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A Very Royal Scandal Series-Premiere Recap: I’ve Been to War
Besides jogging our memories of the bombshell interview to come, the premiere works hard to draw parallels between Emily Maitlis and Prince Andrew.
In November 2019, after years of rumors surrounding his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — and accusations that he had sex with the 17-year-old alleged trafficking victim Virginia Giuffre — rose to new prominence after the disgraced financier’s death, Prince Andrew decided to clear the air. And so the episode begins in the moments just before the famous interview takes place, a frantic affair indeed: Maitlis, late to the sit-down that will shoot her into the stratosphere, heaving bags of spare clothes in case of a last-minute wardrobe malfunction, rushes into Buckingham Palace. The effect is to humanize Andrew, and it’s notable in the first episode that Sheen’s performance does not betray a sense of whether the actor thinks his subject is guilty; perhaps it would be easy to portray him as an odious ogre, but in these scenes, he’s just an embarrassing dad (who happens to be the son of the then-sitting monarch, but y’know).
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