‘Floodgates open’ for Andrew Mountbatten Windsor as former employees ‘come forward’

After Andrew Mountbatten Windsor’s shocking fall from grace, Andrew Lownie, whose book Entitled set the ball rolling, warns there are many more revelations to come

The author of a damning Andrew Mountbatten Windsor biography has warned that there are many more stories to come about the former prince.

Andrew Lownie sent shockwaves through the royal sphere earlier this year with his release of Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York and has continued to share a number of explosive allegations surrounding the disgraced royal.

And since the dramatic loss of Andrew’s honours and titles, the biographer claims many more people have been willing to come forward and tell their own stories of working with the disgraced royal. Speaking exclusively to the Reach PLC, he said: “I’m hearing from protection officers, diplomats, people in the Navy. I’m getting two or three people a day.”

He says that there have been so many new revelations that he’s not only working on a new, expanded edition of his bombshell exposé, but he now has enough material for a second volume. He explained: “I also have plans to do a sequel called Untitled … I’ve just got so much new material from people coming forward.”

Several of Andrew’s previously-anonymous stories are now stepping out into the light. “A lot of people who were off the record for going on the record for the paperback – it’s suddenly opened the floodgates,” Andrew claimed.

He added that people who might in the past have remained silent on the former Duke of York have now decided that they want to be “on the right side of history”.

Andrew 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.”

So many of the people that Lownie spoke to told the same story of a man who believed he was entitled to 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.”

While Andrew lived a charmed life, Lownie said he “succumbed to all the forbidden fruits” and wasted any potential he had: “No-one warned him, and now he’s paying the price.”

He predicts that Andrew’s internal exile in Norfolk won’t be enough to insulate him from further accusations to come.

“I personally don’t think that he’s going to end up in Sandringham,” Lownie said. “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.”

In October, Andrew reportedly received an offer to live in the United Arab Emirates in the wake of pressure to vacate the 30-room Royal Lodge.

Andrew, 65, is said to have been offered the use of a luxurious palace in Abu Dhabi by Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

The 1,500-square-metre palace has six air-conditioned bedrooms, an indoor gym and swimming pool, and is sited within a secure diplomatic area.

And Andrew believes that the former prince could safely remain in the Middle East for the rest of his days, saying: “I suspect that it would suit everyone’s purposes if Andrew did disappear there, away from public view, and the story got shut down.”

The biographer claims that, when his book was initially published, he was accused of “making up” some of the stories within it.

But now a number of his previously-anonymous sources have said that they’re willing to go public. He continued: “They’re senior people – heads of the Foreign Office, people like that.

“Once people see the weight of evidence from reputable sources,, I think that will change the story.”