Prince Andrew plans explosive tell-all autobiography to fix reputation but friends warn he risks looking ‘stupid’
PRINCE Andrew wants to write an explosive, tell-all Royal autobiography, dubbed Spare 2.0, to try to repair his tattered reputation.
The disgraced Duke of York, 63, had told pals he wants to change the public’s perception of him more than three years after his car-crash Jeffrey Epstein Newsnight interview.
But the prince, also facing losing his home and funding in a shake-up of royal finances, is annoyed that friends have warned him off the idea.
Sources have described his proposed book as Spare 2.0 as it comes after Prince Harry’s bombshell memoir rocked the Royal Family.
But one insider said: “Everyone close to him is telling him it’s a stupid idea and he should just forget it.”
Two leading publishers are said to be interested in any autobiography.
Andrew, who has been eyeing the commercial success of his nephew’s book, is rumoured to be in discussions with US biographer and interviewer Daphne Barak.
But she is currently busy working on a separate book with a famous showbiz family.
Any memoir by the Queen’s son would be a global best-seller.
He is desperate for future funds after telling friends he has received no inheritance from the Queen when she died.
And King Charles’ plans to slash royal funding could soon see him “evicted” from his Windsor home unless he can fork out for expensive maintenance of the £30million mansion Royal Lodge.
A source said: “Andrew was the original spare and there’s plenty of material.
“Compared to Harry, he has a far greater depth of history to draw from.
“Writing a book would give him the opportunity to fully explain his association with Jeffrey Epstein and the resulting fall-out.
“But it would also be a fascinating insight into the inner workings of the royals and their relationships.”
“But mainly he wants to set the record straight. If he doesn’t change the narrative, no one else will.”
DRESSER 'EVICTED'
A CLOSE confidante and dresser of the late Queen fears losing her grace-and-favour home on the Windsor estate.
Angela Kelly, 65, who was regarded as the Queen’s right-hand woman, thought she would always be allowed to live there as a gesture for her 20-plus years of loyal service.
But the daughter of a Liverpool docker believes she will have to move out ‘within weeks’ as King Charles continues his streamlining of Royal property and finances.
There have been reports that some in the Royal household were suspicious of Ms Kelly, particularly after she wrote a book in 2019 about dressing the Queen.
It also emerged today Ms Kelly was made a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, rather than the expected higher rank of Dame Commander, in special awards given out by King Charles marking the death of the Queen.
She was caught up in the ‘tiara-gate’ rumpus when Prince Harry was said to have fallen out with Ms Kelly over a tiara Meghan wanted to wear to her wedding in May 2018.
Tonight the Mail on Sunday reported she had been told to leave her semi-detached home on the Windsor estate ‘within weeks’.