Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was obsessed along with his teddy bear assortment, claims ex-maid.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has a ‘peculiar’ choice for teddies (Picture: Getty)
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s former maid as soon as revealed his weird preferences when it got here to his bed room and his beloved teddy assortment. The previous Duke of York’s obsession with the stuffed toys resurfaced within the highlight after it emerged that he couldn’t transfer his big assortment from Royal Lodge in Windsor to the a lot smaller Wooden Farm in Norfolk.
Andrew was whisked away to Norfolk underneath the darkness of evening earlier this month, after the US Division of Justice launched the newest batch of Jeffrey Epstein recordsdata, lots of which featured the previous prince. It isn’t clear what number of teddy bears function in Andrew’s assortment, however the reported quantity has at all times been between 60-70.
In accordance with German newspaper Bild, Andrew was solely allowed to maintain one teddy bear in his short-term dwelling, whereas the remaining have been put into storage for “sensible causes” together with different furnishings and private belongings.
Andrew loves his teddies (Picture: Getty)
In the meantime, Charlotte Briggs, a former maid at Buckingham Palace through the mid-Nineteen Nineties, beforehand revealed what it was wish to cope with Andrew.
She revealed that the stuffed toys needed to be completely positioned on daily basis so as of dimension and workers wanted a full day’s coaching on the best way to place them on his mattress.
She informed The Solar in 2022: “As quickly as I obtained the job, I used to be informed in regards to the teddies and it was drilled into me how he wished them.
“It took me half an hour to rearrange them — most weird factor to be paid for. Then at bedtime I needed to take all of the teddies off and prepare them across the room. They every had a set place. We needed to stack the smaller ones in an unused hearth, once more in dimension order, to make them look fairly.
“His two favorite bears sat on two thrones, both facet of the mattress. The others would sit on the foot of the mattress on the ground.”
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