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Peter FitzSimons Columnist and author October 31, 2025 — 3.30pm

No one knows more about the shortcomings of Prince Andrew than Andrew Lownie, an English historian who wrote the recently released Entitled: the Rise and Fall of the House of York . I spoke to him a number of times this week.

Fitz : Mr Lownie, there have been so many appalling revelations about Andrew in the past couple of weeks, I thought it timely to go straight to the man whose book comprehensively documents his descent – you. Are you personally shocked by the latest revelations, or did you know them all anyway?

AL : I am not shocked. I had a lot of the material that has emerged but couldn’t put in my book for legal reasons, or I couldn’t properly double-sou

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