An explosive new royal book delving into the life of Prince Andrew and his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson is set to hit the shelves, and it contains some shocking allegations
A shocking new royal book about Prince Andrew is set to be released – and it contains some explosive allegations about the disgraced Duke.
From being an alleged “serial sex addict” to leaving Prince William furious over comments about Princess Kate, the claims are extensive.
The new book, ‘Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the Yorks’ by Andrew Lownie, gives rare insight into the lives of both Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, making it the first joint biography of the former couple, who still live together and are close friends.
The disgraced Duke stepped down from royal duties in 2019 after a car crash BBC Newsnight interview about his connection to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Since then, he’s been embroiled in further scandals – including his links to an alleged Chinese spy – and rarely makes public appearances with the royals.
But it seems that this latest royal book, seen by The Mirror, means Andrew’s headaches are far from over.
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‘Randy Andy’ nickname
Prince Andrew was dubbed ‘Randy Andy’ in the press for many years before his public disgrace, but the author claims that he got the infamous nickname much earlier.
It was during his time at Gordonstoun School, in the north of Scotland – where King Charles also spent his schooldays – that Andrew was apparently first given this dubious nickname.
According to the book, even as a teenager, Andrew had no trouble picking up girlfriends and already had a lot of sexual experience, and the nickname has followed him ever since.
Andrew’s many lovers
The author alleges that Prince Andrew has, over the course of his life, slept with over 1,000 women.
Lownie claims that the Duke has slept with adult film stars, political figures, as well as nightclub staff and bartenders.
One young woman, a 20-year-old model, shared, “He wanted me to engage in kinky sexual activity. He had no boundaries. He told me he had an open marriage arrangement with his wife.”
“After returning to London, I never heard from him again. I felt like he used me for a few days, so he could live his wildest fantasies,” the book noted.
Thailand hotel shock
According to the book, when Andrew was sent to Thailand to represent the crown at the King of Thailand’s Diamond Jubilee in 2006, he demanded that more than 40 women be sent to his hotel room.
Lownie quotes a witness who claims: “Often, as soon as one left, another would arrive.” Some days, more than 10 women are claimed to have gone to his hotel room, leaving staff in shock.
These claims have been echoed by royal expert Tom Sykes at the Daily Beast, who wrote that his own sources made the same claims, and alleged that the rumours had long circulated about the trip.
“My sources have confirmed Lownie’s account of Andrew’s industrial-scale sexual consumption, carried out under the auspices of royal diplomacy with the full apparatus of the British state behind him,” said Sykes.
He added that one source who spoke to him even claimed that Andrew saw “access to a revolving door of female bodies as part of the perks of office” and that he and another unnamed dignitary would send “girls to each other via luxury car services in a horrific power play masquerading as a twisted mark of respect.”
Extensive affairs
Prince Andrew is alleged to have had “more than a dozen affairs” in just the first 12 months of his marriage to Sarah Ferguson, his former driver told the author – but it wasn’t long until Fergie played away too.
In 1989, she struck up a romance with American Steve Wyatt, and later, when he returned to the US to make a name for himself, she got involved with his pal John Bryan.
Photos of the pair frollicking in the sunshine while on holiday made the front pages of the Daily Mirror in 1992, but the book claims that Andrew made his peace with his wife’s other lovers.
The Duke of York would allegedly enjoy his dinner in his study, while she ate with her other romantic interests in another room.
However, Fergie never quite came to terms with Andrew’s infidelity, the book claims. One insider revealed, “It used to be a bit of a joke that whenever Andrew showed too close an interest in a girl, the Queen promptly issued an invitation to Fergie for afternoon tea at Windsor,” in the name of making her daughter-in-law feel better about what was going on.
Sarah and Andrew stopped sharing a physical relationship in the early 1990s, the book alleges, but in all other respects, continued to be close.
‘Pathetic move’
For most of his life, Andrew has attracted women with relative ease, a friend is reported to have told Lownie. He is alleged by sources to have rarely chased women, expecting them to either come his way, or be ‘presented’ to him instead.
One woman who was the target of his interest told the author that his flirting tactics left a lot to be desired. “He’s about as subtle as a hand grenade,” she claimed. “His favourite trick is to rub your knee under the table. It’s pathetic.”
Loner lifestyle
Andrew is, despite being relaxed on the surface, actually something of a loner, the book claims – and this trait was present long before he was shunned from public life.
He is alleged to have told a pal in the 1980s, “I am a loner – I really am. Yet when I say that, no one believes me.”
Others who knew him as a young man told the author that he was difficult to foster a personal relationship with. The book quotes a colleague from the Navy, who says he was something of a loner, but that he would use his royal mask to cover up the fact that he was really shy.
Bizarre pranks
Andrew has a penchant for strange pranks, the book claims – especially ones that humiliate whoever is on the receiving end.
The author writes that the Duke would force party guests to close their eyes with outstretched hands, before getting them to clap – unbeknownst to them that there was an open tube of mustard in their hands, leaving them with the condiment over their faces.
He is also alleged to have pushed a dinner companion’s face into their meal, and unzipped a woman’s dress the whole way down during a society event.
William and Harry’s ‘real feelings’ toward Andrew
Neither Prince William nor Prince Harry is particularly fond of their errant uncle, the book claims. William is alleged to use less than complimentary names for Prince Andrew, as is his younger brother, with the future King also not keen on Sarah Ferguson.
The Prince of Wales is claimed to be part of a push to get the former couple to move out of their mansion, Royal Lodge, and some of his animosity towards Andrew is said to be borne from occasions his uncle was rude about Princess Kate.
A source told the author that William, “can’t wait for the day when his father throws them both out. If Charles doesn’t, I guarantee you the first thing William does when he eventually becomes king is to get them evicted.”
Fergie’s extravagant demands
Sarah Ferguson, known as Fergie, spent wildly on staff, holidays, parties and flowers, with no regard on settling bills during her marriage to Prince Andrew, it is alleged.
The Duchess, who was married to the disgraced Duke of York for a decade between 1986 and 1996, was bailed out on “several occasions” according to renowned historian Andrew Lownie, including one payment of £500,000 in April 1994 when the bank Coutts “demanded £500,000 within 14 days”.
The Duchess is alleged to have spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on royal staff, renting foreign villas and demanding security for her two daughters, Eugenie and Beatrice.
Lownie writes: “The bubbly young redhead was initially seen as a breath of fresh air when she married him in 1986, but her exploitation of her royal status to make money has seen her join her ex-husband as a hugely diminished figure.”
Despite a string of failed business ventures, often trading on her royal connections, including putting her name to a chain of retirement homes that went bankrupt, Ferguson reportedly had debts in excess of £3.7 million by 1994.
Lownie states “she needed bank approval to pay even modest cheques. But even then, according to a member of her staff, she always believed there would be ‘a deal around the corner’ that would solve all her problems”.
Buckingham Palace declined to comment.
‘Entitled’ by Andrew Lownie (William Collins, £22), to be published August 14.
