A royal expert has claimed the stripping of the King’s brother’s titles has led to many more people opening up on their experiences with the disgraced royal.
The tide has turned on Andrew Mountbatten Windsor since his brother stripped him of his titles, a royal expert has claimed. The shamed royal has become a figure of derision across the nation in recent weeks and months.
His relationship with late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein has been a point of fury for many over the years, but after King Charles III removed Andrew’s titles, the “floodgates have opened”.
That’s according to the author of a damning biography of the former Duke of York and his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson. Andrew Lownie’s book, Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, sent shockwaves around royal circles earlier this year.
And the author has plans for another bombshell book because he claims he’s now got “so much new material” from more and more people coming forward with stories about the disgraced Windsor.
Lownie believes the dramatic loss of Andrew’s honours and titles has given people the nudge to no longer hold their tongue about their experiences with the King’s brother, The Mirror reports.
Speaking exclusively to Reach PLC, the biographer said: “I’m hearing from protection officers, diplomats, people in the Navy. I’m getting two or three people a day.”
The sheer volume of new tales has turned Lownie’s attention to a follow-up to his cutting exposé. He said: “I also have plans to do a sequel called Untitled … I’ve just got so much new material from people coming forward.”
Lownie claimed that people have realised they want to be “on the right side of history”, adding: “A lot of people who were off the record for going on the record for the paperback – it’s suddenly opened the floodgates.”
The royal expert added: “I was giving a talk at the Bridport festival on Friday [November 7] and two people in the audience piped up. One was a nanny of Andrew’s in the 1960s, and another was an ambassador from Kazakhstan. Really good people are coming forward and adding to the stories.”
Many of the people that Lownie spoke with told similar stories of an entitled man who believed he could do whatever he wanted. He continued: “Whether it was avoiding the roll-call at Gordonstoun, or not doing things he was meant to do in the Navy, he doesn’t feel that the rules have ever applied to him.”
Lownie believes 65-year-old Andrew “succumbed to all the forbidden fruits” because he lived a charmed life and “nobody warned him”. He added: “Now he’s paying the price.”
The former Duke appears set to move to the King’s private Sandringham estate in Norfolk, but Lownie doesn’t think that’ll be enough to protect Andrew from more scandal.
The biographer said: “I personally don’t think that he’s going to end up in Sandringham. I think that charges will be brought against him and he will flee to the Middle East or somewhere, probably like King Juan Carlos. But that’s only me speculating, of course.”
Reports have suggested Andrew could move to the United Arab Emirates, with his friend Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan offering him a huge palace as an escape from the scandal at home.
Lownie said: “I suspect that it would suit everyone’s purposes if Andrew did disappear there, away from public view, and the story got shut down.”