Ex-Royal Butler Reveals Andrew's Behavior Behind Palace Walls: 'Didn't Want to Be in His Presence'
Former royal butler Grant Harrold claims that Andrew carried a strong sense of superiority, which made him uncomfortable to be around.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor doesn't exactly hold the best reputation among his staff. Unlike other members of the royal family, the former Duke of York was allegedly seen as abrasive and indifferent by those who had the misfortune of working with him. Now, former royal butler Grant Harrold has echoed these claims in a recent interview, alleging that Mountbatten-Windsor carried a strong sense of superiority, which often made the staff uncomfortable and reluctant to be around him.
In an interview on the LadBible Stories YouTube Channel, Harrold shed light on Mountbatten-Windsor's behavior behind the scenes. He said, "My interactions with him [Andrew] were very few and far between, and when I did have any dealings with him, in fairness to him, he was polite." Adding how he felt around Mountbatten-Windsor's alleged superiority complex, he stressed, "With him [Andrew], he had this—I can't even explain it to you—I just didn't want to be in his presence. Also, you know, from colleagues in the royal household, none of them ever had a nice thing to say about him. And I always see the good in everyone."
The former royal butler, who often praises the royal family, revealed that none of the other members had the same attitude as Mountbatten-Windsor. Recalling an incident from King Charles and Queen Camilla's 2005 wedding, which he attended as a guest, he shared that the former prince deliberately refrained from speaking to aides who were there as guests. He continued, "There would be a kind of 'thank you' or whatever, but there was also this feeling of, as a lot of people describe, an entitled feeling. You got the feeling he [Andrew] thought he was better than everyone, just his mannerisms and his...the way he was."
Unsurprisingly, Harrold has made similar claims about Mountbatten-Windsor's callous attitude towards his aides. According to the Daily Express, he once recounted, "The character that I remember, unfortunately, was never rude to me, but he [Andrew] was quite kind of dismissive because I was there as a butler. He was the only royal I never had any kind of conversation with, even in a social situation." As for why the former prince was least interested in interacting with his employees, he stressed, "Because you were staff, he wouldn't speak to you, he was always very kind of dismissive, he was never rude."
As if that weren't enough, revelations of Mountbatten-Windsor's alleged bad behavior were first exposed in Andrew Lownie's book, Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the Yorks, where the author pulled the curtains on his routine mistreatment of employees. In the scathing biography, he detailed how the former prince would reportedly fly into a rage if his collection of 72 teddy bears wasn't perfectly arranged on his bed. Lownie argued that Mountbatten-Windsor's alleged instructions for his aides were always, "I want this done, and I want this done now!"
