Royal Security Officer On Life Inside The Royal Family | Minutes With | @LADbible​

In this week's episode of Minutes With we sat down with Paul Page, who used to work as a royal protection officer, providing security to the members of the Royal family. Paul told us what poses the most security threat to the Royals, explained what members of the family were like and why Prince Andrew was the most difficult and unpleasant to deal with.

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[kirstencooper]

I have a member of family who did a military course with Prince Andrew when he was in the military.
When he arrived for the course, he approached the commanding officer and said 'hello, you can refer to me as Prince Andrew'.
To which the commanding officer replied 'Good morning, Prince Andrew. You can refer to me as "Sir" '

[johnmanser]

I am a retired Police Officer. A colleague, we were PC's together in the 1960's, who later rose to the rank of Ch.Insp. was responsible for supplying vehicles to Royalty for their personal use. He hated having to deal with Prince Andrew describing him as an absolute pig.

[cmenorp]

Kudos to this man for being brave enough to speak out like this.

[TinasCrazyLife]

How an individual treats a janitor, a bus boy and so on will Always tell me more about a person than how they would treat a CEO.

[boahnation]

It's strange... Andrew lives quite literally in a different reality than us all. To be that entitled, to actually believe you can treat people that way... Just incomprehensible to most people

[Brummie]

Thank goodness that we are still able to see these interviews. For me personally, this man confirmed everything I thought about Andrew.

[playingbadgolfwell]

You can always judge a person's character by how they treat people they believe are "beneath" them (or even the fact that they believe people are "beneath" them in the first place.)

[happygirl]

Andrew deserves to live in obscurity, having offended most of the civilized world with no remorse on his part. Kudos to this police officer for speaking out.

[nevillemason]

A relative of my wife had the unenviable task of guiding Prince Andrew a few years back around some official event in a foreign country. They went up in a lift which briefly broke down between floors so they couldn't get out. It was fixed after only a few minutes. He was absolutely furious with rage. When they emerged from the lift and approached the first door he kicked it open with all his force. A total arse.

[TStyle]

I had the immense displeasure of meeting Prince Andrew in 2006, when he came to my workplace to open our new offices. I was part of the welcome party. We were told if anyone took pictures on their camera phones (which were still quite new then - this was the year before iPhones) his security team would seize and confiscate the phones. When he arrived he was brusque, rude and dismissive. He seemed annoyed to be there and couldn’t get away fast enough. He was so bad that the MD of the company had to send out an email afterwards practically apologising on his behalf. Dreadful person.

[stephanguitar]

I used to go sailing with an ex navy officer who told me that other officers really didn’t want to be in same space as him. Other ranks were terrified of his obnoxious temper.

[jasonsupra]

Hats off for telling the honest side of Andrew, self indulged and obnoxious individual

[kirajo]

The way in which a person treats others is a direct reflection on their own character. Being disrespectful and arrogant with people trying to do their job is disgusting behavior.

[Robotk]

I was part of the Royal Guard at Balmoral in the late 90s for 3 months. My job at the time was to assist with the Ghillies when they would take guests out to stalk and shoot Stags during the hunting season. We would meet them after they completed the hunt with large working horses & the dead Stag would be strapped onto the back on the horses saddle and then driven back to the castle at the end of each day.

The Royals would invite guests to take part in the hunts and it was usually someone of some kind of importance or from a wealthy family. One day Prince Andrew turned up with a tall blonde haired female, apparently a low grade actor that was married to some Sheikh. He was acting like a complete idiot trying to be flirtatious, but sounding like a 13 year old schoolboy who fancied Madonna in the 90s. It was embarrassing to watch. Me & my work buddy at the time were walking behind them leading the horses & Prince Andrew seen a frog on the ground & turned round to the female guest and said "Oh don't go kissing that frog dear, we dont want anymore Prince's running around here" and started manically laughing at his own crude joke. Me and my buddy looked at each other and both wanted to burst out laughing, but had to contain ourselves because we would have probably been punished for taking the piss. In hindsight I wish I took the extra guard duty and laughed in his face.

Shortly after that Prince Andrew missed his shot and decided to cancel the hunt only like 2 hours in (its normally like an all day thing). He then said they (him and the blonde) were going to walk back via a lodge that sat on a loch. I basically just think he had no intention of taking that guest out shooting and was trying to get into her knickers. Guy is a total sex pest. I'm sure there's hundreds of stories out there about his deviant behaviour.

I seen him multiple times throughout that 3 months and he was just an obnoxious wanker. Most of the other royals were respectful of other people. Philip was a bit bizarre and would often hit his dog with his walking stick, which pissed me off. Charles was probably the nicest out of all of them. He would actually take over on our area as the Lead Ghillie (leading the hunt) & take his own guests out for the last 2 weeks of the season. At the end of each day he would bring a bottle of Whisky and the whole team of like 6 of us would sit and drink a dram of whisky in the middle of the mountains. He would sit and chat and ask us about our lives and stuff. At the end of the two weeks he gave each team member a blue leather wallet with his crest on it with 9 carot gold plated trimmings & some cash inside. Being a squadie at the time I obviously spent the cash going out on the piss that night, but I still have the wallet in its box.

[arthurtwoshedsjackson]

Best story I heard was whilst in the Met, working with someone who was in close protection with the Royals. Andrew drove upto the gate house at Windsor and was rude to the officers on the gate, as the gate wasn’t opened in good enough time for him. This got back to the Queen and she sent him back to apologise. When he got back someone said on the radio “Did your mummy send you back to say sorry”. Apparently he went ballistic, demanding to know who has made that comment😂😂😂

[carolegill]

Andrew was bailed out from further questioning by his Mother. He was very spoilt and smothered has being the blue eyed boy. Having favourites between children is a huge mistake

[annabanana]

So glad someone is speaking up about Andrew 👏 Andrew makes my skin crawl .
This man is a hero 👍👏👏

[faizanhuss]

“If you want to test a person’s character, give him power”. ~Abraham Lincoln

[Bunty]

I worked with an Officer who provided Close Protection to Andrew when he was away from home. He was hated by all the staff. He would constantly try and outwit staff at night time sneaking around the grounds until he was challenged at gunpoint trying to access the external gate. After his immediate trouser-fill he berated the staff to the stage that one Protection officer was literally going to rip his head off. That staff member was transferred the next day, unbeknown of who ordered it. An odious and self important individual who really should have every title and funding stripped from him with immediate effect. I hope he gets his just reward in Court but I really can't see this happening. As for being the Queens favourite, either she was using the self entitled practice of royals or he was that sort of hideous person who can instantly manipulate his warped personality to appear loving towards Mummy. Good on the Queen to a degree and finally Charles for getting rid of him from Public service.

[michaelelliott]

Andrew not my prince should be in jail together with other predators its a disgrace