Prince William tells Princess Anne ‘I’ve had enough of hearing his name’, lipreader reveals
A lip reader found that during the Commonwealth Day service this week, Prince William told his aunt: ‘I’ve had enough of hearing his name.’
The tense moment was analysed by a forensic lip-reading expert, Nicola Hickling, who said it was unclear what Princess Anne said before William gave his fiery response.
The Commonwealth Day Service marked the largest gathering of senior royals since the arrest and drama surrounding disgraced Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
Its believed Williams comments may have been in reference to his uncle, or to Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced paedophile.
William wasn’t the only royal to seem stressed at the event in Westminster Abbey – expert Nicola also caught a moment from King Charles.
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When Prince William arrived at the reception, the King allegedly mouthed ‘Oh finally,’ before he kissed his father on both cheeks.
Charles then appeared to mouth to his sister: ‘It’s not good out there. It’s rather tense, isn’t it? It’s not good.’
Before entering Westminster Abbey, both William and Charles were heckled and asked what they knew about Andrew.
Republic waved flags and held banners reading, ‘Done with the crown’ and ‘Not my king’ while chanting at the royals: ‘Charlie, Charlie, time to go.’
Some held up signs with a photograph of Mountbatten-Windsor with Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who sued the ex-prince for sexual assault.
Andrew, Charles’ younger brother, was arrested last month on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
He was questioned at a police station for 11 hours on his 66th birthday before being released pending an investigation.
The arrest came only days after details about his relationship with the convicted sex offender Epstein came to light in a batch of the Epstein files.
Among the tranche of thousands of documents released by US officials was a photograph appearing to show the royal kneeling over a woman.
A third photo showed Andrew looking at the camera while on all fours next to the woman, whose face was blurred.
Andrew has continued to deny all wrongdoing.
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