Andrew James Hamilton Lownie FRHistS (; born 11 November 1961) is a British historian and author. He has written books about the royal family. This includes Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor on the Duke of Windsor and his links with the Nazis, and Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein. He has also written biographies of John Buchan and the Soviet spy Guy Burgess.
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Early life
Andrew Lownie was born in Scotland in November 1961 to Claudine Lecrocq (1932–2019) and Judge Ralph Lownie (1924–2007). He was educated at Cargilfield Preparatory School, Fettes College, Asheville School, North Carolina, and Westminster School, followed by Magdalene College, Cambridge, and was President of the Cambridge Union in Easter term 1984. He has a master's degree and doctorate from the University of Edinburgh, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He was the Conservative Party candidate in the Monklands West constituency at the 1992 United Kingdom general election. His doctoral thesis (2019) was titled "Stalin's Englishman: the lives of Guy Burgess: biography in intelligence history" and discussed his own 2015 book on Burgess.