Prince Andrew was not Queen Elizabeth’s favourite baby — this is who was: royal creator

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By Samantha Ibrahim

The disgraced Prince Andrew is commonly cited as the favourite baby of Queen Elizabeth II.

However the late monarch might have liked one other of her sons extra.

In a brand new biography, titled “The Queen,” royal creator Matthew Dennison claims Elizabeth’s youngest baby, Prince Edward, the Duke of Edinburgh, was really the apple of her eye.

Elizabeth, who died final 12 months on the age of 96, was mom to 4 kids — King Charles, 74, Princess Anne, 72, Andrew, 63, and Edward, 59.

“Prince Edward, seemingly a bit moist and a tad irritating to the remainder of us, was at all times his dad and mom’ favourite,” Dennison writes in his new tome.

“That grew to become obvious in 1987 when Edward, aged 22, opted out of the Royal Marines when he was only a third of the way in which by means of his 12-month primary coaching course.”

“To the shock of some, Prince Philip (Edward’s father and Captain-Normal of the Royal Marines) didn’t come down on his son like a ton of bricks,” the creator continued.

The biographer added that the late Prince Philip “accepted that the Marine’s wasn’t proper for Edward– and to this present day Edward is grateful for that.”

Nevertheless, royal correspondent Camilla Tominey additionally gave her opinion on the state of affairs, saying she nonetheless believes Andrew was the Queen’s favourite baby..

“Andrew was simple and the extra glass-half-full of the pair [Andrew and Edward],” she instructed the Express

“Though he may very well be a little bit of a handful, the Queen loved the corporate of the easy-going son who might make her chuckle and lift the household’s spirits,” Tominey added.

In recent times, Andrew’s life has been filled with scandals, particularly his friendship with the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, in addition to the previous lawsuit filed in opposition to him by alleged intercourse abuse sufferer, Virginia Roberts Giuffre.

Within the A&E documentary, “Secrets and techniques of Prince Andrew,” launched this previous August, consultants revealed that there was pressure between Andrew and his older brother, Charles.

“[Prince] Andrew was an accident ready to occur for years,” British biographer Andrew Lownie defined. “We all know from Prince Harry that the ‘spare’ creates an concept of resentment and jealousy,”

“Charles’ future was ordained and this arrange tensions between Andrew and Charles. He thought Andrew had a better journey at life,” he went on.

He remarked how Andrew was a prankster in his youth and “was indulged within the ways in which the opposite kids weren’t as a result of boundaries had been by no means set for him.”

Lownie said: “Everybody talks about him not rising up. He’s a form of Peter Pan determine and has been emotionally stunted.”