In the years before her death, Queen Elizabeth II was deeply worried about her second son Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's future as his ties to predator Jeffrey Epstein fueled mounting scrutiny, an upcoming book reveals. In his new biography titled Queen Elizabeth II, author Hugo Vickers writes that the late monarch remained supportive of her son but was troubled by the long-term fallout surrounding the controversy. "Andrew's problems caused the queen considerable distress in the last years of her life.