Testimony from 2012 has emerged suggesting that the Queen ‘does not sweat’ – as the fallout from her son Prince Andrew’s car crash television appearance continues.
In an interview with Newsnight on Saturday – slated as ‘nuclear explosion level bad’ – The Duke of York claimed he was previously unable to perspire.
The suggestion has since been rebuffed by various medical experts, including Dr Hilary Jones, who declared himself ‘sceptical at best’.
Yet newly-unearthed testimony suggests Prince Andrew’s apparent lack of sweating could run in the family.
In 2012, the Queen’s dress designer, Stewart Parvin, told the Sunday Times that the monarch does not perspire.
He added: ‘I’m always hot, the Queen is very lucky, she doesn’t crease her clothes.
‘The clothes are always impeccable. But it is also that she doesn’t glow. If you are a cold person your clothes don’t crease.’
The Times has also reported that courtiers were stunned at the young Queen’s ability to remain fresh during the opening of the Ceylonese Parliament (in modern-day Sri Lanka).
Some 60 years later, when temperatures topped 37C on a visit to Ground Zero, New York, she again appeared not to sweat.
The Duke was responding to an allegation that he had sex with Virginia Roberts (now Giuffre), when she was 17 – as questions around his relationship with disgraced billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein continued.
He said the claim could not be true because of a ‘peculiar medical condition which is that I don’t sweat or I didn’t sweat at the time.’
The Duke did not suggest that the condition was hereditary – but because of a war time incident.
He continued: ‘I had suffered what I would describe as an overdose of adrenaline in the Falklands War when I was shot at and I simply… it was almost impossible for me to sweat.’
The interview with Emily Maitlis has caused shock waves nationwide, as the Prince also claimed he had been in a ‘Pizza Express in Woking’ at the time of the alleged meeting.
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