Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor showed true colours with lavish 'demand' before Eugenie wedding

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor showed true colours with lavish 'demand' before Eugenie weddingThe status-obsessed royal reportedly spoke to his mother 'demanding' that his daughter's wedding was given the same prominence as Prince Harry's wedding to Meghan MarkleCommentsNewsMichael Moran11:23, 04 Apr 2026View 3 ImagesAndrew demanded that Eugenie's wedding would be comparable to Prince Harry's(Image: Pool, Getty Images)Many people who have met Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor have noted how the former Duke of York was acutely focused on his social status. Royal staff, in particular, speak of the one-time second-in-line to the throne demanding outrageous things from his staff.‌Insiders have spoken of "maids being summoned from four floors down to open the curtains beside his bed," and Wendy Berry, a royal housekeeper whose son also worked at Buckingham Palace, says that Andrew saw staff as 'there to serve and not to question his actions'.‌This obsession with status was on full display when Andrew's daughter Princess Eugenie was set to marry marketing executive Jack Brooksbank. With their wedding coming just months after Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's nuptials at St George's Chapel, Windsor, Andrew made it clear that Eugenie deserved at least the same level of pomp and ceremony.‌Andrew went to his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, to ask that Eugenie's wedding was broadcast live on TV, with a similar carriage procession to Harry and Meghan's. Queen Elizabeth happily agreed to these demands from her favourite son.Writing in his new book Elizabeth II and being serialised in the Daily Mail, royal biographer Robert Hardman said: "Status-conscious as ever, Prince Andrew and his ex-wife, Sarah, had been determined that Eugenie should have a comparable wedding to Harry, with live television coverage, a carriage procession, celebrity guests and so on, albeit in front of a smaller audience.&quo...