Inevitably, there will be comparisons with the recent Netflix film Scoop, about the same 2019 interview.
Rufus Sewell said his interpretation of the prince owed something to David Brent, the deluded manager from BBC Two’s The Office sitcom.
In this Amazon Prime Video version, Sheen’s Prince Andrew is a more complex figure, self-seeking, emotionally deaf, ambitious, loyal to his own immediate family, distrustful of palace officials and with a desperate need for approval.
It is a performance where Richard III meets Alan Partridge.
When he hears sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has died in prison, the prince’s reaction is to ask: “Is this good for me or bad?”
And there’s a relentless tension between him and his brother, the then Prince of Wales.
“Calls me a mummy’s boy, he’s the mummy’s boy,” Prince Andrew screams, with plenty of very strong swearing added, after an angry phone call.