Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York
Andrew Lownie

Book Reviews

• "Makes Prince Harry’s Spare look positively restrained."
  Sunday Times
• "The most damning royal takedown since Spare paints Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson as venal, grifting and obsessed by sex."
  The Observer
• "This isn't just a royal biography. It's a study in reputational collapse and the danger of unchecked power inside Britain's most protected institution."
  The Standard
• "The most devastating royal biography ever written."
  Daily Mail
• "This searing biography of Prince Andrew crackles with scandals about sex and money on almost every page. The author's best-selling biographies have a habit of changing the reputation of famous figures… Although in the case of Entitled, he hasn't so much cemented Prince Andrew's reputation, as put it in concrete boots and thrown it in the river. It is hard to see how he might come back from this."
  BBC News
• "Devastating … this is more than just a hit job on the duke. By examining Andrew’s taxpayer-funded role as the UK’s “special representative” for trade and investment, the author takes aim at an “Establishment cover-up”."
  The Times
• "A jaw-dropping account of arrogance, financial incontinence, greed and, indeed, entitlement."
  Daily Express
• "Among the most lurid, marmalade-dropping outlandish books published about a senior royal."
  Sunday Times
• "Less a biographer than a mortician, he has delivered a 456-page obituary for the Duke and Duchess of York. It may also prove to be the first line of an obituary for the monarchy itself."
  New Statesman
• "...the latest devastating biography by Andrew Lownie, which – in any rational scheme of things – should surely drive the final nail into the woodwormed remnants of his reputation."
  The Independent
• "There can be no coming back from this for Andrew, no return to public life, no reinstatement of royal duties...Lownie doesn’t explicitly call for abolition of the monarchy anywhere in the book, but Entitled as a whole offers a pretty conclusive argument for it."
  Slate
• "I didn’t think there was much more to learn about Prince Andrew but  Andrew Lownie provides a  new rigorously reported revelation on every page. A riveting read."
  Tina Brown
• "Lownie’s book is the touchpaper for more revelations to come, and if the palace is implicated, even by oversight, it could be far more damaging than even the abdication of King Edward VIII 90 years ago next year."
  Australian Telegraph
• "A headline on every page."
  Tony Cavanaugh, film producer
• "A very good book...it is the stuff of which revolutions are made."
  AN Wilson
• "the latest devastating biography by Andrew Lownie, which – in any rational scheme of things – should surely drive the final nail into the woodwormed remnants of his reputation."
  Alan Rusbridger, The Independent
• "  Future dictionaries should simply have a picture of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor next to the words debauchery, corruption, sleaze and, most important, entitlement. The story of his cataclysmic fall from grace has dominated headlines for the past year, mostly thanks to Andrew Lownie’s brilliant book. It is the culmination of four years of research into the affairs of the King’s brother and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, showcasing their amorality. Undoubtedly the most important book of the last year, if not the century. "
  Mail on Sunday
• "At present, it's hard to think of a more consequential British writer than Lownie."
  Airmail
• "Entitled opened the floodgates for revelations about Andrew."
  Express
• "I have just read Andrew Lownie’s devastating book, Entitled: The Rise and Fall of The House of York, and it left me with a feeling of retching disgust."
  Allison Pearson, Daily Telegraph
• "Andrew Lownie, whose outstanding reporting on the former Prince’s doings has done much to put him under the spotlight."
  Sam Leith, Spectator
• "Indispensable."
  New Yorker
• "impeccably researched biography."
  Kate Maltby, The I paper
• "Andrew Lownie’s best-selling biography of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Fergie, Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York (William Collins), has to be top of my books of 2025. As a biographer, I have tremendous admiration for what Andrew Lownie does. His meticulous research and concise style courageously communicates a powerful message. The shocking details about the Yorks’ relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and their lavish lifestyles is nauseatingly unforgettable. Lownie is one of those rare historians who changes history as well as records it.” "
  Rachel Trethewy , Express Books of Year
• "Reading this book is rather like working your way through a box of Quality Street chocolates — you can’t resist gobbling down the next mouth-watering morsel, but you end up feeling thoroughly sick. "
  Adrian Wooldridge’s top five books of 2025 in Bloomberg
• "Entitled” is brilliantly researched and written. Congratulations. Such an eye-opener!"
  Helen Fry
• "a cracking page-turner that surely has a claim to the title of book of the year for its seismic impact."
  Financial Times, Books of the Year