Fergie's mum was Prince Philip's lover: Inside story behind the claim

Of all the jaw-dropping claims in Andrew Lownie’s meticulously researched book about Prince Andrew – from his insatiable sexual appetite to his wife’s financial recklessness – it is one of the most provocative.

It forms the very opening of the whole biography, in fact, as follows: ‘The father of the groom and mother of the bride – lovers 20 years earlier – sat in the third carriage waving to the crowds...’