Overview
- Royal historian Andrew Lownie alleges Andrew had 40 prostitutes brought to his five-star hotel over four days during a taxpayer-funded visit to Thailand.
- Lownie says diplomats and other officials enabled the visits and cites multiple unnamed sources, including a member of the Thai royal family, as corroboration.
- The claims are part of a broader portrayal of Andrew’s 2001–2011 Trade Envoy tenure as mixing official travel with extended private time and luxury lodging.
- Former trade envoy Paul Scully recounts a Bangkok stay where Andrew allegedly booked nearly an entire floor of the Mandarin Oriental at an estimated cost of about £50,000.
- Palace statements reported this week describe a formal process to remove his styles, titles and honors and to end his Royal Lodge lease, while key envoy-era records remain undisclosed.