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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was "bumptious and arrogant" as early as 1998, according to claims by royal biographer Andrew Lownie. In a new chapter of his book, Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, he has made several new claims about the former Duke and Duchess of York.

The author has added 41 pages of new material in a scathing chapter titled 'The Reckoning' in the paperback edition, which will be published on May 21. The cutting pages cover the months following the release of Lownie's original book in August 2025, and include new sordid details that the former prince was accused of doing during his decades as a senior working royal.

When the original was published, it became a Sunday Times bestseller, with numerous claims about the pair, including scandals involving money and sex.

One new excerpt, under a section called 'Strange Behaviour', Lownie details an alleged exchange between the former prince and the wife of a wing commander in the RAF.

"Andrew's strange behaviour has affected so many people," Lownie writes. He says the disgraced prince made a poor impression at an RAF base during a royal visit nearly 30 years ago.

"Wendy Erskine, wife of a wing commander at RAF Lossiemouth, met Andrew when he visited the airbase in 1998. All the officers' wives were expected to turn up at the airfield to applaud his arrival, but even then he was thought of as a bumptious, ignorant character."

He alleges that when Mountbatten-Windsor spoke to Erskine, the former Duke boasted about making money through arms deals.

Mr Lownie claims: "Chatting to Erskine, Andrew said he frequently visited the Saudi Royal Family and found them very boring, but he went so often because 'it made his mother, the Queen, a lot of money in arms deals'."

Andrew Lownie's book, which runs to more than 450 pages, is said to have taken four years to research and to have involved hundreds of interviews.

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has consistently denied any wrongdoing in response to claims made about him.