Lady Victoria Hervey says claims she was snubbed from Andrew Lownie’s Entitled are “nonsense”
Lady Victoria Hervey is pushing back against reports that she was barred from the launch of Andrew Lownie’s new book about Prince Andrew’s family.
Lownie is celebrating the release of Entitled: The Rise And Fall Of The House Of York with a party at The London Library on Thursday, August 14. According to the Daily Mail’s Richard Eden, the 90s socialite and former girlfriend of the Duke of York was left off the guest list after making remarks about the book.
Eden claimed that publicist Brian Basham asked if Lady Victoria could attend as his guest, only for Lownie to allegedly reply: “Look forward to seeing you, but she’s barred.”
Lady Victoria quickly dismissed the story, telling the Daily Express that she had no intention of going. “I definitely was not planning on going anywhere near that party,” she said. “It was a joke I had with Brian Basham, saying he would call me Mrs Basham and I’d come in a wig. Never would have gone though. The guy has a really unhealthy obsession with the Yorks. Jacob Rees-Mogg’s interview with him was brilliant TV.”
The daughter of the 6th Marquess of Bristol, Lady Victoria became a fixture of the 90s party circuit and briefly dated Prince Andrew in 1999. She has also spoken in the past about her connections to Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein.
