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SUMMARY:Reforming the British royal family: how the House of Windsor can s
 urvive the 21st century
LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person and online public event (MA
 R.2.04\, Marshall Building)
DESCRIPTION:Monday 19 October 2026 6.30pm - 8pmSpeakerAndrew LownieChairPr
 ofessor Simon GlendinningAndrew Lownie explores the challenges facing the 
 British Royal Family today in the 2026 Maurice Fraser Annual Lecture.The s
 candals around the former Prince Andrew have raised wider questions about 
 royal privilege and accountability. The Public Accounts Committee are look
 ing into the Crown Estates and there are calls for greater parliamentary s
 crutiny not least of how the Royal Family are funded \, the removal of the
  royal exemptions in the Freedom of Information Act\, the opening of royal
  wills\, a royal register and reform of the Duchies of Lancaster and Cornw
 all. Andrew Lownie\, who has long argued for greater transparency about ro
 yal finances and archives \, outlines how the monarchy could make itself f
 it for purpose for the 21st century and whether it will.Meet our speaker a
 nd chairAndrew Lownie was educated at Magdalene College\, Cambridge\, wher
 e he was President of the Union\, before taking his doctorate at the Unive
 rsity of Edinburgh. He later returned to Cambridge as a bye-fellow at Chur
 chill College. He is presently Visiting Professor at the Ulster Literary B
 iography Research Centre and Senior Research Fellow in Modern British Hist
 ory at the University of Buckingham. His books include the prize-winning S
 talin’s Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess\, the top ten Sunday Times 
 bestsellers The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves and Traitor King: The 
 Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and most recently the 
 no 1 Sunday Times bestseller Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of Y
 ork.Simon Glendinning is Head of the European Institute and Professor in E
 uropean Philosophy at LSE.More about this eventThe Maurice Fraser Lecture 
 is the European Institute's annual public lecture series\, established in 
 honour of Professor Maurice Fraser\, former Head of the European Institute
 . A distinguished scholar of European politics and former Special Adviser 
 to the UK Government on European affairs\, Maurice Fraser played a key rol
 e in shaping the Institute's development and establishing its reputation a
 s a leading centre for the study of Europe. The lecture celebrates his con
 tribution to academic and public debate by bringing leading figures from p
 olitics\, policymaking\, academia and public life to LSE\, fostering discu
 ssion on the major issues shaping Europe and its place in the world.Establ
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