This is from The Sun; No wonder he's such a jerk
Andrew was adored so got away with acting up'
ANDREW began life the way he meant to continue, by being demanding and impatient and “roaring when he did not get his way” as a former nursemaid recalled. Elizabeth was determined to stay out of nappy changing and feeding, but she was equally determined to see a great deal more of this baby than she ever had of Charles and Anne.
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A former nursemaid of Andrew said he was prone to 'roaring when he did not get his way'Credit: PA
She walked him around the grounds of Buckingham Palace in a pram, joking it was “bearable” because she could take the corgis, and would ask his nanny to deliver
Andrew to her study or sitting room and allow him to play on the floor. But she could never quite bring herself to get down on the floor with him, and, as one nurserymaid explained, she would “no more have come to the nursery than come to the kitchen”. From the very earliest, Andrew seems to have
imbibed a sense of his own importance that outweighed that of any of his siblings, partly, no doubt, this was simply innate, but perhaps too it was the extra attention he received from his mother. A former Buckingham Palace maid recalled:
“I knew Andrew when he was out of the nursery but still fairly young. "It’s very difficult to be fair to him because he was so horrible. He treated the staff as if they were dirt. Imagine a little boy walking up to a middle-aged man who had worked for the Queen for decades and saying, ‘Bring me that horse’, referring to a toy on the other side of the room, and the poor man would have to fetch it. His manner was always like this. He had screaming fits if he didn’t get his way in everything. He would walk past the sentries again and again to force them to present arms. He teased the corgis mercilessly, smashed things when he didn’t get his way and often tried to hit his nanny or the nurserymaid. He put porridge in the footmen’s pockets and would stand in front of them again and again knowing that when he did it, they had to bow. The odd thing was that Philip adored him and would put up with bad behaviour that would have made him roar if it had been Charles or even Anne. I remember once Andrew threw a valuable toy out of a window and Philip just laughed. Everyone said Andrew got away with almost any amount of bad behaviour because both his mother and his father adored him.”
Andrew’s tendency to act like a spoilt brat only got worse as he got older but occasionally the staff got the better of him.
When he was five he was staying at Windsor and bored, so he wandered into the stables and began to tease the grooms and stable lads, even going so far as to hit the legs of the horses with a stick.After the stable staff politely suggested that perhaps he should go elsewhere, his behaviour became so awful that they threw him on a dung heap and shovelled horse manure on top of him.Enraged, he ran off shouting that he would tell his mother.The Queen, always an excellent judge in matters such as this, told Andrew it served him right and nothing was ever said to the stable staff.
Andrew was furious they were not punished."
It seems he has'nt changed at all over the years
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