Diana Gave William & Harry an Eerie Warning About Andrew as Fans Speculate About How Much She Knew: ‘It Was the Best Advice’
Princess Diana reportedly had an eerie feeling about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. The late Princess allegedly told her sons to “keep their distance” from their uncle before her death.
“Their mum told them to keep their distance from Andrew and turns out it was among the best advice she ever gave them,” a close source told Woman’s Day. It turns out that William and Harry did indeed take that advice close to heart.
Andrew Lownie claimed in his biography, The Rise and Fall of the Yorks, that William had “loathed” Andrew and his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, for years long before Charles stripped his brother of his HRH and prince titles. “He [William] also loathes Sarah [Ferguson], Andrew’s ex-wife, and can’t wait for the day when his father throws them both out,” Lownie wrote in the book.
Royal expert Ingrid Seward wrote in her book My Mother and I about Queen Elizabeth that the late monarch wanted Diana to be with Andrew instead of Charles because of the age difference. Andrew was born a year before Diana, while Charles had an age gap of almost 13 years. “I think some of Diana’s friends thought that Andrew would be more fun for her than Charles because [Andrew] was very much her age and he was full of fun and everything else,” Seward previously told Us Weekly. But, Seward said, “Diana wasn’t interested in Andrew. It was Charles she was interested in.”
And it was for a good reason, “He was very, very noisy and loud… It occurred to me that there was something troubling him,” she wrote of the ex-Prince in his youth.
His personality “wasn’t for me”, Diana claimed, adding that he was “very happy to sit in front of the television all day watching cartoons and videos”.
Diana even played matchmaker for Andrew and his now-ex-wife Sarah Ferguson after the former Duke of York complained about his love life. Lownie wrote that Diana “was in need of an ally at court” and that she invited Fergie to a royal party and “whether by luck or design,” Andrew ended up sitting next to Ferguson.
One palace source noted that Fergie “was all high-jinks and jolly-hockey sticks and practical jokes. Andy loved it, no one else did.”
However, Fergie and Diana had a falling out shortly before the latter’s death. Fergie wrote in her 2011 book Finding Sarah: A Duchess’s Journey to Find Herself that “Sadly, at the end, we hadn’t spoken for a year, though I never knew the reason, except that once Diana got something stuck in her head, it stuck there for a while.”
