Andrew Lownie: Why the Palace Should Fear Charles Spencer

About this episode

The palace's carefully managed silence has been shattered, and bestselling royal biographer Andrew Lownie has been watching the fallout unfold. The day after Charles Spencer's explosive interview with Laura Kuenssberg reopened questions about Princess Diana's treatment and the royal family's decades-long PR machine, Lownie joins us to unpack what's really happening behind palace doors. As the author of The Rise and Fall of the House of York and The Traitor King , and one of the country's most respected literary agents, Lownie has faced the same playbook of discreditation that Spencer is now up against, and he's not holding back. Instead of a straightforward defence, the palace has deployed…