Boris Johnson drops new Andrew bombshell – ‘I needed to ban him’ | Royal | News | EUROtoday

Boris Johnson has opened up on his final dialog with disgraced Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor when he needed to ban him from attending a serious occasion in concern of embarrassing the late Queen Elizabeth. The former Duke of York has not been banished in exile in Norfolk, however is staying in a short lived dwelling earlier than his transfer to Marsh Farm, inside the King’s Sandringham property.

Andrew’s fall from grace got here after the bombshell revelations about his affiliation with Jeffrey Epstein within the newest tranche of information launched by the US Department of Justice. Last week, Andrew was additional humiliated after being arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public workplace and launched 11 hours later underneath investigation. But his downward spiral started unravelling in 2019, following his disastrous BBC Newsnight interview about Epstein, shortly earlier than he introduced he could be stepping down as a senior working member of the Royal Family.

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke in regards to the final assembly with the previous Duke, which occurred whereas he was in workplace, and he needed to “ban him” from attending a giant ceremony because of the furore that sparked after his BBC interview.

Mr Johnson wrote within the Daily Mail: “The second long – and indeed the last conversation I had with Andrew – took place when I was PM, and I was for some reason deputed to tell him that he could not attend some big public ­ceremony, for fear of embarrassing his mother and the whole institution of the monarchy.

“This time I had to go to Windsor to break the bad news. He was not thrilled. I tried to cheer him up.

“Look, I said, he needed to be a bit humble. He had to understand how people felt about things, ever since that disastrous interview on Newsnight.

“He needed to build back his reputation.”

Ms Johnson’s hope steered removed from actuality as Andrew’s status has solely gotten worse after embarrassing footage of him kneeling over a lady on all fours emerged from the most recent doc drop.

Andrew has all the time denied any wrongdoing and he has not commented on the most recent Epstein information.