'Entitled' - by Andrew Lownie

On this episode of #AudioBookClub:

'Their trousers all fell down!"

Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub, a weekly podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.

On this week's episode we are casting an ear over Andrew Lownie's joint biography of The Duke and Duchess of York.

Entitled The Rise and Fall of the House of York A: Andrew Lownie N: Andrew Lownie R: 14-08-25 L: 11 hrs and 40 mins P: William Collins #Biographies & #Memoirs

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A Particularly Nasty Case A: Adam Kay N: Andy Serkis R: 28-08-25 L: 10 hrs and 9 mins P: Orion #Literature #Fiction

TRANSCRIPT Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton discuss Audiobook Club on this podcast Matthew Layton: Audiobook Club with Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton. Steve Phillips: On this episode of Audiobook Club. The grand old Duke of York was once a very naughty boy. Speaker C: Andrew quickly grew into the classic spoil brat. Aware of his high rank from an early age. Arrogant and overbearing, he would order staff about and according to one member of staff, be a bloody nuisance. Even the Queen described him as a bit of a handful. He was fond of practical jokes, hiding knives and forks when a footman was laying the table, tying the shoelaces of centuries, teasing his grandmother and reputedly an Anglican bishop at Balmoral as well, with a whoopee cushion, putting itching powder into his mother's bed, turning the aerial at Buckingham palace so she could not watch the racing at sundown, and putting washing up liquid in the palace pool. A valuable silver tray was used as a toboggan for sliding down palace stairs, and he would pedal furiously up and down the long red carpeted corridors on his tricycle. Almost from the beginning, he felt a strong sense of entitlement with fawning staff, lavish homes, chauffeured cars, and showed himself to be wilful, exuberant, gregarious, undisciplined and aggressive, and possessed of a limited attention span. Evelyn Muir Bell, who worked at Windsor, between 1973 and 1995, remembered him as the most troublesome royal, a tiresome little shit. Matthew Layton: Audiobook Club with Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton. Steve Phillips: Hello and welcome to Audiobook Club, the podcast about audiobooks that loves pizza express and sports. Sweats like a pig. Matt. Hi, Matt. Matthew Layton: Hello, Steve. I love making you say things. Steve Phillips: Yes. Yeah, I just sight read that. Matthew Layton: Still fun. Well, welcome back. Steve Phillips: yeah, well, welcome, welcome back, welcome back. Here we are, Season three. I did want to say a welcome back to Audiobook Club, where this week we're going through a lot of princely sums. But you came up with something much more highbrow than I ever did. Matthew Layton: yes, well, that's my job, isn't it? No, it's more low brow. I'm nothing but, but filthy low brow and smutty. oh, speaking of which, that leads me, on to another little clip I prepared that I didn't think I was gonna get the chance to play, but write up your strasse. Here is a, list of the guests from the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of York, or Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, as she was until that point. that I thought you, you might enjoy. Speaker C: Almost 2,000 guests had filled the abbey, among them, Nancy Reagan, the racing driver, Jackie Stewart, the comedian Billy Connolly and his actress wife Pamela Stevenson. Elton John and his wife Renata, Michael and Shakira Kane, Barry Humphries, the American comedian Joan Rivers and the actor Anthony Andrews as well as foreign royals, aristocrats and the great and the good. Matthew Layton: How's that for Elton John and his wife Renata? That dates it, doesn't it? Steve Phillips: That's going back a little bit, isn't it?

The Rise and Fall of the House of York by Andrew Lo