Inside Fergie's alleged 'friends with benefits affair' with rapper P Diddy
The Daily T
The Telegraph
4.1 • 705 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Lownie, royal historian and biographer behind the bestselling ‘Entitled: The Rise and Fall of House of York’, a biography of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, joins The Daily T to discuss the updated paperback edition of his bestselling book.
Camilla and Tim talk to Lownie about the book’s most explosive new allegations, from claims surrounding Sarah Ferguson’s links to Sean “Diddy” Combs and the late Ghislaine Maxwell, to accusations about Prince Andrew’s behaviour towards staff.
They also discuss the Yorks’ long-running financial troubles, Andrew’s life away from public duties, and whether King Charles can ever fully escape the shadow of the Andrew scandal.
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Highlights
- Allegations of an affair between Sarah Ferugson and Sean Coombs
- The Yorks’ long-running financial troubles
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:06.0 | More explosive claims from royal biographer Andrew Launy, including that Sarah Ferguson had a Friends with Benefits arrangement with the rapper P Diddy. |
| 0:20.0 | Launy's updated book also features shocking allegations about the former Prince Andrew's behaviour towards women and how he's now spending his days at Marsh Farm playing Call of Duty. |
| 0:30.6 | Welcome to The Daily Tea with me, Camilla Tominy me, Tim Stanley. |
| 0:55.7 | Andrew Lowney is back in the Daily Tea Studio with an update to your best-selling book about the York's entitled The Rise and Fall of the House of York. |
| 1:02.5 | Now, Andrew, come on. I do look at this top line story with a degree of skepticism. |
| 1:19.2 | You are suggesting that Sarah Ferguson, aka Fergie, also known as Tim Stanley's favourite royal, had an affair with P Diddy, also known as Puff Daddy, also known as Sean Combs, I think it's pronounced. |
| 1:20.7 | What? |
| 1:22.7 | Well, that's why I've been told. |
| 1:32.2 | And if you remember, there was a lot of scepticism about a lot of things I said back in August when the Har hardback came out. And they've all been proved to be true with the Epstein Revelations. I mean, |
| 1:37.1 | I think we've taken out two lines out of the book, out of 140,000 words. This was very heavily legal, as you can imagine. I'm putting my reputation on the line with this. Very, very well |
| 1:41.4 | sourced. And it's very interesting that in the response that Sarah Ferguson's |
| 1:46.4 | PR team put out, they claim to have only, that she only met him twice. Well, we have more than two |
| 1:51.5 | pictures of them at different events. One of the things I did get wrong is I suggested she had |
| 1:56.6 | met him in 2002. In fact, there are pictures of them together at Diddy's birthday in 1998. |
| 2:03.6 | She said that this is just one of many unfounded allegations. |
| 2:06.6 | It's the first time that she's actually mentioned in the unfounded allegations. |
| 2:09.6 | She's never itemized them. |
| 2:11.6 | I'm very happy to see her in court and go through them all. |
| 2:14.6 | Hang on, let me just say that a source close to Ferguson said this about the new claims. |
| 2:20.7 | Quotes, this is absolute fabricated nonsense, blatantly untrue and yet another false allegation from him, |
| 2:29.6 | Brackets Launey. |
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