MeMoMu_PSW_067 "THEY ARE ALL BEING NASTY TO ME"

'F***k off out of my office, he said, 'and f***k off out of my life’
Source ~ Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown Book by Valentine Low
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"They are all being nasty to me." 🥺
Inside Buckingham Palace, Andrew made little effort to make himself pleasant to members of the household. One member of staff said: 'He was just dreadful, very happy to pick up the phone and shout at whoever answered it." One senior courtier recalled: 'He was not easy as an adviser to deal with. He was very arrogant indeed. That arrogance could have stemmed from a lack of self-confidence. He is not at all bright.
The fact that he lashed out and was very rude to advisers like me was down to a total lack of self-confidence, and [an aware-ness] that he could always run to his mother and say, "They are all being nasty to me."
On one occasion, that is exactly what he did. Just before an engagement in Richmond Park that involved both the Queen and the Duke of York, it started pouring with rain and aides realised that no one had remembered to bring an umbrella for the Queen. With half an hour to go before her arrival, her press secretary James Roscoe went outside and found a group of army officers who were there to meet Her Majesty.
He went up to the most junior of them, a captain, and said:
“I know this is ridiculous, but do you mind just trying to find an umbrella for the Queen, and ideally someone who can hold it and walk alongside her?'
At that point, former Prince Andrew strode up to them, pointed his finger in Roscoe's face and said, Who the F***k are you to ask these men to find you a fucking umbrella? You go and find your own f***g umbrella.'
He strode off, and a somewhat shell-shocked Roscoe said to the officer, 'Look, can you find me an umbrella?' He did.
About a week later, Roscoe was talking to the Queen about something else and she looked up and said, 'In Richmond, did you ask the Duke of York to fetch you an umbrella?' Andrew, it seems, had reflected that shouting and swearing at his mother's press secretary was not a good look, and decided to get in his version of events first, just in case Roscoe complained about his behaviour. Roscoe told the Queen: 'What do you think, Ma'am? Do you think I asked the Duke of York to fetch an umbrella?'
There the matter was laid to rest.
This was not the only time Andrew was stunningly rude.
On one occasion, a senior courtier was asked by Amanda Thirsk if they could help talk Andrew out of a particular course of action he was trying to pursue. When they tentatively broached the issue with him, his response was immediate - and spectacular.
'F***k off out of my office, he said, 'and f***k off out of my life’
Source ~ Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown Book by Valentine Low
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