“There was zero conversation at the time about: are there ethical or moral issues involved in this?”įast-forward three decades and Sam McAlister, a guest booker on Newsnight, receives an email from a PR company offering an interview with Prince Andrew about his charity work. “It was a badge of honour then – the idea of this young prince cutting a swathe through the aristocratic women of London was something to be admired,” says James Goldston, former president of ABC News and one of the documentary’s producers. Andrew shrugs it off with remarkably easy charm and humour. He is also known as Randy Andy, a nickname referenced by his interviewer on this occasion, a giggling Selina Scott.
It’s 1985 and the prince is primarily known as a pin-up, playboy and the Falklands hero who risked his life for his country.
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But Andrew: The Problem Prince kicks off with an entirely different TV appearance. But how on Earth did it happen in the first place?Ī new documentary, airing as part of Channel 4’s alternative coronation coverage, is lifting the lid on this remarkably misguided interview. Greeted with a riot of disbelief, anger and meme-making by the public, it was the most explosive royal interview of the decade. Prince Andrew’s 2019 Newsnight interview was a bonanza of bizarre excuses – in which he disastrously tried to defend himself from allegations that he had sex with a 17-year-old girl trafficked by his friend Jeffrey Epstein.
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