{"id":191064,"date":"2026-04-09T16:38:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/191064\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T16:38:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:38:31","slug":"queens-husband-forced-to-apologise-after-andrews-shocking-palace-brawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/191064\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen&#8217;s husband forced to apologise after Andrew&#8217;s shocking palace brawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/659261_090559_updates.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"686\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\" Queen's husband forced to apologise after Andrew's shocking palace brawl\"\/>\u00a0Queen&#8217;s husband forced to apologise after Andrew&#8217;s shocking palace brawl<\/p>\n<p>The British royal family is going through a tough period, dealing with health issues, internal conflicts and the fallout from Prince Andrew&#8217;s scandal.<\/p>\n<p>King Charles&#8217; yonger brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor once caused a serious trouble for the senior royals with his alleged &#8216;physical altercation&#8217; with a Palace staff member.<\/p>\n<p>Queenn Elizabeth II&#8217;s husband, Prince Philip, was so concerned by his son&#8217;s behaviour that he had to write a formal letter of apology to Sir Tony Johnstone-Burt.<\/p>\n<p>A wild brawl that allegedly took place between Andrew and a senior aide has been detailed by royal biographer Robert Hardman.<\/p>\n<p>The author told GB News: &#8220;Everyone found him pretty exasperating&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The incident , Hardman claims, &#8220;came to a head one day&#8221; when the former prince was &#8220;demanding&#8221; access to a room at Buckingham Palace for a Pitch@Palace event.<\/p>\n<p>Founded by the former Duke of York in 2014, Pitch@Palace was created to support tech startups and connect them with investors.<\/p>\n<p>It was dissolved in 2026 following reports his association with Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>For the event, Andrew was allegedly told there were no rooms available and that he would &#8220;have to wait, like everybody else&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Hardman, in his book, &#8220;Queen Elizabeth II&#8221; released on April 9, detailed the alleged incident to the People&#8217;s Channel: &#8220;It ended up with him pushing, punching&#8230;it was described to me as a kinetic blow, and a very distinguished, much-liked, much-trusted, very senior royal aide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The royal commentator claimed the Queen, who is said to have found out about the incident later, &#8220;was not surprised&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was just typical of Andrew&#8217;s boorish behaviour,&#8221; the biographer added.<\/p>\n<p>The book also claims Prince Philip wrote a formal letter of apology to master of the household, Sir Tony Johnstone-Burt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0Queen&#8217;s husband forced to apologise after Andrew&#8217;s shocking palace brawl The British royal family is going through a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-191064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191064","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=191064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}