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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Kristin Contino

Andrew Biographer Claims that the Disgraced Ex-Duke "Would Bully" Queen Elizabeth "Into Doing Things"

Queen Elizabeth wearing a light blue hat and coat talking to ex-Prince Andrew leaning over a railing.

Andrew Lownie’s biography of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson, Entitled, follows the “rise and fall of the house of York,” and in a recent talk at the Oxford Literary Festival, the author claims that Queen Elizabeth was highly influenced by her favorite son, Andrew.

Per the Times, Lownie spoke about the former Duke of York and his relationship with the late Queen at the festival, stating: “By the end of her life, what people don’t realize, is that she was completely gaga. He [Andrew] would go up there and he would bully her into doing things.”

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