New Prince Andrew Bio Sends Royal Shockwaves

By Alex Miller

In his new royal biography, “Entitled:  The Rise and Fall of the House of York,” released 14 August 2025, author Andrew Lownie thoroughly exposes and consistently trashes HRH Prince Andrew, Duke of York, Queen Elizabeth II’s second son.  Andrew is mercilessly depicted as arrogant, self-serving and in denial about his links to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.  In 2021, one of Epstein’s many victims, Virginia Guiffre, brought a civil suit against Andrew, to whom she alleged Epstein had trafficked her at age 17.  The suit was settled out of court in March 2022 for a reported $16 million, with a substantial portion of the award to go to Giuffre’s sex trafficking charity.

Andrew has always reveled in his bad boy, black sheep image among the Royal Family, but that persona may be wearing thin.  Already on thin ice in many regards, the hit from this bio to his reputation and standing may well prevent any hope of his rehabilitation.  “Entitled” is packed chockablock with new revelations of sex and money scandals, in 450+ pages, based on hundreds of interviews given over four years of research.

The Giuffre civil suit and settlement blotted the copybook for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022, and Andrew has been persona non grata among his family ever since.  Brother Charles III, Andrew’s new landlord at his Royal Lodge residence in Windsor Great Park, even tried to kick him out after their mother’s death, but the parties came to an understanding before the Prince actually became homeless.

The timing for the release of the book, which delves deeply into Andrew’s Epstein connections, couldn’t be better from a cosmic point of view, with asteroid Epstein (1 Aries) coming to its station (1) exactly conjunct planetary powerhouses Saturn and Neptune.  Saturn represents criticism, censure and punishment, the harsh light of stark reality; Neptune governs secrets, subterfuge and denial, our fantasies of how things should be.  (The period of Epstein’s station also coincided with a huge fracas on the other side of the pond, when Donald Trump’s Justice Department failed to release the files on Epstein and his crimes, as previously promised, so Epstein is once again Big News, as his celestial referent reaches a pivotal stage.)

The Saturn/Neptune/Epstein union opposes (180 degrees) Mars (4 Libra), associated with sex, and forms a Grand Cross (2) by squares (90 degrees) to dwarf planets Chaos (4 Cancer) and Ixion (5 Capricorn).  Chaos is just what it sounds like – turmoil, disruption and anarchy, all of which are likely to ensue for Andrew from this bio, while among Ixion’s keywords is “entitlement,” with “Entitled” the very title of the book!

And speaking of books, that’s Mercury’s bailiwick, and the planet of literature and news also came to its station (4 Leo) during the period, on August 11^th.  Mercury forms a second Grand Cross, opposing Pluto (2 Aquarius), associated with sex, scandal and criminal conduct; and squared to asteroids Maxwell (1 Taurus), reflective of Epstein’s cohort and facilitator Ghislaine Maxwell; and Andree (1 Scorpio), the French and Portuguese form of “Andrew,” for which there is no exact asteroid match.  As well, asteroid Virginia (3 Aquarius) conjoins Pluto, which also has affinities with rape or coercive sex, here representing Virginia Guiffre.  So we have here the image of a biography (Mercury) about Andrew (Andree), involving an Epstein co-conspirator (Maxwell) and one of their victims (Virginia), who was trafficked specifically to the Prince.

Putting further red meat on the cosmic bone, there’s a cluster of points lying in mid-Virgo, on the midpoint between Mercury and Andree, roughly semisquare (45 degrees) each.  These include asteroids Karma (15 Virgo), Prinz (17 Virgo) and Achilles (20 Virgo).  Karma is the results of our actions; Prinz is the German word for “prince;” and Achilles represents a weak point, vulnerability and exposure (as in “Achilles heel”).  That about says it all:  a member of royalty (Prinz) whose former misdeeds (Karma) are exposed, making him vulnerable (Achilles).  Even the source of this vulnerability for Andrew from prior acts can be seen in Achilles’ exact conjunction with Andrew’s (3) natal asteroid Epstein!

The threat of impending peril for Andrew this year has been further represented by asteroid York (currently 3 Pisces), his ducal title, which has been traveling with Damocles (currently 4 Pisces) throughout the twelvemonth.  Damocles represents the doom or destruction hanging unseen overhead (as in “Sword of Damocles”), and while Andrew has successfully navigated the threat of the loss of his home, it remains to be seen if he can weather the firestorm of criticism and opprobrium unleashed by “Entitled.”  With the ongoing York/Damocles conjunction now in square to Uranus (0 Gemini), governing shock, controversy and socially unacceptable behaviors, that redemption seems unlikely.

Footnotes:  (1)  a planetary station occurs when a body appears to slow its motion, come to a standstill, and reverse course.  It’s an optical illusion from our perspective, based on the triangulation of the sun, Earth, and a third celestial body, but astrologically, it represents a condensation and enhancement of the energies involved, a pivotal turning point or crisis, or a momentous development.
(2)  a Grand Cross describes a pattern where four planets or clusters of planets lie roughly 90 degrees equidistant from each other in a “cross,” indicative of a life of great stress, challenge, or terrible life choices.

(3) Prince Andrew 19 February 1960 3:30 PM GMT, London, England, Rodden Rating AA

Sources:  reporting from BBC, chart data from astro.com and serennu.com, images created by author

Title Image Credit:  drawn by ChatGPT