Ex-royal maid spills on Andrew and Charles’ ‘bizarre’ bathroom feud

A stand-off involving a bathroom between Prince Charles and Prince Andrew got so heated the Queen herself had to intervene, it’s been revealed.

Princes Andrew and Charles once battled over the throne – in a bathroom – and the royal row got so heated the Queen had to intervene.

The squabble unfolded around Christmas 1999 at Sandringham Estate, northeast of London, when younger brother Andrew, then 39, refused to remove his toiletries from a bathroom earmarked for Prince Charles, 51, The Sun reported.

“We were told not to move anything and not to touch anything in that bathroom because there was an ‘ongoing situation,’” Janette McGowan, then a Buckingham Palace maid who travelled with the royal family, told the outlet.

“When members of the royal family travel to Sandringham they are each allocated rooms and a bathroom.

“But Prince Andrew took the bathroom that was allocated for the Prince of Wales and he wouldn’t budge and refused to take his stuff out of it. It turned into a bizarre stand-off.”

It took the Queen to “defuse the situation,” Ms McGowan said.

The Queen was forced to intervene in her sons’ bathroom feud. Picture: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP

“She actually had to have words with Andrew and say to him that he had to use the other bathroom and that was when he finally backed down.

“He was almost 40 at the time. It was very odd behaviour for someone of that age,” she said.

Prince Andrew has been stripped of his royal titles. Picture: Chris Jackson/Pool /AFP

Prince Andrew has a history of petulant outbursts and has not gained any favour with his family in the years since.

Another servant recently reported that the Duke of York would “shout and scream” if somebody misplaced the teddy bears kept in his Buckingham Palace bedroom.

And last week the Queen stripped Prince Andrew of his royal and military titles in wake of the shame he brought the family for his association with the Jeffery Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. He now fears “complete financial ruin”.

This article originally appeared in the New York Post and was reproduced with permission