{"id":199115,"date":"2019-12-11T07:33:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T07:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=199115"},"modified":"2019-12-13T08:25:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T08:25:30","slug":"craig-brown-to-servants-theres-just-one-prince-of-oafs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=199115","title":{"rendered":"Craig Brown: To servants, there’s just one Prince of Oafs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Craig Brown \u2013 Daily Mail Dec 10, 2019<\/h1>\n
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Prince Andrew pictured during his recent interview with Emily Maitlis. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

On November 28, 2001, Gyles Brandreth attended a reception at Buckingham Palace for bigwigs in the media.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Queen was telling a small group of guests how Prince Andrew<\/span><\/strong><\/a> and Prince Edward were keen on \u2018surfing the Net\u2019 (a phrase that nowadays seems rather quaint) when up behind them came the Duke of York.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018Her Majesty moves on,\u2019 Brandreth recorded in his diary, \u2018and I say to her son, \u201cI\u2019ve just been hearing how you\u2019re a dab-hand with a mouse.\u201d\u2019 \u201cNo,\u201d he booms, \u201cI\u2019m more of a nipple man myself.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

After this revelation, the Prince drifts off and \u2018bounds cheerily between female newscasters\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eighteen years on, it seems unlikely Prince Andrew will be cracking this sort of \u2018joke\u2019 at a future Palace reception, or even that he will be invited to one. And after his unfortunate encounter with Emily Maitlis, female newscasters may not hold quite the same appeal.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s fascinating how memories echo across time, giving off different sounds. For instance, in her 1995 memoir, The Housekeeper\u2019s Diary, the Prince of Wales\u2019s housekeeper Wendy Berry recalled Jimmy Savile dropping in at Highgrove on one of his regular visits.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018As he waited for the Prince he puffed on his cigar and sent great clouds of blue smoke into the air. He knew that smoking was officially frowned on in the house but just laughed it off, saying, \u201cOh, the Boss won\u2019t mind. He knows how much I like my cigars.\u201d\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

This was, of course, long before the sordid truth about Savile was known, which makes the housekeeper\u2019s innocent account all the more telling.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Prince and the Paedophile, Jimmy Savile and Prince Charles. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2018Strolling around in his tracksuit, with the laces of his training shoes left undone, Jimmy Savile was the most unlikely spiritual comforter for Charles that could be imagined. He would drive up in his enormous mobile home and leave it parked like some incongruous monster in the back yard.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018\u201cAh, Jimmy,\u201d laughed the Prince as Paul [the butler] ushered him through to the drawing room. \u201cHow nice of you to come.\u201d The pair remained shut away for over an hour.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Memoirs written below stairs tend to be infinitely more revealing than those written above. Recalling the two younger Princes, Wendy Berry found Edward \u2018utterly charming and polite\u2019, but Andrew boorish and rude. Her son James, who worked at Buckingham Palace, told her of Andrew\u2019s tendency \u2018to barge his way around the house, expecting to be looked after and served for every whim\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

A propensity for parading naked in front of staff was, it seems, evident. On a weekend\u2019s shooting with the Duke of Westminster, \u2018the Prince had just gone off for a bath when the bell rang. \u201cCome in, come in,\u201d shouted Andrew as James knocked on the door. \u201cWhere the bloody hell are my black socks \u2014 the ones with the stripe at the top?\u201d He was standing in the middle of the room stark naked, vigorously rubbing his wet hair with a towel . . . Staff were practically invisible as far as he was concerned\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

On one occasion, a call from one of the staff was put through to the young Prince. Rather than politely telling the caller that the telephonist must have made a mistake, he simply barked, \u2018Wrong bloody room, idiot,\u2019 and hung up.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another royal servant, Malcolm Barker, also found Prince Edward \u2018kind and sensitive\u2019 while Andrew \u2018was a different matter\u2019. In his 1990 memoirs, Barker recorded how, as an 11-year-old, Prince Andrew tied footmen\u2019s shoe laces together and then ordered them about.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ten years later, he noted that the Prince was \u2018forever dragging the worst bunch of tarts up to dine with his mother, each seeming to compete with the previous for lack of brains. The one characteristic his girlfriends did not lack though was ample breasts\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is interesting insofar as it reveals that long before he was exposed as a paedophile, Jimmy Savile was a regular guest at the palace. Why was he so welcome? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":198384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[86,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jimmy-savile-scandal","category-The_Rotten_Royals"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199115"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199141,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199115\/revisions\/199141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/198384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}