From his inaugural 'f*** off' to a hapless flunkey, the latest TV retelling of Prince Andrew's catastrophic Newsnight interview is a brutal portrait of the disgraced Duke.
A Very Royal Scandal shines an uncomfortable spotlight on a time the Royal Family would prefer to forget.
From his inaugural ‘f*** off’ to a hapless flunkey the latest TV retelling of Prince Andrew’s catastrophic Newsnight interview is a brutal portrait of the disgraced Duke In A Very Royal Scandal Andrew boasts that his mother calls him ‘the Palace entrepreneur’. That was most definitely replicated in real life: in a humiliating 2017 interview with The Sunday Times he once boasted of being an ‘ideas factory’ and the Palace’s ‘entrepreneur in residence’.
Relieved that he had made all his planned points – including his remarkable claim that he couldn’t have met his accuser, Virginia Giuffre, because he was at Pizza Express with his daughter – the Prince simply had no comprehension of how badly it had gone. The King, however, has famously never owned a mobile – he’s a technophobe who only uses a landline – which allows staff to screen his calls.
Which has come as rather a shock to former colleagues of Mrs Thirsk, who point out she was actually a whip-thin ‘ice maiden’ who was Andrew’s de facto chief of staff. Others remember her more charitably. A friend said: ‘Her husband sadly died young and she worked hard to bring up her three girls as a single mother. It wasn’t easy. She had a lot of adversity to deal with.’
Wrongly convinced that the infamous picture of Andrew with a young Virginia Giuffre had been faked, she employed her own experts to try to prove it. And she was instrumental in setting up his BBC interview, secretly meeting with the Newsnight team at Buckingham Palace and negotiating with the broadcaster before getting Andrew on board and presenting it as a fait accompli to senior courtiers.
As the programme depicts, Mrs Thirsk was forced to quit her job as private secretary, although she continued to work for Pitch At Palace until the following year. The late Queen's Private Secretary Sir Edward Young in 2021. In the new series he is portrayed by Alex Jennings, who previously played Prince Charles in The Queen and Edward VIII in Netflix's The Crown
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