Russian organised crime links, affairs with rappers: The updated book about Andrew and Fergie is shocking

May 24, 2026 — 3:00am

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Last year the English historian Andrew Lownie, released the best-selling Entitled: the Rise and Fall of the House of York documenting the fall of the man once known as Prince Andrew. This week, as the King’s brother faces new police scrutiny, Lownie releases the updated paperback version with an additional 10,000 words of revelations.

Fitz: Andrew, thank you for your time again. As one author to another, let me say I get it. You’ve had a very successful hardback version of your book and for the paperback you need some fresh stuff to get the headlines again and sell even more. So, what have you got? What’s your fresh stuff, and why couldn’t you put it in the original hardback?

AL: I’ve got so much more information now because more people have been emboldened to come forward and tell their stories, and more people are prepared to go on the record.

Fitz: And the new stuff?

AL: Everything from Andrew’s alleged links with Russian organised crime and hate for brother Charles, to how one person was employed just to organise the tablets that Sarah Ferguson took; from Ferguson’s abuse of her charity “Sarah’s Trust” to make money for herself, to how the 30-something Andrew was once allowed alone into the dormitories of 13-year-old girls. The last part fits with his extraordinarily predatory behaviour over decades, including his alleged chat-up line, “What’s it like to have a royal cock rub up against your leg?” There’s also his alleged interest in Japanese rope bondage and how a valet was once ordered to fly to Asia to recover a teddy bear which Andrew had left behind.

Fitz: And yet, you were telling me these are not the things the British press has gone hardest after.

AL: No, there are two stories that the press have really picked up on: the first is the story of him kicking a dog at a Sandringham shooting weekend, right? The press interest on that has been extraordinary. When it comes to young girls allegedly being abused, no one gets too upset, but as soon as you kick a dog in Britain, everyone thinks that’s terrible.

Fitz: And the second thing?

AL: The second is Sarah Ferguson’s claimed “friends with benefits” relationship with P. Diddy Combs, the rapper. It has generated a great deal of interest, and I think that’s important because here is this woman presenting herself as a great mother and a champion of trafficked women, who is still bringing her 16-year-old daughters to yacht parties of a convicted sex offender.

Fitz: I read about the P. Diddy Combs thing with interest, and I was appropriately gobsmacked on a couple of levels, starting with what on earth they saw in each other? I get my rappers mixed up, but is he not notorious for pursuing rather younger women than Ferguson, who is now in her mid-60s?

AL: Yes, he had his eyes on the daughters, but he’s obsessed with the British royal family, and this was a sort of notch on the bedpost. And for Fergie, she likes black men ...

Fitz: Alrighty then ... I don’t expect you to reveal your source, and I accept that you’re not a tabloid trash writer, that you’re a........

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