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Disputed claims that Prince Andrew<\/a> and Prince Harry<\/a> were involved in a physical altercation that left the former with a bloody nose will remain in a new biography, its author has confirmed.<\/p>\n

The Duke of Sussex insisted that the incident had never happened after the book began being serialised in the Daily Mail – and his lawyers sent legal letters to both the newspaper and publisher William Collins. A passage alleging that Andrew told his nephew Meghan Markle<\/a> was an “opportunist” and that the marriage wouldn’t last was also denied by the prince’s team.<\/p>\n

But Andrew Lownie, author of Entitled, which focuses on Prince Andrew<\/a> and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, told an upcoming episode of Newsweek’s The Royal Report podcast that it wouldn’t be removed from the published text.<\/p>\n

“Harry wasn’t in my book at all,” the royal expert and historian said. “And I think when the book came in, the publisher said, maybe just out of interest, ‘What was the relationship between Andrew and Harry?’<\/p>\n

“So I went to my source and they gave me that little paragraph talking about the altercations in 2013 and then over Meghan in 2017. I didn’t think any of us thought that it was anything but a sort of passing moment.”<\/p>\n

“I had to double down with my source and make sure it was accurate, which we believe it is,” he added.<\/p>\n

“Collins have responded in a responsible way, they’ve added a line actually, and I recorded the line for the audiobook a couple of days ago, just saying that Harry denies these allegations.<\/p>\n

“And I hope that will be the end of it. I mean, I don’t think it’s defamatory. I think it actually presents him in quite a positive light, and certainly, there was no desire to cause offence. It was just a sort of reflection.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disputed claims that Prince Andrew and Prince Harry were involved in a physical altercation that left the former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[1485,123727,7721,7719,5193,1281,8003,447,5105,7710,519,123728,66693,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-349752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-as-ever","9":"tag-as-ever-news","10":"tag-duchess-of-sussex","11":"tag-duke-of-sussex","12":"tag-live-blog","13":"tag-meghan-markle","14":"tag-meghan-markle-latest-news","15":"tag-prince-harry","16":"tag-royal","17":"tag-royal-families","18":"tag-royal-family","19":"tag-royal-family-live-updates","20":"tag-royal-updates","21":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115039812112964376","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}