Privilege, Scandal and the Decline of the Yorks
Renowned biographer Andrew Lownie mines four years of research to expose the wild lives, entangled finances and fall from grace of the House of York - centred on Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson in a story of entitlement and collapse.
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Privilege, Scandal and the Decline of the Yorks
Renowned biographer Andrew Lownie mines four years of research to expose the wild lives, entangled finances and fall from grace of the House of York - centred on Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson in a story of entitlement and collapse.
- Book Synopsis
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The first joint biography of the Duke and Duchess of York and the first full biography of either of them, by renowned royal biographer and literary agent, Andrew Lownie.
Drawing on four years of research, numerous FOI requests and interviews with over a hundred people who have never spoken before, the book 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. Still living in the same house, they claim to be “the happiest divorced couple in the world”.
The book investigates the reality of their relationship and their love lives. It charts Andrew’s record in the Falklands, his business activities and reveals details of how the couple have been able financially to sustain their extravagant lifestyles. It also recounts the full story of the Yorks’ 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 the attention her ‘royal’ status brought. Rigorous and packed full of revelations, this is eye-watering biography at its best.
- About The Author
- 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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- ISBN
- 9780008775469
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- William Collins, (14 August 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 448
- Weight
- 650 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 153 x 38 mm
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