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00:00 Valentine Lowe's new book Courtiers. The hidden power behind the crown is spilling even more
00:05 fancy royalty, this time, about Prince William being all kinds of upset by the firing of
00:10 private secretary Sir Christopher Guyt back in 2017.
00:21 In other words, settle in for some vintage royal drama. According to Lowe's book, via
00:26 the Telegraph, Guyt, aka the Queen's private secretary and a mentor to Prince William,
00:32 was ousted amid a falling out between then-Prince Charles and Prince Andrew.
00:43 William was furious, a source said. He felt Christopher had worked to modernize the institution
00:48 and bring it closer together. He was concerned about the way it had been handled, and how
00:59 Christopher had been treated.
01:04 So, what happened? Apparently Guyt was fired after 10 years following differences of opinion
01:13 on how to handle the transition of power between Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles.
01:22 Plus, Prince Andrew wasn't into Guyt supporting Charles' desire to have a slimmed-down monarchy
01:30 on the balcony during the Diamond Jubilee in 2012, felt it was "like a dagger to his
01:35 heart" and hasn't got over it.
01:41 Uh.k. Then in 2014, Charles wasn't here for Guyt trying to have the royals in one
01:49 streamlined communications operation, and neither Andrew nor Charles were on board with
01:54 his attempt to merge royal households in 2017.
02:05 The brothers actually both approached the Queen and told her "Guyt has got to go",
02:09 and he was said to be "very bruised" by the whole thing.
02:16 Meanwhile, William was so pissed that he went to the Lord Chamberlain to complain, with
02:23 the source saying, "He was really angry about it, not necessarily because it was the wrong
02:33 decision. He just thought it was handled very unkindly for a man who was a pillar of the
02:39 institution of the monarchy, but had also played an incredibly important role when the
02:44 coalition government had been formed."
02:46 Truly, the amount of drama in this family is beyond.
02:55 [END]