A biography titled Entitled appeared in the U.K., offering a joint portrait of Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson and becoming a No. 1 bestseller. The book compiles testimony from roughly 300 people contacted for the project, many of whom supplied allegations about Andrew's behavior in private and professional life. The portrait emphasizes a pronounced fall from public favor after a notorious interview and ties to Jeffrey Epstein, and it catalogs claims including staff dismissals for trivial reasons and allegations of large numbers of women being brought to his hotel suite during a trip to Thailand.
Could things get any worse for Prince Andrew, the late Queen Elizabeth's second son, whose infamous Newsnight interview in which he claimed to be unable to sweat and refused to renounce his association with the now-dead sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein saw him stripped of his royal duties and more or less shunned wholesale from public life? Apparently, yes. Last week, a new biography of the Duke of York called Entitled, by the historian and author Andrew Lownie, was released in the U.K. It's a joint portrait of Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, once the Duchess of York, and it's become a No. 1 bestseller here.
As Lownie puts it at the start of the book, in an understatement so huge as to be laughable, the Yorks would have "preferred this book not to have been written." No doubt. This is the kind of book you can write about a member of the royal family only after they have been thoroughly disgraced, and it is not usual that a member of the royal family has fallen so decisively. (Lownie previously wrote a book about Andrew's great-uncle Edward VII called Traitor King.) So that in itself makes Entitled an interesting document. When the jig is as entirely up as it is now for Andrew, how many people are willing to dish the dirt on a royal despite that not being the "done thing"? Plenty, it seems. Lownie reportedly approached about 3,000 people for this book, of whom he says only a tenth replied, but that is enough. And what these people-drawn from Andrew's love life, his professional life, his staff, and his sometime friends-have to say about him is damning beyond belief.
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