A few new tidbits, the rest is known.


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Prince William, in particular, a royal insider told me this week, has been 'smouldering on the sidelines' ever since the release earlier this month of a pompous, self-aggrandising statement by Andrew in which he used the royal 'we' to conclude he would 'put my duty to my family and country first' and 'no longer use the honours which have been conferred on me'.

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The then Prince of Wales believed his brother's proclamations of innocence and thought, along with the Queen and Princess Beatrice, that the interview would 'clear the air'. 'That ended in disaster and woe betide anyone who mentions his involvement now,' says the royal insider.

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The Kent family are said to have considered not inviting Andrew to the service. In the end, according to a source, they asked him to use a side door at Westminster Cathedral, 'to avoid a fuss' and, for the sake of discretion, he and Sarah Ferguson were allocated seats in the south aisle, close to that door.

According to the source: 'There was genuine shock from everyone when Andrew and Sarah arrived by the front door, strutted down the aisle and afterwards joined the family on the steps for the Duchess's departure. They treated it like a jolly family outing.'

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Suggestions this week that William put pressure on his cousins to get Andrew out of Royal Lodge are not true, although he is said to have met with Beatrice and been in contact with her and Eugenie by phone over the past fortnight.

'He would never target them for the sins of their father,' says the royal insider. And if there's any future trouble from their shameless parents, officials could resort to using that secret dossier.

Currently under lock and key in a safe, it has been added to since the 1990s with the help of servants, security officers and embassy staff overseas and is seen as an 'insurance policy' should the former Duke and Duchess 'decide to try their luck'.

While it is said Andrew would never turn on the institution in which he was raised, particularly given his daughters are still inside it, that 'luck', in Sarah Ferguson's case, might be seen to refer to the potential threat of her writing a tell-all memoir or, as she has in the past, giving interviews to the likes of Oprah Winfrey. Fergie, it is said, is 'rocked' by the speed with which their fates have been sealed. 'To see it all taken away so swiftly and brutally has really set her on the edge,' says the insider.

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If in the past he was a stickler for bows and curtseys from staff, then should Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie visit him, by rights he should be bowing to them.

He is unlikely to have room in his new abode for anything more than a cook or housekeeper. He will also lose the luxury of meals delivered from the kitchens at Windsor Castle.

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