Bear necessities: Prince Andrew gets angry if teddy bear collection isn’t perfectly placed on his bed, author claims

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The Sun that she was responsible for laying out Andrew’s soft toys in order of size every morning in the mid-‘90s. The royal, who was reportedly Queen Elizabeth II’s favorite son, would have been in his mid-30s.

She claimed to the outlet that he had 72 teddy bears at the time.“As soon as I got the job, I was told about the teddies, and it was drilled into me how he wanted them,” Briggs claimed to the outlet. “I even had a day’s training.

It was so peculiar. After all, he was a grown man who had served in the Falklands. Each had to be carefully positioned. They were old-fashioned teddy bears – the Steiff ones – and nearly all of them had sailor suits on and hats.”“It took me half an hour to arrange them,” Briggs claimed. “Then, at bedtime, I had to take all the teddies off and arrange them around the room.

They each had a set place. We had to stack the smaller ones in an unused fireplace, again in size order, to make them look pretty.