Prince Andrew has some beary special keepsakes that he likes organized in a specific way. The disgraced prince allegedly has a collection of teddy bears, and he’s very particular of the order they’re placed in.
“The story of Prince Andrew and the teddy bears is very revealing,” Tom Quinn, author of the new book Yes, Ma’am: The Secret Life of Royal Servants, told Fox News Digital. “Various members of staff who’ve worked for him have told me this is very typical of him. He is quite eccentric, and he has a collection of teddy bears, which he insists are placed every day in a certain position…a pyramid shape.”
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Quinn added that if any of the stuffed animals are out of place, Prince Andrew gets irritated. “And he gets very cross if it’s not done properly…He really doesn’t do anything for himself.”
Quinn, who interviewed hundreds of former and current royal aides for his book, added that Andrew is not well liked among the staff because he is “entitled and quite bad-tempered.”
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“He has a member of staff who puts the teddy bears in order,” Quinn said. “There are quite a few—20 or 30–in the position that he likes every day. And I know that in the past…if they’re not placed exactly as he wants, he can be quite short-tempered and angry about it. So when he finds someone who is very good at it, he clings to them, and he gets the same person to do it every day.”
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“A lot of his bad temper, I think, is frustration because, in many ways, he felt he would be a better king than Charles, his brother,” Quinn continued. “[Andrew] is less introspective, he’s less sensitive. He’s more of a…tough guy. And I think he feels frustrated even more now that he’s no longer a working royal. He does tend to take it out on the staff.”
“Again, that’s something that many members of staff and ex-members of staff have said to me,” he concluded. “He’s too fussy. And the teddy bears are a good example of that.”
Buckingham Palace has previously refused to offer a comment about Prince Andrew to Fox News Digital, however, this time, a rep told the outlet that they “don’t comment on such books.”
Andrew’s penchant for bears was also a plot point in Netflix’s 2024 series, Scoop. In the drama, the prince was played by Rufus Sewell and was depicted yelling at a maid for setting them up incorrectly. A former Buckingham Palace maid Charlotte Briggs also told The Sun in 2022 that she was one tasked with assembling the collection every morning.
“As soon as I got the job, I was told about the teddies, and it was drilled into me how he wanted them,” Briggs recalled at the time. “I even had a day’s training. It was so peculiar. After all, he was a grown man who had served in the Falklands. Each had to be carefully positioned. They were old-fashioned teddy bears—the Steiff ones—and nearly all of them had sailor suits on and hats.”