Former Buckingham Palace maid has opened up about her experience working as a maid for Prince Andrew. She called the Duke of York “demanding” and ” entitled”.
Charlotte Briggs said on Thursday she was “left in tears” by Andrew’s foul mouth rants and that he once confronted her for a small gap in his curtains.
Speaking to The Sun, Ms Briggs said the prince yelled at her: ‘Can’t you f***ing do anything right?’ She ran up and down the staircase to fix the curtains. He was only yards away.
The newspaper was told by a 47-year old mother of two that he fought in Falklands for her country, but could not stand to shut his curtains.
She added, “It was absurd but said volumes about him.”
An ex-maid of Buckingham Palace said that she worked for Prince Andrew and called him ‘demanding, entitled’.
Ms Briggs, on the other hand, said the brothers of the Duke, Charles and Edward, along with the royals that she met during her stay at the palace were ‘wonderful.
At 21 she started working for Buckingham Palace. She was then able to become Andrew’s maid within six months.
Andrew, who was just 36 years old and recently separated from Sarah Ferguson, had been in this situation. Andrew would often fly out of the handle, expecting everything to be taken care of.
Halifax’s Ms Briggs spoke out after Prince Andrew lost his military title in an assault case brought against Virginia Giuffre.
Ms Giuffre says she was trafficked into having sex three times with Prince Jeffrey Epstein by Ghislaine maxwell, who is a paedophile convicted of sexual abuse. These allegations were strongly denied by the Duke of York.
Ms Briggs described how Andrew’s pillows had the Royal Crest embossed on them. He also had to place his pillow in the center of the four-poster bed. His pyjamas as well his teddy bears were to be placed precisely.
She moved from Yorkshire to London and spent six months in the Palace cleaning out offices.
Charlotte Briggs started working at Buckingham Palace when she was 21 years old. She was then tasked within six months with the job of Andrew’s maid. It was an unwelcome task, she stated. Pictured here: Andrew 1996
Ms Briggs claimed that Prince Edward opened the door to her on her first day. However, she did not encounter any royals at all.
When Andrew asked her to become his maid, she changed all that. Because of Andrew’s history for tantrums, no one else would want to do it, she claimed.
The Duke, Prince Charles and Prince Edward had moved back to their palace following his divorce. He took up residence on the nursery flooring’, where they used to play together as children.
According to Ms Briggs, though he had been a man of mature age who was in the military, the young man refused to perform any tasks himself.
“We would turn down his bed and take his teddies off, open the curtains, then lay his pajamas on. He was an unruly child and behaved as a spoilt brat,” she explained.
She recalled that he once called her from his office to have a maid come up and close his curtains.
This meant that Ms Briggs had to put on her evening gown and climb four flights of stairs in order to shut the curtains Andrew was only a few feet from.
Andrew was furious that she had left an opening at the top of the curtain, and she screamed at Andrew as she left.
She said that the royals at Buckingham Palace treated her well during her stay. She said Prince Edward was generous and that Nelson Mandela even hugged her.
Halifax native Ms Briggs spoke up for The Sun following the removal of Prince Andrew from his military titles in a suit brought against Virginia Giuffre by the United States. The allegations were denied by the Duke of York.
At the time, she was paid £600 a month and in 1996, she was even pictured on the royal balcony ahead of the Trooping the Colour ceremony, according to The Sun.
Andrew, Ms Briggs stated, destroyed her time in the palace.
The Sun also reported that Sarah Ferguson’s wedding gown was kept by the prince after their divorce in 1992. They were married in Westminster Abbey on July 26, 1986.
She also said that the former palace maid claimed her make-up was still on her dressing table. This suggested that he had a burning desire for her.
The revelations about the Duke’s outbursts will likely cause him even more embarrassment as he prepares testify against the claims made by Ms Giuffre.
It also comes after The Queen – his mother – stripped him of his royal titles, and as he is facing calls to be evicted from the Royal Lodge in Windsor where he currently lives with his ex-wife Ferguson.
MailOnline has approached Buckingham Palace for comment from Prince Andrew regarding Ms Briggs’s comments in The Sun. No response was received as of Thursday night.
Ms Briggs’ account of Prince Andrews teddy bears is not the first time they have been mentioned.
Earlier this week, former palace guard Paul Page claimed that Andrew had a bed with ’50 or 60′ stuffed toys and maids were given a laminated picture so each bear could carefully be put back in its original position.
He was a former constable and left the Metropolitan Police in 2007.
His comments came in an ITV documentary: ‘Ghislaine, Prince Andrew and the Paedophile’ that aired on Monday.
The inspector said that the toy contained approximately 50-60 stuffed toys. He also showed us a card in which he had placed the bears in their proper places.
“The reason behind the laminated photo was that if these bears weren’t returned in the proper order by their maids, he’d shout and scream.”
Writer Elizabeth Day was introduced to Andrew’s ‘strange’ teddy bear collection back in 2019 at Buckingham Palace.
The woman wrote that she was instructed to wait in the corridor, where there was only one other person, an over-sized teddy bear wedged into a chair.
“When Prince Andrew was brought in, I inquired about the item. It was a gift from Sarah Ferguson, his ex-wife. He laughed and said it.