The crisis facing the royal family over the Epstein files revelations about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is more serious than the abdication of Edward VIII, the author of the former prince’s biography has claimed. Andrew Lownie, author of Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, said that Mountbatten-Windsor’s actions had caused greater public anger than the abdication crisis, when the king stepped down from his role to marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson. Speaking at Oxford Literary Festival, Lownie said the abdication had been a “three-day wonder”, the full details of which the general public did not engage with...