Gillian Anderson on ‘Scoop’ and the Women Who Brought Down Prince Andrew

For those who don’t follow the British royal family’s every move, a refresher: In 2019, Prince Andrew sat for a televised interview with Emily Maitlis of the BBC to discuss his longtime friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who had recently killed himself in prison. The hour-long “Newsnight” broadcast turned out to be the undoing of the man dubbed “Randy Andy” by the tabloids.

In answers that alternated between bizarre and shocking, the Duke of York claimed a medical inability to sweat due to his service in the Falklands War; contended that a photo of him with a woman who testified that Epstein trafficked her to Andrew when she was 17 was possibly a fake; and proclaimed he did not regret his association with Epstein because he made many “useful” contacts through him.