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The royal family has had their fair share of scandalous romances , and a 2025 book detailing Prince Andrew's fall from grace inadvertently also placed the spotlight on the story of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip's relationship . In " Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York ," Andrew Lownie claims Philip had an affair with Andrew's ex-wife's mother. He didn't allege it to be so, he stated it as a fact. He casually dropped the bomb at the start of the book while detailing Andrew's wedding to Sarah Ferguson, penning, "The father of the groom and mother of the bride — lovers 20 years earlier — sat in the third carriage waving to the crowds ... " Er, what?!

Said mother of the bride was Susan Barrantes, and she and P

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