Now ex-Prince Andrew’s former maid has revealed what it was really like working for him in an earlier interview.
talking with The sunthe maid described the “disgraced” royal’s unusual habit of keeping 72 stuffed toys carefully arranged on his bed.
Charlotte Briggs, who worked at Buckingham Palace in the mid-1990s, said staff were given a full day of training on how to place the toy exactly the way the former Duke of York liked it.
“As soon as I got the job I was told about the teddy bears and it was drilled into me how he wanted them,” she revealed of King Charles’ brother.
She explained that each teddy bear had to be placed in a precise order of size and location, with nothing out of place.
“I even had a day of training. Everything had to be just right. It was so peculiar,” she added. “But he absolutely loved the teddy bears and was very clear about how he wanted them arranged.”
Recently, the former Duke of York received the biggest shock of his life after King Charles stripped him of his royal titles, including prince, and ordered him to leave his royal residence, the Royal Lodge.
