![]() ( Reuters: Andre Camara)īut still he remained in the Queen's favour, according to palace aides. Prince Andrew served as a Royal Navy helicopter pilot in the Falklands War. In 2016, unwilling to drive 1.6 kilometres around, he rammed his Range Rover through closed gates at Windsor Great Park. He was even censured by the National Audit Office for taking a $6,800 helicopter ride just 80 kilometres for lunch with foreign diplomats. He was called "Air Miles Andy" over his penchant for luxe travel - $180,000 on a private jet to the US in 2008, $40,000 in hotel bills from a trip to Switzerland in 2009 - paid for by the taxpayer because he was the UK trade envoy. More than 500 million people around the globe tuned in when he married Sarah Ferguson in 1986, Prince Andrew resplendent in his ceremonial lieutenant's uniform.īut as he grew older, Andrew earned a reputation for having a short temper and a spending habit. "He came back a hero and was very much the golden boy of the royal family," Katie Nicholl said. Gregarious where Charles was shy, athletic where his brother was artistic, Andrew was also a Royal Navy helicopter pilot in the Falklands War. ( Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images) "Andrew has always been the Queen's favourite son and he has never done anything wrong in her eyes," Princess Diana's butler Paul Burrell said in the documentary, The Royal Family at War.Īndrew was born eight years into the Queen's reign, when she was more settled into the role and had more time to spend with her children.īy the time Prince Andrew arrived, the Queen had settled into her role as monarch. Prince Charles may be the first born and heir apparent, but royal watchers say it was his younger brother Andrew who shone bright. Sibling dynamics are always complex, but throw a crown into the mix and those relationships become incredibly tricky. He was, after all, the Queen's favourite - the blue-eyed boy who would never inherit her throne, but would always capture her heart.īut 11 years after the shutter clicked, Jeffrey Epstein is dead, Prince Andrew is fighting for his future in a courtroom, and the woman who introduced them is contemplating a life behind bars. On that chilly day in December 2010, under the sparse wintry trees in the park, the Prince didn't know this moment would be a harbinger of things to come. If the photograph never existed, the Duke of York could have minimised his relationship with Epstein, or perhaps denied altogether that they'd ever met. ![]()
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