{"id":661915,"date":"2025-12-30T06:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T06:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/661915\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T06:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T06:44:13","slug":"william-wants-to-deal-with-andrew-before-he-becomes-king-royal-author-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/661915\/","title":{"rendered":"William &#8216;wants to deal&#8217; with Andrew before he becomes King, Royal author says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new Royal biography claims the former Duke of York will &#8220;no longer be protected&#8221; by the family<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Prince William reportedly wants to &quot;deal with&quot; Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor before he becomes King.\" class=\"content-image\" data-image-catalogue-id=\"781129\" width=\"660\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/781129.webp\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>    Prince William reportedly wants to &#8220;deal with&#8221; Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor before he becomes King.<\/p>\n<p>        Picture: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alamy.com\/stock-photo-file-pics-706585952.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nAlamy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"standfirst\">Prince William wants to &#8220;deal&#8221; with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor before he becomes King by having him removed from the family completely, a royal biographer has claimed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">According to reports, the Prince of Wales wants &#8220;the stables cleaned&#8221; when it comes to his controversial uncle, who is predicted to &#8220;go kicking and screaming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Biographer Andrew Lownie, who wrote &#8216;Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York,&#8217; believes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lbc.co.uk\/news\/uk\/met-fbi-andrew-epstein\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrew<\/a> is concerned about his position in the family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">It comes days after Mr Lownie told LBC that 2026 could see the former prince face charges for misconduct in a public office resulting from a private prosecution from the anti-monarchy group Republic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\"><strong>Read more: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lbc.co.uk\/hot-topics\/royals\/andrew-mountbatten-windsor-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor may face nightmare 2026 after losing titles and home, royal biographer warns<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\"><strong>Read more: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lbc.co.uk\/hot-topics\/royals\/king-charles-kate-middleton-prince-andrew\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The royal family in 2025: King and Kate\u2019s health and Andrew\u2019s banishment<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"The formner Duke of York is expected to go 'kicking and screaming,&quot; according to Royal biographer Andrew Lownie.\" class=\"content-image\" data-image-catalogue-id=\"781130\" width=\"660\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/781130.webp\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>    The formner Duke of York is expected to go &#8216;kicking and screaming,&#8221; according to Royal biographer Andrew Lownie.<\/p>\n<p>        Picture: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/license\/2236694509\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nGetty<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">And now the writer says William could have a job on his hands keeping the former Duke happy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">&#8220;He [Andrew] is worried about what\u2019s going to happen,&#8221; Mr Lownie told Page Six.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">&#8220;He&#8217;s going to be no longer protected. William is going to deal with him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">&#8220;He wants the stables cleaned. The window dressing is that Andrew will leave by the Spring, and he&#8217;s a good boy, and he&#8217;s done what he\u2019s been told.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">However, Mr Lownie said Andrew is rarely &#8220;a good boy&#8221; and predicts that he will &#8220;go kicking and screaming&#8217; by demanding multiple guarantees such as a &#8220;pretty big house, extensive staff, a gardener, a driver, a housekeeper and a cook.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"The future King is said to want &quot;the stables cleaned&quot; when it comes to Andrew.\" class=\"content-image\" data-image-catalogue-id=\"781131\" width=\"660\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/781131.webp\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>    The future King is said to want &#8220;the stables cleaned&#8221; when it comes to Andrew.<\/p>\n<p>        Picture: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alamy.com\/stock-photo-sandringha-713575014.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nAlamy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Andrew was previously stripped of his Royal titles earlier this year and was forced to move out of his<a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/12\/02\/royal-family\/andrew-mountbatten-windsor-and-sarah-fergusons-eviction-date-from-royal-lodge-revealed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <\/a>longtime residence, the Royal Lodge home, amid his ties to the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Mr Lownie added that the loss of titles would have been devastating to take. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">&#8220;That was the really important thing,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">&#8220;He used to describe himself as, &#8216;I&#8217;m a Prince first, a naval officer second, and a husband third.&#8217; And so he can\u2019t go on the balcony, he can&#8217;t get all the attention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">His former wife <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lbc.co.uk\/hot-topics\/royals\/sarah-ferguson-tv-offer-epstein-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarah Ferguson<\/a> was also stripped of her Duchess title earlier this year, after a leaked email showed her calling Epstein a &#8220;supreme friend&#8221; where she apologised for calling him a paedophile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Andrew denies all alleged wrongdoing against him. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new Royal biography claims the former Duke of York will &#8220;no longer be protected&#8221; by the family&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-661915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-royal","9":"tag-royal-families","10":"tag-royal-family","11":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115807169107804507","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661915","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=661915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}