Andrew Lownie | Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York
Sat 22 Nov 2025 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm
The House of York has seen its fair share of scandal. Still living in the same house, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson claim to be “the happiest divorced couple in the world”. But what don’t we know?
Join Andrew Lownie, whose eye-watering and rigorously researched biography of the now former Duke and Duchess reveals how their lives are still deeply entwined. Drawing on four years of investigation, freedom of information requests, and over a hundred new interviews, Lownie uncovers the reality behind the late Queen’s second son and his ex-wife: their courtship, marriage, divorce, and enduringly complex relationship.
Exploring Andrew’s role in the Falklands, his business dealings, the couple’s extravagant lifestyles, and their controversial links with Jeffrey Epstein, Lownie paints a shocking portrait of entitlement, insecurity, and the perils of unchecked privilege inside Britain’s most protected institution.
Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from one of our most fearless biographers as he examines reputational collapse and the human cost of power and scandal.
In conversation with Anna Whitelock.
Venue: Old Divinity School
Duration: 1 hour
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Author Biography
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).
Chair Biography
Professor Anna Whitelock is a historian, author and broadcaster. She is Professor of the History of Monarchy at City, University of London.
