In A Very Royal Scandal, we saw that Princess Beatrice, the older daughter of Prince Andrew, unexpectedly attended the pre-meet where Prince Andrew met the BBC Newsnight team to get an idea of the kind of questions they were going to ask. Neither Emily Maitlis nor Sam McAlister had ever imagined that they would have to discuss the case of sexual assault against the Prince in front of his own daughter. But nonetheless, she was in the room, and that’s when the BBC team realized that apart from Amanda Thirsk, Andrew’s secretary, even Beatrice played a key role in deciding whether her father should do the interview or not. In real life too, Beatrice did attend the meeting, and she was in fact hugely disappointed and distressed after the interview aired on November 16th, 2019. But before discussing the kind of impact the backlash had on Princess Beatrice, let…
