There isn’t much in common on the face of it between the two big biographies out this week, Andrew Lownie’s Entitled, the double biography of Prince Andrew and his former wife, Sarah, Duchess of York, and Frankly, the memoir of Nicola Sturgeon, the diminutive former Scottish first minister. Nonetheless, one observation of Nicola Sturgeon comes to mind in reading Andrew Lownie’s book.
Recalling her amicable conversations with the late Queen Elizabeth, she observes that “having had the opportunity to observe the Royal Family up close, I have little doubt that history, however long … will look back on the day of her death as the beginning of the end”.
