Prince Andrew Exposed: Epstein, Trump, and an Assassination Plot — Shocking Revelations from His Biographer

Scandal seems to be the air Prince Andrew breathes—yet even for royal watchers, the astonishing revelations in Andrew Lownie’s new biography “The Rise and Fall of the House of York” are jaw-dropping. In a revealing interview, Lownie takes us inside the real story of Prince Andrew—a tale packed with secrets, alleged affairs, espionage, high society betrayal, and brushes with death.

The saga starts with shocking gossip that rippled through palace corridors: Did Prince Philip, the late Queen’s husband, have an affair with Sarah Ferguson’s mother? According to Lownie’s well-placed sources, it was an open secret among their social circles. The web of personal entanglements, privilege, and denial only grew from there.

Lownie’s interviews with those who knew Andrew as a boy at Gordonstoun painted a damning picture: arrogance, entitlement, envy, and laziness. Even as the young “spare” to the throne, Andrew was described as spoiled by the Queen, lacking boundaries or leadership skills, and often bullied others to get his way. While Princess Anne and Prince Edward found their own roles through public duty, Andrew seemed determined to define himself by status and privilege.

In the Navy, Andrew cut corners. Lownie uncovered evidence that he cheated his way through staff college and relied on friends and private secretaries to cover his inadequacies—a pattern that would haunt his later life. Yet, during the Falklands War, Andrew found focus: his superiors confirm he showed courage on dangerous decoy operations and search-and-rescue missions. If he was ever a competent leader, it was only when the stakes were clearest.

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Then came Sarah “Fergie” Ferguson—the whirlwind duchess whose troubled past, love of glamour, and compulsive emotional entanglements brought both delight and disaster to the royal house. Internal reports, rumors of drug use, and early marital infidelity didn’t deter a royal wedding, but the cracks soon spread for all to see. Fergie’s charisma, generosity, and self-destructive openness—her obsessions with celebrities, father figures, and wealthy benefactors—kept her in the eye of the press storm, culminating in the infamous “toegate” scandal and exile from the royal core.

Andrew’s reputation unraveled further as his alleged addiction to sex (with rumored conquests in the thousands) entwined with ever-seedier associations, especially with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Lownie reveals how Epstein, infamous for blackmail and depravity, ensnared Andrew with cocktails of parties, introductions, and women—some as young as Virginia Giuffre, who would later say she was effectively “ordered” from a catalog for powerful men. Lownie’s sources insist Andrew, like Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, became both a customer and a potential target for blackmail, with Epstein collecting compromising material for leverage.

Andrew’s private life, far from private, became a liability not just for himself but for the entire monarchy. His links with foreign spies—Chinese, Russian, Middle Eastern—put national security at risk. Lownie details how at least one Russian spy seduced Andrew, bugging his devices, and how governments around the world may still hold “kompromat” on the prince.

Even an audacious Argentine plot is detailed: plans to assassinate Andrew on the Caribbean island of Mustique after the Falklands War, along with IRA threats on the golf course, heightened the urgency around his security. And yet Andrew’s indifference to protocols repeatedly left doors open in more ways than one.

As his Newsnight interview in 2019 toppled what was left of his public standing—his denials, excuses, and the now-infamous Pizza Express alibi unraveling—Andrew’s friends and family closed ranks. Buckingham Palace, says Lownie, repeatedly tried to suppress stories, threatening broadcasters and leveraging royal access to keep journalists silent. Yet the truth seeped through: not only was Andrew’s own conduct indefensible, but so too were his post-royal business dealings and financial entanglements, including Fergie’s ongoing relationship with Epstein and acceptance of large sums of money.

What of Andrew now? Semi-exiled in Royal Lodge, shorn of public duties but still a Duke, a Vice-Admiral, a Garter Knight—he spends his days in the comfort of wealth, obsessed with planes, golf, and nurturing old entitlements. Regret? Lownie doubts it. “He generally feels he’s innocent…and entitled to everything he does.” The real loss, for Andrew, is status—not conscience.

Meanwhile, Fergie circles the royal family like a limpet, kept close not for her virtues but to avert the threat of tell-all betrayals—a pattern that palace insiders, Lownie claims, have learned to accept as the price of keeping the peace.

Is there a path back for Andrew? The biographer is unequivocal: “No. He’ll never do what’s required to seek forgiveness. For the palace, he’s now a cautionary tale—a man who took everything, learned nothing, and left the institution bruised but determined never to make the same mistake again.”

It’s a royal drama with all the intrigue of a Hollywood script—except, for once, every tangled thread is true.