{"id":350356,"date":"2025-08-17T00:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T00:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/350356\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T00:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T00:09:10","slug":"prince-andrew-summons-maids-to-pick-up-used-tissues-in-scathing-expose-tv-radio-showbiz-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/350356\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Andrew &#8216;summons maids to pick up used tissues&#8217; in scathing expos\u00e9 | TV &#038; Radio | Showbiz &#038; TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Channel 5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/channel-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Channel 5<\/a> documentary, Andrew and Fergie: The Duke and Duchess of Excess, examined the lives of <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Prince Andrew\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-andrew\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Andrew<\/a> and his ex-wife, <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Sarah Ferguson\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/sarah-ferguson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarah Ferguson<\/a>. In addition to their relationship, the show also explored the Royals&#8217; controversial ties to <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Jeffrey Epstein\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/jeffrey-epstein\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>, his lavish lifestyles, and business ventures alongside Ferguson&#8217;s financial ups and downs. During the episode, the royal biographer Andrew Lonie claimed that the Duke of York <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2034276\/prince-andrew-bombastic-paul-burrell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mistreated his staff members<\/a> and said: &#8220;Andrew was particularly horrible to staff; he doesn&#8217;t seem to see them as normal people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He treats them as basically subordinates to be bossed around. I think he\u2019s very narcissistic and everything is about him.&#8221; The author claimed: &#8220;He\u2019ll summon his protection officer to pick up his golf balls after he&#8217;s teed them down the fairway, he will summon maids from four floors down to open the curtains. He will drop tissues he&#8217;s used on the floor and expect people to pick that up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The documentary continued: &#8220;Andrew has not commented on the new claims about his behaviour towards staff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These bombshells were exposed in a new book about the disgraced royal and his family, The Rise and Fall Of The House of York, by Andrew Lownie.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, it was also reported that the Duke had previously asked for a member of staff to be moved because he &#8220;disliked a mole on the man&#8217;s face&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This claim was made by royal author Tom Quinn, who wrote about the royal&#8217;s temper in the Times. He penned: &#8220;It\u2019s true that some royals can display acts of ill temper. One former servant recalled how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-andrew\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Andrew<\/a> insisted on a member of staff being transferred because he disliked a mole on the man\u2019s face.<\/p>\n<p>The author added: &#8220;Speaking of Andrew, that another former servant asked for a man to be &#8220;moved to other duties for wearing a nylon tie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of Andrew Lonie&#8217;s book release, sources close to the Duke of York <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2093789\/prince-andrew-book-friends-statement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> reacted to the allegations<\/a> which surfaced and claimed: &#8221; It would be totally inaccurate to say they are devastated or heartbroken by the book, or any of this c***.<\/p>\n<p data-mce-linkchecker-status=\"valid\">&#8220;There are absolutely no new revelations\u2014it\u2019s just a rehash of things already said brought together in one place. The family used to wonder when this would ever end; now they know it never will. It\u2019s just, the tide comes in and the tide goes out,&#8221; the insider added to the <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/princess-eugenies-innocent-post-triggers-unwanted-prince-andrew-flashback\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Beast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a source close to Fergie, as she is affectionately known, said the family have been &#8220;pilloried and bullied&#8221; by the British press for years and are &#8220;well used to it by now.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new Channel 5 documentary, Andrew and Fergie: The Duke and Duchess of Excess, examined the lives of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123901,1458,77,2205,123902,123900,123899,7717,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-350356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-andrew-and-fergie-the-duke-and-duchess-of-excess","9":"tag-channel-5","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-prince-andrew","12":"tag-prince-andrew-channel-5","13":"tag-prince-andrew-royal-staff","14":"tag-royal-staff-mistreatment","15":"tag-sarah-ferguson","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115041203872026122","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}