It was the scoop of the decade, a history-making interview that brought an abrupt halt to the Duke of York’s royal career.
But just who was the ‘mastermind’ behind securing the car-crash chat with Prince Andrew on Newsnight in November 2019. The answer has seemed to have led to frostiness between journalist Emily Maitlis and ex-BBC producer Sam McAlister.
Their story is explored in Netflix’s Scoop, released today, which dramatises the behind-the-scenes action in the build up to the interview,
For years, Prince Andrew has been fighting to rebuild his image, first because of his relationship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and then after his car-crash Newsnight interview.
Netflix’s film Scoop, about his Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis and based on the book by ex-BBC producer Sam McAlister, came out yesterday.
Andrew was pilloried for his TV performance because of a lack of contrition for his friendship with the paedophile and his failure to express sympathy for the dozens of women
The King’s body language as he attended the Easter Sunday service at St George’s Chapel Windsor this morning showed he was delighted to be back in the company of his people, claims a leading body language expert.
The monarch displayed many of his trademark expressions, present throughout his royal life, during his first formal outing since his cancer diagnosis, including his ‘comedy mouth’ and pointing gestures.
Expert Judi James told MailOnline that there was also a reluctance to leave the
The Waleses and Tindalls are known to have a close relationship with one another, perhaps especially since Prince Harry and Meghan Markle moved to the US – and that was on clear display on Christmas Day.
Members of the Royal Family, including the Prince and Princess of Wales, their children, and Mike and Zara Tindall, attended the Sandringham church service.
Prince Louis, five, sweetly held hands with his second cousin Mia Tindall, nine, as he made his way to St
Cousins Princess Charlotte and Mia Tindall shone as the next generation of helpful royals, lending a hand to the Princess of Wales by taking flowers from her as she greeted crowds.
Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson also joked with crowds after the service at Sandringham,
‘Thank you so much, that’s very sweet of you,’ the Princess of Wales told one well wisher, as she followed the king out.
She then told dozens of royal fans a ‘merry Christmas’,
I’m going to miss The Crown. At its best, it has been alternately soothing, nostalgic, and educational, and even at its worst, it has always been well acted and gorgeous.
Unfortunately, the second half of the sixth and final season is very much The Crown at its worst. These six episodes, released yesterday on Netflix, are an unfocused canter around the paddock of the late 1990s and early 2000s: Prince William turns 18, Prince Charles finally makes an honest
King Charles III has never looked up to his younger brother Prince Andrew, according to a royal expert.
“The king was never a great admirer of Andrew, even in the palmy days,” royal correspondent Michael Cole told Sky News Australia this week.
“At one stage, the King wanted him to move out to the lesser Frogmore Cottage.”
The journalist added that there’s “not a great deal of love lost” between the monarch and the Duke of York since a bitter
The Queen’s decision to strip Prince Andrew of his HRH and military titles following his settlement of a lawsuit over alleged sexual abuse was her ‘final gesture of self-sacrifice’, a documentary has claimed.
The late monarch, who died in September 2022, made the decision the previous January after the Duke of York, 63, was accused by Virginia Giuffre of sexual abuse relating to his associations with Jeffrey Epstein.
Episode five of Inside the House of Windsor, which airs on Thursday
While Meghan Markle may have fallen out with Fergie and be besties with Eugenie, there is one royal in the York family who is definitively stuck in the middle.
Princess Beatrice, 34, is notoriously private and, unlike her younger sister or mother, has never offered comment on the romance between her cousin Prince Harry and the Duchess of Sussex.
The royal mother-of-one has plenty of mutual friends with the former actress, including joint-BFF Misha Nonoo – while the two women
Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis will star in the King’s Coronation procession at Westminster Abbey on May 6, reports suggested.
The Prince of Wales’s children are expected to join their parents in a carriage behind Charles and Camilla, who will be in the Gold State Coach, according to rehearsal documents seen by The Times.
Harry and Meghan still have not officially indicated whether they will attend the Coronation. Even so, staff are making plans so that Prince Archie
