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Prince Andrew disgraced family with ‘most serious’ part of interview – one royal is not happy about drama, expert says
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PRINCE Andrew embarrassed his family with the "most serious" part of his trainwreck Newsnight interview, a royal expert claims.
And now that disgraceful moment has been immortalised in Netflix's new film Scoop - which hit screens this morning.
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The new show, which stars Rufus Sewell and Gillian Anderson, tracks Andrew's disastrous Newsnight interview with the BBC's Emily Maitlis in November 2019.
During the notorious sit down, Andrew told Maitlis that he could not have had sex with 17-year-old Virginia Giuffre because, on the day she alleged it happened, he was at Pizza Express in Woking for a kids’ party with daughter Beatrice.
He also insisted that he could not have “sweated profusely”, as was claimed, due to a medical condition he said he developed while serving in the Falklands War as a Navy helicopter pilot.
Andrew also defended his relationship with Epstein, saying that knowing the financier had "some seriously beneficial outcomes", but added that his reason for meeting him in 2010 was to "put an end to the friendship".
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And Royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams claimed this was the "most serious" part of the entire interview.
And there's one member of the firm who it's said to have hit extra hard, the commentator said.
Richard told The Sun: "A serious, serious part of it, of course, was the fact that he expressed absolutely no remorse for the victims of Epstein.
"When asked if he regretted his association with the deceased Peter Jeffrey Epstein. He answered that he didn't.
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"He met such interesting people. He'd forgotten that he'd lost his job special representative of British trade because of his friendship with Epstein.
"This will be very embarrassing, and it won't be helpful for the Royal Family."
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The expert said he'd heard there was one royal close to Andrew who was "not happy" about the film - and that was one of his daughters.
Richard continued: "The reports are that Princess Beatrice is certainly not happy with it, apparently she features.
"And maybe it will tell us a bit more about what, if anything, she had to do with it?"
The Duke of York broke cover just hours after the film started streaming.
He smirked as he rode a horse near Windsor Castle, waving at people has he made his way around the grounds.
Expert Richard had previously revealed Andrew's "terrifying" trait would be exposed in the show.
Andrew seen sweating & partying despite bizarre Newsnight claims
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PRINCE Andrew infamously claimed he couldn't sweat and rarely "partied" in his car-crash Newsnight interview - now immortalised by Netflix.
But photos appear to paint a very different picture of the Duke of York's younger days, when he was branded The Playboy Prince.
The nation cringed as they watched Andrew offer bizarre defences to questions put to him by then BBC Newsnight host Emily Maitlis in 2019.
Asked about Virginia Giuffre's claims he was "sweating profusely" when they are said to have danced together at Tramp nightclub in London, the royal said he had a "peculiar medical condition".
That condition, he claimed, meant he "didn't sweat at the time".
His accuser Giuffre claims she danced with the Duke before going back to Ghislaine Maxwell's house on the night of March 10, 2001.
It was there that the notorious photo of the late Queen's favourite son with his arm around the 17-year-old Virginia was taken, as Ghislaine watched on.
Giuffre claims Jeffrey Epstein paid her around £8,000 after she had sex with Andrew.
He also famously claimed he could not have been at Tramps that night as he was at Pizza Express in Woking, Surrey.
In another cringe-worthy moment in the Newsnight interview - dramatised in the new Netflix film Scoop - Andrew claimed he rarely "partied" and wasn't a fan of public displays of affection.
But he was often snapped with his arms around glamorous women back in the day - including Heidi Klum and Chris Von Aspen.
Click here to see seven times the Prince was seen sweating and partying - despite his claims.
He said: "He has this terrifyingly entitled streak... and I think you'll find millions tuning in again to see a depiction of it."
Richard said the public would also be reminded of "how horrendous" the Newsnight interview truly was.
He added: "Scoop is part of Netflix, and I think you'll find a lot of people, I think they'll watch it on Friday, because there's been so much publicity.
"I think it will be very harmful."
The Duke had sat down with Maitlis for a wide-ranging interview, and discussed his relationship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
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Sam McAlister, who produced and arranged the TV chat, had previously said that she had to "set my face to frozen throughout", and there were several occasions where she "couldn't believe" what she was hearing.
“It quickly became clear that Andrew was performing a masterclass on how to destroy your own life. And it was also clear that he thought it was going swimmingly," she said.
Andrew's infamous Newsnight interview
PRINCE Andrew's painful Newsnight interview in November 2019 saw him grilled over his links with dead paedo Jeffrey Epstein, his pal Ghislaine Maxwell and allegations he had sex with a 17-year-old.
During the interview, Andrew said he had "no recollection" of meeting Virginia Giuffre - who he is alleged to have had sex with at Maxwell's house in London.
He even provided an "alibi" claiming that the night the alleged encounter took place he was at a Pizza Express birthday party in Woking with his daughter Princess Beatrice.
Epstein committed suicide in a jail cell in August 2019, just a month after he was arrested for sex trafficking minors.
A flood of horrific accounts of his abuse of young girls then followed.
In 2022, socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was jailed for 20 years for abusing and grooming dozens of girls for twisted Epstein.
The convicted sex trafficker and Andrew would allegedly flirt with each other when they hung out together on Epstein's notorious Caribbean island Little St James, the former housekeeper has claimed.
After Maxwell's sentence, the Duke of York was said to be the lawyers' "next target" of a probe into the sex ring controlled by multimillionaire paedophile Epstein.
The Duke agreed to a £12million settlement with sex abuse accuser Virginia Giuffre in February 2022.
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