Entitled Quotes

“The Duchess in Hull. The Duchess on the Estate,”
― Andrew Lownie, Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York

“The Newsnight programme ‘Prince Andrew & the Epstein Scandal’ was shown on the BBC on 16 November. The press reaction was instantaneous and unanimous. The Washington Post called it ‘a car crash’, while the New York Times reported that ‘experts on the royal family have described the interview as the biggest public relations debacle for the British royal family since the turbulent aftermath of the death of Princess Diana in a car crash in 1997.’ ‘I expected a train wreck,’ tweeted Charlie Proctor, editor of the Royal Central website. ‘That was a plane crashing into an oil tanker, causing a tsunami, triggering a nuclear explosion level bad.”
― Andrew Lownie, Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York

“Sarah Vine, writing in the Daily Mail, admitted a different view of the duchess, who had set up a stall next to the main wedding marquee promoting her range of teas: ‘The woman is utterly incorrigible. And yet. There is something about her indefatigable, indestructible nature that I can’t help but admire. Something in her propensity for pratfalls of her own making that makes her so much more human than other royals.’ Vine likened her to ‘a human Labrador: clumsy, over-excitable, greedy, prone to causing breakages with her constantly wagging tail – but ultimately impossible to remain angry with for all that long’.”
― Andrew Lownie, Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York

“At one event focused on outreach with local authority schools, it was planned to invite some of the children to the royal box. One of Andrew’s daughters objected and requested that she only be joined by ‘the sort of people who shop at John Lewis’.”
― Andrew Lownie, Entitled

“He made a bloody nuisance of himself. He sat there for two hours and said nothing. Part of the deal for coming out was to talk to British businessmen, but at the last minute he said he couldn’t make the meeting, despite the trouble we had setting it up. Instead, he played golf.”
― Andrew Lownie, Entitled

“He invaded one’s personal space, would rant and was unable to read a room. He behaved like a teenager, boasting he could connect easily to Bill Gates.”
― Andrew Lownie, Entitled

“As he left the room, the CEO of a major international search firm commented, ‘That was why we threw the tea in the harbour.”
― Andrew Lownie, Entitled

“Reunited with her father, who worked as a maintenance manager at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, Roberts had found work there as a spa attendant.”
― Andrew Lownie, Entitled