Royal author Andrew Lonie made bombshell claims about Prince Andrew’s treatment of royal staff.

Prince Andrew is said to have mistreated his staff (Image: Getty)

A new Channel 5 documentary, Andrew and Fergie: The Duke and Duchess of Excess, examined the lives of Prince Andrew and his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson. In addition to their relationship, the show also explored the Royals’ controversial ties to Jeffrey Epstein, his lavish lifestyles, and business ventures alongside Ferguson’s financial ups and downs. During the episode, the royal biographer Andrew Lonie claimed that the Duke of York mistreated his staff members and said: “Andrew was particularly horrible to staff; he doesn’t seem to see them as normal people.

“He treats them as basically subordinates to be bossed around. I think he’s very narcissistic and everything is about him.” The author claimed: “He’ll summon his protection officer to pick up his golf balls after he’s teed them down the fairway, he will summon maids from four floors down to open the curtains. He will drop tissues he’s used on the floor and expect people to pick that up.”

Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson’s marriage was explored in the documentary (Image: Getty)

The documentary continued: “Andrew has not commented on the new claims about his behaviour towards staff.”

These bombshells were exposed in a new book about the disgraced royal and his family, The Rise and Fall Of The House of York, by Andrew Lownie.

Earlier this year, it was also reported that the Duke had previously asked for a member of staff to be moved because he “disliked a mole on the man’s face”.

This claim was made by royal author Tom Quinn, who wrote about the royal’s temper in the Times. He penned: “It’s true that some royals can display acts of ill temper. One former servant recalled how Prince Andrew insisted on a member of staff being transferred because he disliked a mole on the man’s face.

Andrew Leonie’s scathing book about Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson was released last week (Image: Getty)

The author added: “Speaking of Andrew, that another former servant asked for a man to be “moved to other duties for wearing a nylon tie.”

Ahead of Andrew Lonie’s book release, sources close to the Duke of York reacted to the allegations which surfaced and claimed: ” It would be totally inaccurate to say they are devastated or heartbroken by the book, or any of this c***.

“There are absolutely no new revelations—it’s just a rehash of things already said brought together in one place. The family used to wonder when this would ever end; now they know it never will. It’s just, the tide comes in and the tide goes out,” the insider added to the Daily Beast.

Meanwhile, a source close to Fergie, as she is affectionately known, said the family have been “pilloried and bullied” by the British press for years and are “well used to it by now.”