Prince Andrew ‘worried about King Charles’ but ‘still thinks he’s done a good job’ in statement on Queen, expert claims

PRINCE Andrew showed he thinks he has done a good job in supporting the monarchy in his tribute to the Queen, a royal expert claimed.

The Duke of York is also worried about his brother being King Charles because it now means there is no way back for him into the Royal Family, biographer Angela Levin added. 

Prince Andrew, 62, wrote in a tribute today: “Mummy, your love for a son, your compassion, your care, your confidence I will treasure forever.”

He also said: “Your Majesty, it has been an honour and a privilege to serve you.”

Ms Levin told The Sun: “It probably means he feels he’s done quite a good job in supporting the monarchy and has done what he should be – to serve and to help her.

“He’s given her a lot of anxiety and worry but he doesn’t feel he has. 

“He obviously feels he did well. He said it’s been an honour to serve – but it could have been a bit more of an honour if he had behaved a bit better. It’s a dark cloud hanging over him.

“He will miss her enormously. She loved him very much – it was said he was her favourite son. He had a way of twisting her round his finger.

“The latest he was doing was spending three days with her trying to persuade her to give him some role within the Royal Family.

“I think he’s quite worried about his older brother King Charles. They have never got on.

“Once upon a time when they were small, Charles would be the heir, and Andrew would be the spare.

“Times have moved on and I don’t think he’s got over that. I think he will find it difficult with Charles as King. 

“Charles has for a long time said he’s not coming back to being a member of the Royal Family. He’s 100 per cent supported by William.” 

Andrew also said he will miss her and praised the Queen’s knowledge and wisdom.

But Angela said: “Did he listen to her? When she said step back, he did. But he’s been trying very hard to get back again.

“Andrew doesn’t have a chance. When he visited the Queen not long before she died he hoped he could persuade her otherwise. 

“I’m sure he will miss the fact she’s not with him for all sorts of reasons – one is that he can’t now get what he wants.”

She also said that his reference to his mother’s love for “a son” – rather than writing “her sons” to include brothers Charles and Edward – could suggest he thinks he was the favourite.

She added there was a “touch of arrogance” in his tribute.

And Charles has shown compassion to his brother through the mourning period by allowing him to wear military uniform at a vigil guarding the Queen’s coffin this week, she insisted.

The Queen’s disgraced second son paid millions to settle a civil sexual assault case to a woman he claimed never to have met.

Virginia Giuffre sued him for allegedly sexually assaulting her when she was 17 after she was trafficked by Epstein.

Andrew denied the claims.

In January, ahead of his legal settlement, the Queen stripped him of all of his honorary military roles, including Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, and he gave up his HRH style.