Entitled is an eye-opener for sure but I think you must be on the opening chapter as that is the very least of it!
Do not read the rest of this post Cielovista
as it constitutes a spoiler!
The book goes on to eviscerate, with great precision, how AMW allegedly engaged in financial corruption, alleged systemic commercial exploitation of his royal status and public office, and opaque commercial ventures.
For example, aside from the tax-payer funded golf jollies when, according to Lownie, AMW’s massages were allegedly listed as official routine expenses, as trade envoy, supposedly representing British business interests, AMW also allegedly routinely used taxpayer-funded official trips to line his own pockets integrating unofficial, private business advisors, such as billionaire David Rowland, in to formal diplomatic meetings to help them establish lucrative commercial ventures.
He allegedly participated in questionable financial deals in China and elsewhere, including receiving massive loans from commercial interests that he was never expected to repay.
He also allegedly used royal properties and access to support "Pitch at the Palace" an entity which was supposedly a charity but was heavily scrutinised for allegedly serving private commercial interests.
Entitled also exposes how AMW was allegedly involved with suspicious offshore money transfers, illicit funding sources, and a pattern of hiding financial assets eg the alleged Nebahat Isbilen payment, his transactional financial relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, which lasted longer than he admitted, in which AMW allegedly profited financially and from receiving business advice and tip offs, while allegedly providing Epstein with contacts and respectability, the hush money for VG and the way AMW allegedly used the protective machinery of the royal household to block FOI requests, aggressively hiding receipts, funding details for the Royal Lodge etc.
And that’s just the financial aspects, leaving aside AMW’s alleged wholly sexually inappropriate behaviour, which is a whole other part of the book, eg the nanny who left because AMW allegedly behaved inappropriately towards her. And the bullying and screaming at staff and the mad driving around the Windsor estate, crashing in to gates and hurting a policeman.
This summary leaves out Sarah Ferguson’s alleged activities too!
And, one of my own personal horrors, Lownie recounts how AMW caused a major public relations disaster after his visit to Lockerbie, following the terrorist incident when Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up and the remnants crashed down on to the village, he deeply offended and shocked grieving residents by saying that,
‘… the Americans had it "much worse" and that it had only been a matter of time before a plane fell out of the sky.´
For me though, the outrage is that this behaviour was allowed to continue for eleven years minimum (in reality it went on much longer) during the time AMW served as trade envoy, with seemingly no outside official scrutiny. How was this allowed to happen?
And when the head of the Foreign Office, intelligence sources and diplomats complained to the late QE2, they were sent away with a flea in their ears! In fact, the worse he got, the more the late Queen awarded him with new honours!
Lownie says that some senior FO personnel who were willing to talk to him for the book, won’t talk openly now, presumably due to pressure from above?
Former PPOs have allegedly been silenced by legal letters. Flight logs have allegedly disappeared.
And it wasn’t just the late Queen who knew, because allegedly she, Prince Philip and the then Prince Charles, contributed to the £12 million pay off to Giuffre.
And then after all that, Charles, or someone, was allegedly responsible for a failed PR attempt to rehabilitate AMW back in to the family too eg when William was seen driving him to church.
Just why after Charles had been the only one who had strongly objected to AMW’s appointment as trade envoy in the first place, which proved he had at least some idea in advance of how AMW would behave in the role?