Prince Andrew's biographer breaks silence on Fergie scandal in brutal take down

A biographer who recently wrote a book about Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson has broken his silence on the latest royal scandal this week. Andrew Lownie, who celebrated the publication of his book Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York recently, said he does not have a lot of sympathy for the Duchess of York, 65, after it was revealed she had emailed Jeffrey Epstein in 2011.

The email, sent by Sarah to the late convicted paedophile after he was released from jail for child sex offences, saw the duchess apologise to Epstein for disowning him publicly. She also referred to him as her "supreme friend".

While a spokesperson for the duchess has said the email was sent by Sarah at the time as she feared being sued by him for defamation, the revelation has still resulted in a crisis for Prince Andrew's ex-wife, who has been dropped as patron from a number of charities since.

In an exclusive interview with Express.co.uk about the situation, royal author Andrew Lownie has said that Sarah is acting as if she is "the victim".

He said: "I'm afraid, having studied her for so long, I don't have a great deal of sympathy for her.

"She'll pick herself up. She's the Becky Sharp of the Royal Family, so I have no doubt she will be networking. She will be talking to people. She will be pretending, in the way she pretended in that letter to Epstein, that she was the victim.

"She has no self-awareness. She has no acceptance of what she's done, the same problem as Andrew. But she'll just pick herself up, and that's what people admire, and she'll get on with it again somehow. We probably haven't had the end of Fergie, but we deserve to."

When asked whether the duchess can make a comeback from the situation, Lownie said she is probably "huddled with her PR people" who will be working on a strategy.

He also said that she is likely to return to public life like she has done after scandals before, including in 2010 when she was caught offering to sell access to her ex-husband Prince Andrew by a News of the World reporter, who posed as a businessman.

Lownie told Express.co.uk: "I didn't think she was going to come back after the 2010 News of the World sting, and she did. I would say like Mandelson, no one expected him to come back on those two occasions and he did. He didn't last very long, and the two are not dissimilar; she'll go on Oprah, she'll do a mea culpa.

"Lots of naive Americans will think poor thing, she's a victim, which she's very good at playing and the King will forgive her, and I suppose everything in the caravan will move on."