Prince Andrew branded ‘greedy Duke’ whose ‘ego’ set to spark ‘royal civil war’

• The heirs to the throne, William and Charles, purportedly gave the Queen a ‘ultimatum’
• Allowing Prince Andrew to attend the Order of the Garter service.
• Andrew had been pleading with the Queen to restore his HRH designation and his job as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards.

According to The Daily Star, Prince Andrew’s continuous demands for permission to return to public life as a royal, as well as the pushback from Prince Charles and William, is destined to provoke a ‘royal civil war.’

The heirs to the throne, William and Charles, purportedly gave the Queen a ‘ultimatum’ over allowing Prince Andrew to attend the Order of the Garter service on Monday, June 13, thereby barring the disgraced Duke of York from appearing in public.

This happened only days after it was revealed that Prince Andrew had been pleading with the Queen to restore his HRH designation and his job as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, which he had lost earlier this year while undergoing a cancer battle.

“William and Charles, fretting about just how much damage one puffed-up duke might do the monarchy before it’s their chance to run the show versus the various HRHs who would seem to think they have gotten a bum deal and want a bigger helping of what they (or at least Andrew) think is rightfully theirs.”

“Unless this scenario is handled very properly, it might lead to an all-out royal war,” she added.

Elser then addressed the dilemma using the War of the Roses, an important historical event in British monarchy.

“The War of the Roses was a lengthy and complicated affair, involving decades of useless combat in which many men with names like Percy and Peregrine had their limbs hacked off on the battlefield. “The brutal dynastic war was all about power and money, and one Richard, Duke of York, was stirring the pot aggressively,” Elser wrote.

“While no one is going to lose an appendage in a muddy field any time soon,” she continued, “we now have another Duke of York whose ego and feeling of entitlement appears destined to trigger a fresh royal civil war.”

“The moral of the story is that greedy dukes don’t always get their way, which is a lesson Andrew would do well to learn, as well as swift sticks,” Elser said.