The Duke failed to make the military academy’s top 200 people at the Royal Military Accademy at Sandhurst, despite his brother making the cut and even penning the foreword to the exclusive guide.
Andrew has reportedly vowed to fight any attempt made by King Charles to evict him from Royal Lodge following the release of court documents detailing sexual assault allegations.
Scotland Yard was last night urged by ex-chief superintendent Dai Davies (pictured) to interview the personal protection officers who accompanied Prince Andrew on trips to meet Jeffrey Epstein.
The latest tranche of papers, which have heaped fresh embarrassment on Andrew, claim the royal enjoyed daily massages at the financier’s Palm Beach lair.
Juan Alessi, who worked at Epstein’s Palm Beach residence, said both Prince Andrew and his then wife Sarah, Duchess of York, were friends with him and sex-trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
Plans were already in train to evict him from Royal Lodge, his ten-bedroom Windsor home since 2003, and move him to a smaller residence in keeping with his ‘downgraded’ status.
Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II will abdicate on January 14 next year after 52 years on the throne, she announced during her traditional New Year’s Eve speech.
Three years before John Profumo resigned in disgrace from Harold Macmillan’s government, the then War Secretary was being urged to confront the Queen.
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: The late Queen sanctioned a St George’s Chapel Windsor funeral for Fergie followed by internment at the Royal Family burial ground at Frogmore.
The Crown star Dominic West was such a firm friend of his fellow Old Etonian the Duke of Sussex that they trekked to the South Pole together in aid of the charity Walking for the Wounded.