Prince Andrew's overconfidence triggered his disastrous interview with Emily Maitlis, new documentary claims
The Duke of York had tried to put his defence out against his accuser Virginia Giuffre, whose claims he vehemently denies, and distance himself from his former friend, the disgraced paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
In an ITVX documentary called The Real Crown, Conservative peer Lord Patten said: "He thought he was capable of getting away with some answer which inevitably turns around and hits him over the head.Andrew's Newsnight interview was seen as a disaster.The duke's past role as a kind of trade envoy has also been savaged in the series, which will stream from April 20.
"We were shocked when a 6ft ironing board was trying to be negotiated into one of the embassy cars. I just could not believe that he was bringing an ironing board with him. "I thought initially when he went off-message at meetings that it was an aberration until I found that the same thing had happened at every mission, Oman, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Doha, Qatar.
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