Prince Harry and Prince Andrew are portrayed in historian Andrew Lownie's new book as being quite adversarial toward each other. Their main beef, at least according to the book, is over Harry's wife Meghan Markle.

The Duke of York described himself as a friend of Maxwell and her as Jeffrey Epstein 's girlfriend when he gave a disastrous interview to the BBC in 2019. The Newsnight sit-down led to him having to step back from public life and face widespread ridicule on social media.