Andrew Lownie – Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York

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‘The most devastating royal biography ever written’ – Daily Mail

Packed with extraordinary revelations, Entitled is the first joint biography of the now former Duke and Duchess, revealing how their lives are still deeply entwined. Drawing on four years’ research, numerous FOI requests and interviews with over 100 people who have never spoken before, Andrew Lownie traces the lives of the late Queen’s second son and his ex-wife, through their childhoods, courtship, marriage, divorce, careers and royal and charitable activities. It reveals new details of how the couple have been able to financially sustain their extravagant lifestyles, delving into ever-deepening links with Jeffrey Epstein. Chronicling their lives in parallel, the picture that emerges is of a spoilt prince unable to connect and a duchess pushed by her insecurities into a desperate need to maintain her ‘royal’ status.

ANDREW LOWNIE was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was President of the Union, before taking his master’s and doctorate at Edinburgh University. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he later returned to Cambridge as a visiting fellow at Churchill College. He has been a bookseller, publisher, journalist writing for The Times, Telegraph, Wall Street Journal, Spectator, Guardian and since 1988 has run his own literary agency.  He is President of the Biographers Club, sits on the board of Biographers International Organisation and is a Trustee of the Campaign for Freedom of Information. His books include the prize-winning Stalin’s Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess (2015) and the top ten Sunday Times bestsellers The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves (2019) and Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (2021).

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