{"id":329943,"date":"2025-08-09T07:09:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T07:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/329943\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T07:09:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T07:09:16","slug":"palace-withheld-meghan-markle-bullying-probe-to-protect-prince-andrew-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/329943\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace withheld Meghan Markle bullying probe to protect Prince Andrew: book"},"content":{"rendered":"

For her 44th birthday Monday, California-based Meghan Markle seems to just want to enjoy family time at the beach<\/a>, release some more of her As Ever ros\u00e9 wine and ignore reports that Netflix has canceled its lucrative production deal with her and Prince Harry.<\/p>\n

Instead, the aspiring influencer and her royal husband are being dragged into the latest tawdry, scandalous mess involving Harry\u2019s dissolute uncle, Prince Andrew, thanks to a new new biography about the disgraced Duke of York. As excerpted in the Daily Mail,<\/a> the book by author Andrew Lownie, \u201cEntitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York,\u201d offers new details about Andrew\u2019s alleged abusive, corrupt and sexually depraved behavior, which Buckingham Palace allegedly hoped to keep under wraps.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are dealing with collateral damage from the book. For one thing, Lownie\u2019s Daily Mail excerpt rehashes the staff bullying allegations made against Meghan during her time as a senior working member of the royal family from 2018 to 2020. The book suggests that Buckingham Palace decided in 2022<\/a> to withhold releasing the results of an internal investigation into the allegations, apparently to spare the late Queen Elizabeth II from public disclosure over Andrew\u2019s alleged bad behavior, which included his own cruelty to staff, as well as orgies in Thailand while representing the U.K. government.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2021, after Meghan Markle was accused of bullying staff, Buckingham Palace braced itself for historic complaints about Prince Andrew\u2019s bullying, profanities and impossible demands,\u201d Lownie wrote in the Daily Mail excerpt. \u201cSome say a report on the bullying accusations against Meghan Markle has never been released because it would also raise questions about the behavior of the queen\u2019s second son.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"LONDON,LONDON, ENGLAND – JUNE 10: Prince Andrew, Duke of York and Prince Harry during a reception at the Guildhall following the National Service of Thanksgiving for Queen Elizabeth II’s 90th birthday at St Paul’s Cathedral on June 10, 2016 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Hannah McKay – WPA Pool\/Getty Images)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Harry and Meghan have reportedly called in their lawyers<\/a> to dispute some of the book\u2019s other claims, according to Newsweek. They include stories about Andrew and Harry getting into a fist fight in 2013 over something Andrew said behind Harry\u2019s back and about Andrew warning Harry about getting involved with Meghan, saying the marriage wouldn\u2019t last a year. \u00a0\u201cHe openly accused Meghan of being an opportunist and thought she was too old for Harry,\u201d a source told Lownie.<\/p>\n

A statement sent to Newsweek<\/a> said that Harry and Andrew \u201cnever had a physical fight\u201d and that Andrew never made \u201cthe comments he is alleged to have made about the Duchess of Sussex to Prince Harry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lownie\u2019s book chronicles other pretty outrageous, boorish behavior by Andrew, both in the company of his pedophile friend, the late American financier Jeffrey Epstein, and on his own. Andrew\u2019s fall from grace occurred in 2019, after he gave a disastrous TV interview about his friendship with Epstein, who died in prison after being accused of sex trafficking under-aged girls. The duke was eventually stripped of his royal and military titles.<\/p>\n

Lownie\u2019s book quotes sources who allege Andrew has had sex with more than 1,000 women, with investigative journalist Ian Halperin telling Lownie that \u201cRandy Andy\u201d slept with \u201cporn stars, actresses, models, athletes, politicians and bartenders at clubs.\u201d<\/p>\n

A friend of Andrew\u2019s also told Lownie that \u201csex is his big thing in life,\u201d while a Reuters correspondent said that more than 40 women were brought to his hotel room in Bangkok in 2006 when he represented his mother at the diamond jubilee celebration for the king of Thailand.\u201dOften, as soon as one left, another would arrive,\u201d the correspondent said.<\/p>\n

Andrew also was into \u201ckinky sexual activity,\u201d said a former model who had sex with him while he was still married to ex-wife Sarah Ferguson. The model told Lownie that Andrew \u201chad no boundaries\u201d and enjoyed \u201can open arrangement with his wife.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for his treatment of staff, Andrew \u201ccould be unbelievably cruel,\u201d according to Lownie. He once mocked a former head of the household for not using the correct title when referring to his grandmother, the Queen Mother. \u201cYou (expletive) imbecile,\u201d Andrew shouted. \u201cGet out.\u201d<\/p>\n

The way Andrew treated staff caused one royal aide to describe him as \u201ca deeply unpleasant man,\u201d Lownie reported. \u00a0Colin Burgess, who served as equerry to the Queen Mother for many years, told Lownie he was treated \u201cwith disdain\u201d by Andrew, in \u201cstark\u201d contrast to the respect for staff shown by King Charles and Prince William.<\/p>\n

The bullying allegations made against Meghan may seem tame by comparison. They were first revealed in March 2021 by veteran royal reporter Valentine Low in the Times UK, a<\/a>head of Meghan and Harry\u2019s bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey. Low\u2019s report was based on an internal email sent by a former aide, Jason Knauf, who described Meghan\u2019s \u201ctotally unacceptable\u201d behavior to staff before and after she married into the royal family in 2018. Knauf\u2019s email said the American former TV actor \u201calways seems to have someone in her sights,\u201d \u201cwas able to bully two PAs out of the household\u201d in the past year\u201d and had undermined \u201cthe confidence of two staff.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meghan and Harry have both vehemently denied the bullying allegations, with a representative for Meghan decrying Low\u2019s original report as part of \u201can orchestrated smear campaign\u201d against her. \u00a0But Low has not backed down from his reporting. In a YouTube interview<\/a> just last week, he pointed out that the oft-litigious Sussexes never sued him for his Times UK story and that the bullying allegations have followed Meghan to the United States, with the Hollywood Reporter and Vanity Fair<\/a> also filing two separate stories in the past year about her alleged poor treatment of staff.<\/p>\n

Buckingham Palace launched its internal investigation into Meghan\u2019s alleged bullying of staff following Low\u2019s report, the BBC reported. But a senior palace source revealed in 2022 that the investigation would remain private, the BBC reported.<\/p>\n

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