{"id":187644,"date":"2026-04-06T21:39:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/187644\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T21:39:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:39:06","slug":"andrew-allegedly-in-physical-altercation-with-late-queens-senior-aide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/187644\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew allegedly in \u2018physical altercation\u2019 with late Queen\u2019s senior aide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor once allegedly became embroiled in a \u201cphysical altercation\u201d with a senior aide working for Queen Elizabeth.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s claimed the then-Duke of York attacked Vice-Admiral Sir Tony Johnstone-Burt, master of the household, because he reportedly was unable to fulfil his request to host a Pitch@Palace event at Buckingham Palace.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative was launched by the former prince in 2014 as a start-up accelerator and ran until 2019, collapsing following his resignation from royal duties.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the alleged fight have been detailed in Robert Hardman\u2019s new royal book, Elizabeth II: In Private. In Public. The Inside Story, serialised in the <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/royals\/article-15701359\/andrew-mountbatten-windsor-hit-vice-admiral-buckingham-palace-robert-hardman-elizabeth-ii.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daily Mail<\/a> ahead of its release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a routine household matter,\u201d a senior royal staff member told Hardman. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Duke wanted to have a reception, and there wasn\u2019t any room. It was as simple as that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTony said he\u2019d have to wait his turn like anybody else, and the Duke went for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MORE:<a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realestate.com.au\/news\/queen-elizabeths-57m-royal-lodge-mansion-falling-into-disrepair\/?campaignType=external&amp;campaignChannel=syndication&amp;campaignName=ncacont&amp;campaignContent=&amp;campaignSource=newscomau&amp;campaignPlacement=spa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> $57m Queen lodge now a dump under Andrew<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author described how the furious outburst was not just \u201cexpletives and a jab of the finger\u201d but instead a \u201ckinetic\u201d blow, leaving other household employees shocked.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew\u2019s father, the late Prince Philip, was reportedly so concerned by the incident that he personally sent an apology letter to the senior aide.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Andrew apparently felt differently.<\/p>\n<p>Hardman wrote that Sir Tony notified the Lord Chamberlain of the alleged altercation, who reported it to then-Prince Charles.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:<a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realestate.com.au\/news\/real-cost-of-renting-queen-elizabeths-57m-royal-lodge-mansion-revealed\/?campaignType=external&amp;campaignChannel=syndication&amp;campaignName=ncacont&amp;campaignContent=&amp;campaignSource=newscomau&amp;campaignPlacement=realestatemodule\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"www.realestate.com.au\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Shock: Andrew paid Queen Lodge with pepper<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After being confronted by his brother about the issue, Andrew allegedly called the Lord Chamberlain himself, telling him: \u201cI gather you\u2019ve been calling people and causing problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the preview for Hardman\u2019s book he described the stunned reaction within the royal household to Andrew\u2019s infamous 2019 Newsnight interview.<\/p>\n<p>According to the author, he had gone against all internal advice to record the trainwreck tell-all with journalist Emily Maitlis, with a senior aide recalling how \u201ceveryone in his office had been told that this should not happen\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The interview had catastrophic consequences for the then-prince, who was forced to resign from his royal duties \u2013 a point at which the late Queen was reportedly \u201cvery, very down\u201d, and at her \u201cworst\u201d moment, according to a source.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was very stoical,\u201d a source told Hardman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe understood the need. But it was very, very painful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Andrew was stripped of his titles and evicted from Royal Lodge by the King late last year, and was arrested in February at his new home in Norfolk following the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files in the weeks prior.<\/p>\n<p>He was released after 11 hours in custody but remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor once allegedly became embroiled in a \u201cphysical altercation\u201d with a senior aide working for Queen Elizabeth.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[64989,7987,75243,75241,75251,75256,26531,23815,75246,3995,6615,75245,5886,75250,75242,6769,4043,75254,9,24,2851,1492,75260,34634,63,75240,6614,20095,3994,75257,122,124,123,75252,75249,75248,75244,75255,11559,15373,75247,75258,75259,75253,5878,1371,418],"class_list":{"0":"post-187644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-agence-france-presse","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-apology-letter","11":"tag-british-broadcasting-corporation","12":"tag-causing-problems","13":"tag-chamberlain","14":"tag-charles","15":"tag-daily-mail","16":"tag-daniel-leal","17":"tag-duke-of-edinburgh","18":"tag-duke-of-york","19":"tag-emily-maitlis","20":"tag-europe","21":"tag-getty-images-inc","22":"tag-household-employees","23":"tag-jeffrey-epstein","24":"tag-london","25":"tag-mahmoud-abdul-rauf","26":"tag-new-york","27":"tag-new-york-city","28":"tag-norfolk","29":"tag-north-america","30":"tag-northern-america","31":"tag-northern-europe","32":"tag-nyc","33":"tag-physical-altercation","34":"tag-prince-andrew","35":"tag-prince-of-wales","36":"tag-prince-philip","37":"tag-queen-elizabeth-ii-of-the-commonwealth-realms","38":"tag-queens","39":"tag-queens-headlines","40":"tag-queens-news","41":"tag-reality-television-series","42":"tag-robert-hardman","43":"tag-routine-household-matter","44":"tag-royal-duties","45":"tag-royal-household","46":"tag-royal-lodge","47":"tag-sarah-ferguson","48":"tag-senior-aide","49":"tag-senior-royal","50":"tag-senior-royal-aide","51":"tag-tony-johnstone-burt","52":"tag-united-kingdom","53":"tag-united-states-of-america","54":"tag-virginia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}