Meghan Markle ‘troubled’ by ‘stuffy’ Prince Andrew who is ’embarrassing uncle’ with ‘puerile’ jokes, insiders say
MEGHAN Markle sees Prince Andrew as the "ultimate embarrassing uncle", a royal insider claimed today.
The former actress was already less than impressed by the Duke of York's "stuffy" behaviour when they met - with the Jeffrey Epstein scandal only deepening the divide.
And a royal source today told The Sun Online that Prince Andrew was one member of the Royal Family Meghan would not miss after she and Prince Harry quit as royals, moving to Canada for a new life.
They said: "Put it this way, she doesn’t view Andrew as one of the Family’s great assets and he’s not going to be one of the people she’s going to miss on her time away from the Windsors.
"She views him as the ultimate embarrassing uncle.”
It comes after it was claimed Meghan was left troubled hearing Prince Andrew's car crash interview about his friendship with paedo Epstein - with the royal saying it was a "positive act to have sex with somebody" as a man.
The source added: ";Meghan is not enamoured of Andrew at all.
"Not just because of his questionable attitude to women and how he referred to them in that awful Newsnight interview, in which he was talking in an almost alien language, as if all women were conquests.
"Meeting the real Andrew was even worse - she told a friend that she couldn’t see the attraction - he wasn’t exactly welcoming to her and that he was stuffy and pompous. And that he kept on making awful, puerile jokes - which he seemed to find hilarious."
It comes after the FBI this week claimed they had received "zero cooperation" from Prince Andrew with their investigation into his paedo pal Jeffrey Epstein.
(Meghan) views him as the ultimate embarrassing uncle
Royal insider
During the BBC interview, Andrew had said he would have to consult with his lawyers before testifying under oath about his ties to Epstein.
And in a statement after the broadcast, he said: “Of course, I am willing to help any appropriate law enforcement agency with their investigations, if required.”
The Panorama interview also saw Prince Andrew defend his relationship with Epstein.
At one point, interview Emily Maitlis asked the 59-year-old royal if he had ever had sex with Virginia Giuffre Roberts or "any young woman trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein".
Prince Andrew replied: "No and without putting too fine a point on it, if you’re a man it is a positive act to have sex with somebody.
"You have to take some sort of positive action and so therefore if you try to forget it's very difficult to try and forget a positive action and I do not remember anything."
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A source said Meghan - a feminist who regularly campaigns for women's rights - was left "troubled" by Prince Andrew's comments.
The duchess has since been spotted in Canada near her new home - beaming as she walked with baby Archie and her dogs.
The pair were joined by Prince Harry after he flew in from London, securing Megxit with the Queen in a crunch summit at Sandringham.
