Emily Maitlis’s interview was unmissable limo-crash television, but Gillian Anderson’s Maggie Thatcher-lite performance and an underused Rufus Sewell add little
ere is a laboriously acted and distinctly self-admiring, self-mythologising drama about the media, the royals and the media royals. It is all about, challenging him about being friends with sex trafficker and abuser Jeffrey Epstein.
Rufus Sewell in heavy prosthetic makeup plays the pompous HRH, a puffy-faced babyish poltroon whose smug smile is that of someone accustomed to having his every lame or boorish joke greeted with gales of laughter, and every boneheaded observation rewarded with a solemn courtier’s nod. But that normally estimable performergoes into a peculiar Maggie Thatcher-lite mode to play Maitlis – all gimlet-eyed forensic alertness and unrelaxed eccentricity as she brings her dog into the office.
The big moment happens – interestingly – off camera, when Andrew asks “mummy” if he should do the interview, and returns with the news that Her Majesty “trusts his judgment” – the Queen evidently joining Amanda Thirsk among the indulgent women in Andrew’s life who made that calamitous mistake.
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