A former maid has revealed the bizarre spat occurred in December 1999 when the Duke of York – who was then aged 39 – claimed the bathroom his brother, and future king, Prince Charles, wanted to use.He then refused to move his toiletries when royal staff let him know the mistake – and only backed down after The Queen herself got involved.Former Buckingham Palace maid Janette McGowan told The Sun of the odd stoush.“We were told not to move anything and not to touch anything in that bathroom because there was an ‘ongoing situation’.”But she told how it was eventually sorted out by the Queen having words with Andrew while Charles waited patiently for a resolution.“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.“In the end The Queen herself had to intervene to defuse the situation. 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.Janette, 65, was a housemaid there from 1999 to 2000 and said there was nothing special bout it – she thought Prince Andrew wanted it because it was allocated to his brother.“There was nothing special about the bathroom. It was just a good old sibling row.”Last week it was revealed how Charles and son Prince William advised the Queen that Andrew’s role in the Royal Family had become untenable amid his ongoing sex claim scandal.The pair are said to have urged her to strip him of him royal and military titles and effectively banish him from the Royal FamilyThe toilet row revelation comes after Buckingham Palace worker Charlotte Briggs was left in tears by foul-mouthed rants from the “demanding and entitled” Duke.Ms Briggs said Charlotte recalled how he had “behaved like a spoiled brat” when he didn’t get his way.The 47 year-old said that he would make her run up four flights of stairs to close his curtains, despite the fact that he was sat right next to them.She told The Sun: “One night I’d done it all, I walked back into the corridor and he came out screaming, ‘Can’t you f***ing do anything right?’ I’d left a little gap where they met but they were extremely heavy.“I was thinking, ‘You want to shut your own curtains’ but you can’t say anything. You have to absorb it.“It was awful and he brought me to tears. I was only 21 and had little life experience.”
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