Prince Andrew Sat Down For An Interview With The BBC
Prince Andrew must have hired the band The Spin Doctors on accident instead of a real PR film (he probably saw Two Princes on their resume and assumed it meant they had experience representing royalty), because whoever it was The Palace hired has been doing a piss poor job of making a convincing argument that Andrew’s friendship with prematurely (debatable) deceased (undebatable) pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, was based on anything other than a shared love for underage girls. Nobody’s buying it. So The Palace has taken extraordinary measures to address the situation. Andrew agreed to sit for a “no holds barred” interview with BBC Newsnight regarding his relationship with Epstein, which will air on Saturday.
According to The Guardian, the interview is a result of six months of negotiations between the network and The Palace. I guess those previous statements The Palace released were just Andrew sticking his chubby (debatable) fingers in the dike.
Newsnight sources said the interview was a result of six months of negotiations with the royal household, with an agreement that there would not be any advance vetting of the questions.
The interview was conducted on Thursday at Buckingham Palace and the BBC has decided to broadcast a special edition of the show at 9pm on Saturday. It was conducted by the lead Newsnight presenter, Emily Maitlis, who promised it would be “no holds barred”.
The palace has until now relied on issuing strongly worded press statements, while some newspapers have reported “sources close to Prince Andrew” as saying that a photo of him with Giuffre was fake because his fingers were “much chubbier” in real life.
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: In a #Newsnight @BBCTwo interview recorded yesterday at Buckingham Palace, Emily Maitlis talks to Prince Andrew about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein – the first time he’s answered questions on the scandal
Saturday 21:00 @BBCTwo @maitlis pic.twitter.com/PsVaBd79PV
— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) November 15, 2019
Meanwhile, The Palace is concentrating on more pressing matters. How could this sweet innocent baby boy be anything other than unimpeachable.
Happy Birthday to The Prince of Wales!
To mark HRH’s 71st Birthday, here’s photo from 1960 of the then Prince Charles holding a baby Prince Andrew.#HappyBirthdayHRH🎉 pic.twitter.com/scrYVHrJst
— The Duke of York (@TheDukeOfYork) November 14, 2019
Is this your future king?! Unless he’s being interviewed by Scotland Yard or MI6 or some other legal authority I’ve heard of in movies and TV, it’s all for optics anyway. I don’t think anybody is expecting Andrew to actually say anything that will incriminate himself. But you never know! Maybe Emily Maitlis is on a group chat with Gayle King who’s been helping her lay the perfect trap. Or maybe, Andrew will need to use the bathroom, forget he’s still miked and mutter to himself as he’s washing his hands, “I did it, I fucked them all.”
Pic: BBC