Andrew Lownie Audiobooks

The House of York's fall, assembled from paperwork rather than tabloid noise, in Entitled

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Who is Andrew Lownie?

Andrew Lownie, born in 1961, is a British historian and author, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has made the royal family his particular territory, rarely to its comfort: his Traitor King examined the scandalous exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and the Duke’s links with the Nazis – hardly the stuff of souvenir tea towels.

His range runs beyond the royals too, taking in biographies of John Buchan and of the Soviet spy Guy Burgess. The common thread is a taste for subjects with secrets, and the patience to keep digging until the paperwork gives them up.

Andrew Lownie in audiobooks

This catalogue carries Entitled, Lownie’s account of the rise and fall of the House of York, centring on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein – one of the defining royal scandals of the age, handled by a historian rather than a headline-chaser. The distinction matters in audio: this is royal history built on research, and it unfolds through the steady accumulation of detail rather than tabloid shrieking.

For UK listeners the appeal is obvious. The story has run through British public life for years; here it is assembled properly, end to end, by a writer who specialises in what institutions would rather forget.