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Andrew O’Hagan in the LRB reviews Andrew Lownie’s new book Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York alongside Virginia Giuffre’s autobiography, and in doing so eviscerates Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and the cheap, tawdry corruption with which he has coasted through his adult life:

“With some people, money and sex are the only truths. It’s the ultimate delinquency to believe that gratification itself is power. Bringing down the royal family may be the least terrible consequence of everything Andrew has done. When a lazy aristocrat from a dying dynasty uses a helicopter to travel seventeen miles, the edifice shakes. But when that same man rapes a 17-year-old and calls her a liar, it is the end of days. The gift of Andy and Fergie, which comes at too high a price, has been to bring the antiseptic of daylight to the culture of royal privilege.”