If you’re fascinated – and revolted – by the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, it’s worth delving into Royal watcher Andrew Lownie’s book, Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York.

The New York Post, Lownie says Prince Andrew and the convicted sex offender bonded over ‘money and sex’.

Lownie said it was a ‘win-win situation for both of them’.

He told Fox News Digital: “Andrew gave Epstein respectability and some useful contacts from his role as a special trade envoy… And for Andrew, Epstein provided someone who would pay [his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson’s] bills, someone who provided a ready supply of women and also, as he said in the Newsnight interview, had some useful contacts for him.”

Lownie is at Bridport Electric Palace on Friday 7 November at 12 noon as part of Bridport Literary Festival.

Tickets available here: electricpalace.org.uk

Packed full of extraordinary revelations, Entitled is the first joint biography of the Duke and Duchess of York.

Drawing on four years of research and interviews, biographer Andrew Lownie chronicles their lives in parallel through childhood, courtship, careers and divorce.

The picture that emerges is of a spoilt prince unable to connect and a duchess pushed by her insecurities into a desperate need to maintain the attention her ‘royal’ status brought. Rigorously researched and packed full of revelations, this is eyewatering biography at its best.