Prince Andrew had arrived first and he put his issues within the toilet that he shouldn’t have finished.
“It wasn’t the one reverse his room, which is what made it so weird.
“There was nothing particular in regards to the toilet. It was only a good outdated sibling row.”
Janette, who went on to work for Princess Michael of Kent and the Earl and Countess of Wessex, stated of the squabble: “I believe it was very petulant. He’s very spoiled as regards to his personal rights.
“He didn’t like the truth that his brother was superior to him as regards to issues being allotted to him. Apparently he all the time needed to have the primary decide of every part.”
Final week it was revealed how Charles and son Prince William suggested the Queen that Andrew’s function within the Royal Household had develop into untenable amid his ongoing intercourse declare scandal.
In a devastating blow to the Duke of York, Buckingham Palace introduced he was to be stripped of his army titles, patronages and use of “His Royal Highness”.
Andrew is at present getting ready to present sworn testimony in opposition to Virgina Giuffre who has accused him of sexually assaulting her when she was 17, which he vehemently denies.
He at present lives together with his former spouse Fergie at Royal Lodge near Windsor Citadel.
However he's now going through calls to be evicted after he give up royal responsibility in 2019 within the wake of his hyperlinks to billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Yesterday The Solar revealed that former Buckingham Palace employee Charlotte Briggs was left in tears by foul-mouthed rants from the “demanding and entitled” Duke.
Like Janette, Charlotte recalled how he had “behaved like a spoiled brat” when issues had not gone his approach.
Charlotte, 47, stated that he would make her run up 4 flights of stairs to shut his curtains, although he was sat proper subsequent to them.
She instructed The Solar: “One night time I’d finished all of it, I walked again into the hall and he got here out screaming, ‘Can’t you f***ing do something proper?’ I’d left a little bit hole the place they met however they have been extraordinarily heavy.
"I used to be pondering, ‘You wish to shut your personal curtains’ however you'll be able to’t say something. You need to take in it.
“It was terrible and he introduced me to tears. I used to be solely 21 and had little life expertise.”
Yesterday she instructed how she had been criticised for talking out by locals in her dwelling city of Halifax — however she had no regrets.
She stated: “I don’t give a toss what Prince Andrew feels… he's a horrible, nasty man.”
She revealed she determined to spoke out after an ITV documentary final week instructed how Andrew threw a hissy match each time his beloved teddy bear assortment was moved.
We instructed how Charlotte needed to painstakingly prepare them so as of dimension, and even acquired a day’s coaching on the way to do it.
She stated: “My husband and I noticed the TV programme throughout the week when his teddy bears have been talked about and he stated it was a great time for me to talk about what occurred to me too.”
Spokespeople for Buckingham Palace, Clarence Home and the Duke of York all declined to remark yesterday.
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