“I Describe Them as the Mafia”: Andrew Lownie on the Royal Family

Andrew Lownie spent thirty years as one of Britain's leading literary agents, establishment, discreet, well-connected. Then he started digging into the royal family, and he kept going. His new biography of the former Prince Andrew, Entitled, was called "among the most lurid ever published about a senior royal." Simon & Schuster's US imprint dropped it weeks before publication; he is suing them for breach of contract and self-published the American edition himself. In The Biographer They Tried to Silence, James Kirkham sits down with Lownie to talk about lawfare, lone-voice tenacity, and what it costs to tell a story powerful people would rather you didn't.