Andrew Lownie - Biographer
Lisvane Old School Community Centre, Cardiff, CF14 0SX
Friday 5th June 2026
Andrew Lownie was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was President of the Union, before taking his master’s and doctorate at Edinburgh University. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he later returned to Cambridge as a visiting fellow at Churchill College.
He has been a bookseller, publisher, journalist writing for The Times, Telegraph, Wall Street Journal, Spectator, Guardian and since 1988 has run his own literary agency. He is President of the Biographers Club, sits on the board of Biographers International Organisation and is a Trustee of the Campaign for Freedom of Information. His books include the prize-winning Stalin’s Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess (2015) and the top ten Sunday Times bestsellers The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves (2019) and Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (2021).
Festival favourite Andrew will be talking about his latest bestseller, Entitled, the explosive expose that helped fell a prince, and the most extraordinary and dramatic royal story in a generation.
For more information on Andrew Lownie visit his website: Andrew Lownie.co.uk
or follow Andrew on facebook : Andrew Lownie
and X/Twitter: andrewlownie
Listen to Andrew discussing 'Entitled' at the Isle of Wight Literary festival: Interview with Andrew Lownie
He has been a bookseller, publisher, journalist writing for The Times, Telegraph, Wall Street Journal, Spectator, Guardian and since 1988 has run his own literary agency. He is President of the Biographers Club, sits on the board of Biographers International Organisation and is a Trustee of the Campaign for Freedom of Information. His books include the prize-winning Stalin’s Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess (2015) and the top ten Sunday Times bestsellers The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves (2019) and Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (2021).
Festival favourite Andrew will be talking about his latest bestseller, Entitled, the explosive expose that helped fell a prince, and the most extraordinary and dramatic royal story in a generation.
For more information on Andrew Lownie visit his website: Andrew Lownie.co.uk
or follow Andrew on facebook : Andrew Lownie
and X/Twitter: andrewlownie
Listen to Andrew discussing 'Entitled' at the Isle of Wight Literary festival: Interview with Andrew Lownie
