It could well be dubbed The Queen's "Andrew Horribilis", the night her "favourite" son unwittingly lit the touch paper to the end of his career as a working royal in a TV appearance that will certainly go down in the history books and caused seismic damage to the monarchy.
Sitting 15 feet behind Prince Andrew in a room in Buckingham Palace as the cameras rolled was the woman who set it all up: the whip-smart, uncompromising Sam McAlister, producer for BBC's Newsnight current affairs show.
