LBC listeners were left disgusted as the show went to a livestream from the House of Commons, with MP Monica Harding reading aloud some of the bombshell claims officials have made about the former Prince Andrew during his time as Trade Envoy. The Liberal Democrat MP stood up to share some of the “horror stories” that have been told – including one about an ironing board.
She read aloud: “In the early noughties, I was working overseas, as I said, with the British Council. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor visited us as part of his role as a UK trade envoy. There were rumours about him – that he refused to stay in the ambassador’s residence, would only stay in the Four Seasons or similar, top-end hotels.
“And that he took with him an ironing board overseas when he went. That was a euphemism for a massage table.”
“Andrew, as I have said, came to an exhibition I had put on about Dolly the Sheep – at the time the pinnacle of British innovation – and we were rightly proud of it as an example of UK scientific excellence.
“One of my team, a young Japanese woman who worked for the British government as a member of staff of the British Council, her job was to promote the UK. [She] showed the then prince around with some Japanese dignitaries.
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“‘Dolly the Sheep’, he sneered, ‘is rubbish. Frankenstein sheep,’ he said. My team member was deflated and didn’t understand why this representative of the British state diminished what she was rightly proud of.”
Another anecdote went: “My late father-in-law, Air Vice-Marshal in the RAF, was at a dinner overseas with Mountbatten-Windsor on an overseas trip in the 1990s. Windsor said in front of many foreign military and diplomatic seniors: ‘No need for a Royal Air Force.’
“My father-in-law said nothing, and that was the problem. You couldn’t, because of Windsor’s privileged position.”