He was so angry that he revved his Range Rover, swung into reverse, mounted the curb backwards and abandoned his vehicle on the pavement so that he could get as close as possible to the terminal without getting wet.
But it turned out the Prince, en route to Vietnam to promote British trade, had gone to the wrong door at the airport's new Terminal 5 on Friday evening.
Staff found the Prince's mistake hilarious - and were chuckling again when baggage handlers saw he was taking his own ironing board on the trip.
A Heathrow source said: "The Duke was pretty irate when he arrived. There's a huge canopy at the main door so VIPs can go into the terminal protected from the rain. But Andrew pitched up at the back entrance. After waiting for a someone to come out with a brolly, he got impatient. He was fuming, huffing and puffing and red in the face. It was hilarious.
"And the baggage handlers couldn't believe it. They see a few weird things in their work - but the Duke of York taking an ironing board on a trip? That's a first."
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