November 2019 may be just over four years ago, but in the world of the royal family, it seems like a lifetime has passed since then. Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth were still alive. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were still working members of the royal family (though not for much longer). There were no health scares that we knew of, and even Prince Andrew was still in the mix. Then came his disastrous BBC Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis.
Recorded inside the Blue Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace, Andrew opened up about his connection to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for the first time, as well as addressed allegations that he had sex with Virginia Giuffre Roberts when she was 17. In the sit-down, Andrew said he had “no recollection of ever meeting” her and, after Maitlis brought up a photo showing Andrew with his arm around Giuffre’s waist, Andrew said “I have absolutely no memory of that photograph ever being taken.”
