Nigel Cawthorne started his writing career at the FINANCIAL TIMES and has written books on the royal family and its history, as well as provided news comment on Sky, ITV, STV and BBC radio. He lives in Bloomsbury, London.

• Legal Bombshells (19 February 2026)1 Betting The Firm2 The Trouble with Andrew3 Baby Grumpling4 Mummy's Boy5 Girls, Girls, Girls6 When Andrew Met Fergie7 'Never Heard of You'8 Who Was Jeffrey Epstein?9 Sex Slaves and Puritans10 Nemesis11 BBC Newsnight Car Crash12 Fallout13 The Mysterious Ms Maxwell14 'Only One of Us Telling the Truth'15 Federal Witness16 Buckingham Palace Retreat17 Andrew's Counter-Attack18 A Throne in Peril?Index

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