I'm Looking Forward To Andrew Lownie's Coming Prince Philip Bio

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He mentioned this while writing the Andrew book but argued that it would be impossible due to lack of sources at this point. But since he has been able to get so much on Andrew, and more is coming out generally, hopefully he'll be able to do a good one.

I expect we will hear about affairs if any did happen, Susan Barrantes for one probably.

But at the same time, I think it'll probably be more like his Mountbatten book : a fair appraisal of Philip, not as negative as the Andrew book had to be (since it's much harder to say what Andrew contributed positively aside from his Falklands service)

i think he will dig into what Philip knew about Mountbatten's potential child abuse, though.
I also think it will ask whether Philip could have disciplined Andrew better. Charles' childhood has already been well covered ofc.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/24/andrew-mountbatten-windsor-biographer-andrew-lownie-entitled#:~:text=Lownie's%20office%2C%20in%20his%20home,accounts%20from%20confidants%20and%20clairvoyants.

Not a royalist but I’m looking forward to this. I think he was an interesting character.

Thank you. I do wonder about all the connections between Mountbatten, royalty, the security services and child abuse, and the cover ups.

I only wish it would have been released when he was alive. Awful man.

I'm looking forward to it too.

Far too much secrecy swirling around Phil not least how a prince who was almost penniless on marriage amassed a fortune large enough for his estate to chuck £3m in the family hat to buy the silence of a woman his son had never met.

I think Lownie will be fair with his Philip book.

I have read the Mountbatten book, it really is quite a read, heavy going in places but quite factual. The couple, in some ways, did a lot of good but my god the extravagence, their hedonism and their sexual lives were something else. At one point Edwina was running 17 lovers concurrently! The book was anything but salacious believe it or not. And yes, the sexual abuse and Louis's preferences for young boys was covered. Really quite disgusting. Both Edwina and Dickie were out and out liars, and they ruthlessly exploited their royal connections.
And then there is Andrew. Just the same.
Lownie took years and almost all his money uncovering all of this.

Lownie is not popular with royalists, just warning you OP!
(Sorry, this post is probably a bit of a derail !)

The Mountbatten book is one of the best I've read imo (I'm a history student rn).
I do personally admire Edwina overall for extraordinary stamina and courage during the Partition era (though I also think she treated Jinnah unfairly)& other charity work, and I do sympathise with her losing her (already neglectful) mother at 9 and having an uninvolved father, which probably made being a mother in her early 20s hard. I still think she behaved awfully as a mother & wife though (though I also think Mountbatten must have been quite a difficult man to be married too, esp if he was closeted).
Re Edwina exploiting royal connections, I don't remember that but sounds possible- how? Dickie certainly did..

Thanks OP. I suppose the exploiting royal connections for Edwina was on the back of dickie who blatantly did.