Royal author Andrew Lownie has defended his claims that Sarah Ferguson once had a sexual relationship with disgraced rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Lownie, whose 2025 book Entitled charted the lives of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and his ex-wife, Ferguson, published new claims about the pair on Saturday (May 9).
Diddy had allegedly bragged about his sex life with Ferguson and would meet her in luxury hotels, including one that cost more than £50,000 a night, Lownie claimed in an extract of the updated paperback edition, Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, which is set to be published on May 21.
In an extract published by the Daily Mail over the weekend, Lownie wrote that a former employee at Diddy’s Bad Boy Records claimed the rapper was obsessed with the royal family and boasted about having sex with Ferguson. A source alleged that Combs once commented “he could not wait until Fergie’s daughters come of age”.
Last year, Combs was sentenced to four years and two months in prison following his conviction on federal prostitution-related charges.
The book quotes another associate of the singer who said Ferguson first met Combs at a 2002 party thrown by Ghislaine Maxwell and that a secret “friends with benefits” relationship began in 2004 and lasted for years.
Maxwell, a friend of Ferguson and Jeffrey Epstein’s former partner, was convicted of sex trafficking in December 2021, as well as other similar charges relating to procuring underage girls for Epstein.
However, a source close to Ferguson dismissed the new claims, telling The Sunday Times: “This is absolute fabricated nonsense, blatantly untrue, and yet another false allegation from him.”
Lownie told the publication that his evidence came from several people and that he had no doubts about his sources, saying: “I stand by it, it’s fully sourced with former employees of P Diddy and Sarah Ferguson,” adding that Ferguson was proven to have lied about breaking contact with Epstein in 2011.
Last September, an email surfaced showing Ferguson called Epstein – who was arrested in July 2019 for sex trafficking – her “supreme friend” and apologised for publicly criticising him, just weeks after saying she would have nothing to do with him.
Several charities dropped her as a patron and ambassador after the email was published.
The hardback edition of Entitled came out last August and was a precursor to the dramatic downfall of both Andrew and Ferguson with damaging and lurid claims, including that the former prince was a “serial sex addict” who had supposedly slept with more than 1,000 women.
In the paperback, Lownie writes that a men’s perfume Combs released in 2006 called “Unforgivable” was inspired by Ferguson and how she liked a man to smell.
He also claimed that Ferguson introduced her two daughters to Combs on many occasions, including a yacht party weekend in 2006 when Eugenie was 16, with a royal staff member allegedly telling the author: “Sean’s parties were wild. The fact that she brought Eugenie around was alarming.”
