In a few days, royal writer Andrew Lownie’s book Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York will hit the shelves in paperback, with new information on the latest Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor scandal. The book also focuses on his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson and details about her relationships with staff have been divulged. There’s the request for a fresh cream cake to be made each and every day, and the book also reveals the “chaotic” demands for her personal assistants.

The book reads: “One of Sarah’s long-serving personal assistants found life with the duchess ‘chaotic’. It was not for everyone: ‘Some people only lasted half a day. It was like working with fifty jealous lovers.'” The assistant admitted she was “embarrassed” for Sarah over the former royal’s freebie-grabbing nature. “Sarah rarely paid for anything, expecting to be given products for free or be entertained by friends. She ‘borrowed’ security from some of her rich acquaintances. She was lent couture and didn’t always return it, or she ordered garments and often didn’t end up paying for them,” Lownie writes.

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Sarah’s money struggles 

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The publication is a no-holds-barred account which also claims the mother-of-two pulled on her daughters’ finances to cover her own expenses. “The assistant and other staff members had problems getting paid and often had to buy things using their own credit cards. Sarah herself drew on Beatrice’s credit card constantly and paid one psychic in cigarettes.” Employees were allegedly forced to sign NDAs to stop them from disclosing these circumstances to the press.  

Entitled delivers blow for Andrew 

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The eagerly anticipated exposé is a further blow for disgraced former royal Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who has lost his royal titles and been ousted from his 30-room mansion. The book uses extensive Freedom of Information requests and over a hundred interviews to document Andrew’s fall from grace – including his controversial ties to Jeffrey Epstein. 

The publication details Andrew’s current set-up, too, explaining that he now only has a skeleton staff at his disposal at his new home, Marsh Farm on the Sandringham Estate. “Andrew now had to rely on just a housekeeper, a cook and general aide, alongside a team of police protection officers. His only other company were two corgis that had once belonged to the late Queen and several Norfolk terriers,” Lownie pens. This is a far cry from the army of employees he would have had at his Royal Lodge home where he paid “peppercorn” rent.