Prince Andrew faces movie exploring his fall from grace

Prince Andrew’s fall from grace is to be was a significant documentary by a movie firm working carefully with Netflix.

The Mail on Sunday understands the movie will discover the Duke of York’s ‘character arc’ from a ‘struggle hero’ and the ‘Queen’s favorite’ to the scandal over his shut friendship with paedophile intercourse trafficker Jeffrey Epstein which led to his departure from royal duties in 2019.

The programme is being made by the award-winning manufacturing firm Sandpaper Films, which is understood for working with prime streaming providers Netflix, Apple and Amazon.

Sandpaper has already made a number of movies concerning the Royal Family together with the 2017 movie ‘Diana, 7 days’, which analysed her last days and featured interviews with Prince William and Prince Harry.

Other productions tackled the struggle crimes trial of genocidal Bosnian Serb navy chief Ratko Mladic and, the 2012 Rochdale intercourse trafficking ring.

The Mail on Sunday understands the movie will discover the Duke of York’s ‘character arc’ from a ‘struggle hero’ and the ‘Queen’s favorite’ to the scandal over his shut friendship with paedophile intercourse trafficker Jeffrey Epstein which led to his departure from royal duties in 2019

The notorious image of Prince Andrew and Virginia Roberts, aged 17, at Ghislaine Maxwell’s townhouse in London

Producers are stated to be eager to method Andrew’s former non-public secretary Alistair Watson, who labored for the Duke between 2003 to 2012

Producers are stated to be eager to method Andrew’s former non-public secretary Alistair Watson, who labored for the Duke between 2003 to 2012. If he cooperated, insiders say this may very well be ‘unhealthy information’ for the Duke as Mr Watson ‘is aware of the place the our bodies are buried’.

Mr Watson was employed to assist the Duke in his place as UK commerce envoy, the place he represented the federal government all over the world after leaving the Royal Navy in 2001.

The Duke confronted a collection of controversies within the function, together with claims he went on vacation with a Libyan gun smuggler. Andrew stop the function in 2011 after tales broke about him visiting convicted peadophile Epstein at his house in New York after he was launched from jail.

Respected writer Andrew Lownie, who has written best-selling biographies of Lord Mountbatten and the Duke of Windsor, is known to be performing as a guide for the documentary.

He can be writing a biography of Prince Andrew and his former spouse Sarah Ferguson that may look carefully on the Duke of York’s time as commerce envoy.

Respected writer Andrew Lownie, who has written best-selling biographies of Lord Mountbatten and the Duke of Windsor, is known to be performing as a guide for the documentary

The palace is already braced for 2 forthcoming tv dramas that may recreate the Newsnight interview. Netflix’s movie Scoop completed filming final yr and Amazon Prime’s A Very Royal Scandal is known to be only a few months behind

Last night time, Mr Lownie instructed the MoS he believes this era continues to be ‘murky’ on account of authorities paperwork being stored secret till 2065.

‘I feel there are a variety of unanswered questions,’ he stated.

It is known that the brand new documentary won’t be ‘sensationalist’ nor focus solely on the Duke’s disastrous Newsnight interview in 2019.

Nevertheless, information of the movie will additional diminish hopes throughout the palace that the furore round Prince Andrew, who has all the time denied any wrongdoing, would possibly fade from public creativeness.

The palace is already braced for 2 forthcoming tv dramas that may recreate the Newsnight interview. Netflix’s movie Scoop completed filming final yr and Amazon Prime’s A Very Royal Scandal is known to be only a few months behind.

It follows a tough begin to the yr for the Duke after newly-released courtroom paperwork launched within the US alleged that Andrew had an orgy with underage women and touched a girl’s breast whereas posing with a puppet of himself.

The controversy heaped stress on King Charles to evict his brother from Royal Lodge in Windsor, the 30-room property the place he lives along with his ex-wife Sarah, who final week revealed she has pores and skin most cancers.

Sandpaper Films didn’t reply to a request for remark.