It is the most scandalous thing I think I’ve ever read. Yeah. Well, the story is beginning to come out, you know, and I think it’s going to get worse, even worse. There’s still a lot more to come out. You know, this this sort of predatory behavior really towards women is is fascinating.
And this is a story of him basically going onto a British Airways flight, being greeted by the air hostess, uh, and if she put out her hand, he took it, swung around, and so he was basically sort of grinding into her behind, and then practiced his golf swing with her with a woman he had never met before.
I mean, his chat up line when he was dancing with girls was to say, “What’s it like to have a royal against your thigh?” Oh my god. You should try that. Andrew had a few dogs, but he didn’t treat um his dog very well at all. Yes. This is an extraordinary story which I got from a close member of the royal family who had witnessed this on one of Andrew’s regular shooting weekends at Sandringham.
And the the dog, uh, black Labrador, I think called Bendrix, uh, basically snatched a sausage roll. Uh, and Andrew the dog in the head. Everyone was kind of all shocked. Prince Philip was there, Princess Anne also. And um nothing was said and done. So the guests reprimanded Andrew and said that’s not the way to treat an animal.
33,000 emails sitting in a Buckingham Palace office for 5 years. According to historian Andrew Lowey, those emails allegedly laid out what the king’s brother had been doing while flying around the world as a royal trade envoy. And according to Lai, the palace did not act on them.
They were filed away, left untouched, allowed to sit there while the years passed. Now, before anyone dismisses this as another author chasing a headline, hold on. This is not some anonymous insider whispering down a phone line. Lowi is the man behind Entitled, the number one bestseller that helped push the conversation around Andrew’s titles, his HRS style, and the words prince and juke of York into the center of public debate.
Yeah. Oh, well, I think several bombshells. I mean, one is that he’s been investigated for being inappropriate with a waitress at Ascat 20 years ago. There’s stories coming out now that 33,000 emails were presented to the palace in 2020 highlighting his bad behavior abroad as a as a envoy.
This is material that was actually leaked from one of his business associates, Jonathan Roland, who was on these trips with him. And this February, on his 66th birthday, the king’s own brother was arrested, then later released without charge. He denies every allegation completely. So, here is the question Lai keeps circling back to, the one that has half of Britain leaning closer to the radio.
If there was truly nothing to hide, why were 33,000 emails by Lown’s own count sitting inside a palace office for five long years? What’s so shocking is this stuff has been there for 6 years. There’s no sense that that anything’s happened. I mean, nothing they didn’t go to the police with this material. They didn’t discipline Andrew.
It’s just part of, I’m afraid, a huge cover up. That is the thread we are pulling today. Where did those emails come from? What does Lowry claim is inside them? And why is he so certain, so stubbornly certain that the king’s brother will never see the inside of a British courtroom? settle in because this story goes deep.
But first, let’s be clear about who Andrew Lowey is because that matters. He is not a gossip columnist throwing mud for clicks. He is a historian, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Cambridge educated biographer, and a man who spent years fighting the British government through the courts to access the Mount Batten papers.
This is someone who reads the footnotes, someone who follows the documents, someone who keeps the receipts. So when a presenter suggested his book was just salacious titlett, Lowi did not flinch. He stood by the work. And that is exactly why this story has become so difficult for the palace to ignore. And I think the thing that people have always praised me for is meticulous research.
Everything in in this book is even double sourced. I mean, every statement is backed up. I wouldn’t be able to get it through the lawyers. And I think that’s why it’s been taken seriously. And here is the detail that should make people sit up. Andrew himself, a man who has used lawyers before and understands exactly how a liel claim works, has not sued over the core claims in Lowry’s book.
Not over the emails, not over the money, not over the main allegations that have kept this story alive. Think about that for a second. One of the most watched fallen royals in modern history has been accused in print of extremely serious things. And his public response, at least legally, has been silence. Lowi has noticed, lawyers have noticed, and by now plenty of the audience has.
This is a moment where they can kind of grow up and be part of the 21st century. But to to to somehow excuse this behavior by his silence, I don’t think it’s going to wash any longer. And remember, the public had already watched Andrew try to explain himself once, and it did not go well.
In that now infamous 2019 television interview, he gave the Pizza Express in woking explanation involving his daughter and also spoke about a medical condition that he said meant he could not sweat. The country watched, listened, and quietly made up its mind. So when Lowi arrived years later with documents instead of awkward excuses, he was pushing on a door that was already halfway open.
I had access to paper cuts and this story has been going on. I mean, Andrew has been a menace since the 1980s. We’ve forgotten that. Uh and I think this is, you know, the journalism, you know, literally is is fish and chips tomorrow and everyone forgets and moves on. I don’t think we can really I mean all my books are about how there’s a curated narrative that’s shaped by rich and powerful people and the role of the the writer the journalist historian is to try and dig into that and just try and create uh what is true rather than what is myth.
Now to be fair the book has not been flawless and we are not going to pretend otherwise. A passage involving Melania Trump was pulled. The publisher apologized, copies were recalled. Prince Harry’s camp also denied a claim involving an alleged row with Andrew. Fair is fair. We named the wobbles where they exist.
But on the central spine of this story, the conduct, the money, the emails, and the alleged cover up, Lowi has stood his ground. And so far, nobody with serious standing has dragged him into a courtroom and forced him to take it all back. That tells you something. The question is, what exactly? Because the sentence that may have done more damage than any photograph is the one we are about to get into next.
He knows too many secrets and he may well begin to spill them in court. I mean they shut down the case when Paul Burl was was being tried in 2002. And I think you know I’m just speculating but the danger is he will say well you guys all knew about this for 25 years and did nothing.
Uh he can summon his brother to appear as a witness in the court and of course his brother the king can’t appear in his own court. So, I’m sure Gary Bloxom, who’s his lawyer, who specializes in basically keeping his clients out of, will have found all sorts of ways of of avoiding this. Lowry argues that Andrew knows too many secrets, and that, he says, is the real reason the establishment is so determined to keep this whole matter out of a British courtroom.
Because the moment a man like that is placed under oath, the moment a barristister starts asking questions in public, there is always the chance he starts answering them. And according to Lai, that is the nightmare scenario. Lowey tells one story that captures it perfectly. Whenever Andrew was cornered, whenever someone inside the institution allegedly tried to pull him back into line, he had one move, one warning, one line.
We all think back to the Burl case and the queen intervened at the last minute. the the story that he’ taken stuff that mmentotos artifacts from from the late Diana, Princess of Wales. And just before it came to court, cuz of course at that point the queen is in charge of all the courts and can’t be called as a witness.
She said, “No, we were aware of this and it was dropped.” Surely we all know this legally. If it ever got to court or near court, Andrew would just say, “I told my brother and I told the late queen.” And the whole thing falls down on its backside. And if that is true, then the whole thing, in Lown’s words, falls down on its backside. Because if the family knew, if the institution knew, if senior people had some idea of what was going on and still let it continue, then this stops being the story of one disgraced man.
It becomes the story of an institution that may have looked the other way. Now, we need to be careful here, and so should everyone watching. These are Lown’s claims and his interpretation of events. The late Queen is not here to answer them, and we are not going to put words in her mouth.
Andrew denies wrongdoing and nothing has been proven against him in any criminal court. But you can understand why this lands so hard with the public. Lown’s whole argument is that the problem was never just one bad apple in the barrel. What I realized doing the book is that that actually it’s sort of endemic corruption in the institution.
It’s not just two bad apples. They, you know, these people are protected. The stories are suppressed. there’s a very symbiotic relationship often with with particularly the you know the royal rotor uh in terms of gain of access patronage pressure and it’s something is rotten in the state of Denmark as Hamlet might have said borrowing from Hamlet he suggests that something is rotten in the state of Denmark and in his view the smell is drifting closer and closer to the throne itself so how does a man end up allegedly sitting on 33,000 emails worth
of insurance to understand that Li says, “You have to follow the money.” And again and again, the trail points east. Back in 2007, Andrew sold his marital home, Sunning Hill Park, a wedding gift from the late queen. The property was reportedly sat on the market for 5 years with no buyer.
Then came a buyer from Kazakhstan, the son-in-law of that country’s then president, who paid £15 million. That was roughly £3 million over the asking price for a house nobody else seemed to want. And then after all that, the place was knocked to the ground. That part is not just Li’s theory. That is part of the public record.
And honestly, the sheer brass neck of it is hard to ignore. Andrew’s sort of privileged existence. Oh, let’s give him this job as a trade envoy so he can go around the world abusing it, lining his own pockets. Uh, that was all down to the queen. You know, we all love the queen, magnificent, remarkable woman. But boy oh boy, was this oath, this fool, this pompous, awful man, her second son, that was her Achilles heel.
He was her Achilles heel. She was wrong and weak about him. Then there is the matter the high court actually looked at a Turkish banker and a £750,000 payment rooted to Andrew that was described in court papers. Andrew paid the money back and the court papers stated there was no suggestion of wrongdoing on his part.
So that specific matter is settled. But Li’s wider point is not about one payment alone. His argument is about the pattern. He says Andrew was made a roving trade envoy and then used that role to open doors for himself. And here is the line that makes people at the kitchen table put their tea down.
when Fergie was caught selling access to him on film for half a million pounds that he he actually continued as a trade end for her for another year after that and you know every time he was named in the Epstein revelations she’d give him another honor make him a vice admiral or give him the night of night of something or other and according to Lowi it was never just Andrew the whole house of York has been buckling under the same weight within days the charities began stepping back a children’s cancer trust she had supported for decades a hospice
One after another, organizations cut ties. Honestly, you could not make it up. Then there is Pitch of Palace, Andrew’s pet project for young entrepreneurs. Lai characterizes it not as a simple royal goodwill project, but as a private company that stood to take a cut from the firms it helped put on stage.
And that is where the story gets even more uncomfortable. Because if the royal title opened the door and private interests stood behind it, then people are going to ask the obvious question. Was this public service or was it access dressed up as duty? This the case, for example, of him taking a 5 million pound commission for introducing a a Greek water company in Kazakhstan.
You know, nothing to do with promoting uh British trade. And I talked to countless diplomats who said, you know, had a whole list of people he wanted to see who we felt were not appropriate for him to see. He he did his business out of the embassy, didn’t stay at the residence because this allowed him to set up his separate meetings.
One business partner has flatly denied that kind of arrangement and we need to put that on the table, too. Is that proof of anything? No. A lot of this is Lown’s interpretation and he insists his work is sourced. But when you sit with the pattern long enough, the money, the access, the titles, the doors opening again and again, you begin to understand why 33,000 emails might make a palace go very, very quiet.
Because if a family appears to treat closeness to the throne like a line of credit, then every document matters, every message matters, every connection becomes one more thread that someone may eventually pull. And then came the morning the silence broke. February 19th, 2026, Andrew’s 66th birthday. Instead of a quiet palace message, he got a knock at the door from Tempame’s Valley Police.
According to reports, he was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, making him the first senior royal arrested in modern British history. Just sit with that for a moment. held for around 11 hours, then released under investigation but not charged. The the narrative is being created that he wasn’t a paid employee, he wasn’t an official, he won’t get a fair trial, very hard to make these these things stick, etc.
And I think there there’s an obvious case here of a breach of the official secrets act. He shared confidential information with another party who was not supposed to have it. I mean, it seems to be clear-cut. So, what triggered it? According to reports, a trove of files released by American authorities appeared to show that Andrew, during his time as a trade envoy, had forwarded reports from official overseas visits closer to home, former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the man in Downing Street during Andrew’s trade envoy years, confirmed he had
handed a memorandum to several British police forces. So, this stopped looking like a tabloid campaign a long time ago. This is now a paper trail with government fingerprints on the cover sheet. And the king did not hide behind the palace walls. His response was only four words. The law must take its course.
That sentence may sound simple, but in royal terms, it lands like thunder. There is a two-tier system. And I think what I’m finding is the king is saying on one hand, let law take its course and we will cooperate. And on the other, I’m hearing of police protection officers being sent letters reminding of them of their obligations of confidentiality.
So this is all window dressing. It’s performative. It’s pretending that they’re doing something. But of course, they’re just trying to shut the story down. Now, this is where the story gets heavier and where Lown’s prediction starts to feel uncomfortably sharp. In May, 3 months after that birthday arrest, police confirmed the investigation had widened.
It was no longer only about the emails. They were also looking at claims involving fraud and corruption and they issued a public appeal for witnesses. They said they were working through a great deal of material and that detail matters because this is not some quick headline that disappears by the weekend. This is a file that appears to keep growing.
And for anyone wondering what misconduct in public office actually means, it is an old common law offense. On paper, the maximum sentence can be life imprisonment. That is not drama for the camera. That is the law. And that is exactly why every word, every document, and every claim matters. It is also why Andrew’s lawyers would be expected to fight this with everything they have.
Released under investigation is not the same as being cleared. It simply means the file remains open. Lowi has spoken about the number of forces and agencies circling this story and in his view, the scale is enormous. These are very serious allegations and um we’ve now got, I think, nine police forces in Britain investigating him.
And I think there’s a good case for him to be tried in in America because many of these offenses, you know, were carried out on American soil. And through all of it, Andrew’s position has not shifted. He denies everything. He has not been charged with any crime. Keep both of those facts in mind because they both matter.
But this is the part that should make people pause. Whatever anyone thinks of Andrew personally, it is hard not to ask how it ever got this far. Look at how quickly the collapse came. In August, he was still his royal highness, a prince, the Duke of York. By autumn, the king had begun the formal process of stripping those styles and titles away.
By November, it was done on paper. He became plain Andrew Mountbatton Windsor. No prince, no Duke. A royal fall so severe you have to go back more than a century to find anything close to it. Then came the house Royal Lodge, his home for two decades, was surrendered. For years he had clung to that lease, a 30 room mansion he was reported to pay very little to occupy.
In the end he gave it up and in February he was moved out to Sandringham in the dark like a man being quietly taken off the board. With the king now reportedly covering the cost of his exile, Parliament is even looking at legislation connected to the Dukedom. And the polling is brutal.
By one measure, only 3% of the public had a positive view of him. 3% 9 and 10 wanted him gone. There should be a proper a proper complaints procedure. I mean, one of the reasons that they haven’t really investigated the complaints against Megan and Harry for their bullying was because they would then have to investigate Andrew, who was far worse.
But absolutely, there should be someone, whether it’s someone in the Lord Chamberlain’s office or someone in Parliament, let’s say in the cabinet office, who should be making a statement about this. And here is the part I keep coming back to. For years, this same institution found the time and energy to investigate complaints about Megan.
Looney himself has made this point and it stings. The bullying claims against Megan received an inquiry. Andrew, he argues, the man at the center of this 33,000 email question, did not face the same level of internal scrutiny for far too long. Make of that what you will. You do not have to like Megan to notice the double standard.
You just have to be paying attention. The institution protected its own right up until the cost of protecting him became higher than the cost of cutting him loose. That is not a fairy tale about a wicked prince. That is the story of an institution doing the maths. So we come back to where we started the emails, the arrest and Looney’s blunt forecast.
He does not believe Andrew will ever stand trial in Britain. And in Looney’s telling that has nothing to do with innocence. I think what’s also interesting is we’re now being pushed into the line of the traffic. Uh which kind of keeps the king out of it because clearly if you raise questions about financial misdemeanor in the royal family, there’s a danger that plastic bags or bits of money for cash for honors might be brought up.
So I think is the way they’re going to go. And I think Gordon Brown’s intervention was very helpful. But of course, he’s now been silenced now. He’s got a job in government. Looney plainly does not believe this is only about innocence or guilt. He thinks it’s about the spectacle. In his view, the establishment simply cannot afford to put a royal in a witness box under oath.
Because once someone has nothing left to lose and decades of secrets sitting behind them, the risk is not just what they are asked. The risk is what they might decide to answer. And that Looney argues is why the real danger may not come from Britain at all. If serious legal jeopardy ever arrives, he believes it is more likely to come from across the Atlantic from the Americans, where the palace has far less control over the door.
That is the open wound at the center of this whole saga. Andrew has been stripped of his titles, pushed out of the home he lived in for two decades, arrested on his own birthday. And yet, as it stands, he has not been charged with a single crime, and still denies wrongdoing. The question he now really has to go public on this this scandal is getting nearer and nearer to the crown.
Uh I think you’re absolutely right. The queen knew the queen was involved in the decisions to pay the hush money to Virginia Gifrey. So was Charles. when that story broke in the sun, there was a sort of half-hearted um sort of complaint by by the crown. So, I think this is really getting serious for them.
Uh they’re on the ropes. Looney says the scandal is creeping nearer and nearer to the crown. Whether he’s right or whether this is a biographer’s theory dressed up as prophecy, none of us can say for certain yet. The emails have not been published in full, the investigation continues. The public is left to draw its own conclusions.
And the man at the center of it all is now sitting in a cottage on the Sandringham estate, no longer a working royal figure, waiting to see whether the thread finally runs out or whether someone decides it is safer to let the whole thing lie. But Looney, for his part, is nowhere near finished. He has already released a fresh paperback of Entitled with a new chapter pointedly titled The Reckoning.
And with Virginia Dupre’s postumous memoir now on shelves as well, the documents and questions keep arriving faster than the palace can answer them. I am I’m very persistent. So there is a new book coming u called Untitled which takes the story even further and opens it up. Other members of the royal family were also involved with Epstein, but that’s when’s that coming out? When’s that coming out? Untitled.
Well, that takes that takes a few years, but um I’m picking up a lot of information now. The story is much much bigger than I think people realize. The man who says it was all sourced does not seem in any hurry to put down his pen. This is Legacy Leaks, where we follow the paper trail, name the source, and let you make up your own mind about what it all means.
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