Prince Andrew would reportedly get his royal protection officers to run and retrieve his stray golf balls during swing practise at the Palace, resurfaced reports say.

A palace insider claimed the Duke of York would get members of the Royal police squad to act as ball boys while he perfected his stroke in the gardens of Buckingham Palace.

An officer on duty would have to stand around 100 yards from the Prince and run to retrieve the balls after he struck them.

The lavish and vast private garden of Buckingham Palace is the perfect place for the Queen's favourite son to practise his swing.

A source told the Mail Online back in 2008: "Andrew would occasionally come into the gardens carrying his clubs and hit a few balls making his close protection officer collect them for him."

The former royal protection officer Paul Page has spoken about his time working with the Duke.

Page, who acted as Andrew's protection officer for six years from 1998, spoke to the Mirror in 2019 and claimed the prince was "abusive and rude towards us as police officers".

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He also said that he reportedly saw the prince sweating while enjoying a game of golf in Buckingham Palace, despite the Duke's strong proclamations in the infamous Newsnight interview that he was unable to sweat.

The stripping of several of his golfing patronages earlier this month must have been a difficult pill to swallow.

There were 24 golf-related affiliations on the Royal Family's website linked to Prince Andrew before the catastrophic fall-out from his friendships with Jeffrey Epstein and his now-jailed pal Ghislaine Maxwell.

The Queen appears to have had all of these removed along with her son's military titles.

Prince Andrew's representatives have been approached for comment.

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