Inside Prince Andrew’s lonely life as new TV drama raises fresh Jeffrey Epstein questions

Prince Andrew faces further humiliation after a new TV drama raises fresh questions over his relationship with a convicted paedophile that led to his exile from the royal family.

The disgraced Duke of York was forced to step back from royal duties after a disastrous interview with BBC Newsnight in 2019, which delved into his toxic friendship with the late billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein.

A new three part series released on Thursday on Amazon Prime, titled A Very Royal Scandal, revisits tawdry allegations that Andrew, 64, had sex with 17-year-old Virginia Giuffre who was trafficked around the world by Epstein and his lover Ghislaine Maxwell.

Sources close to the prince said he was “resigned” to the fact he will never return to public life, with his reputation in tatters, and was bracing himself for further ignominy.

The programme, with award winning actor Michael Sheen as the prince and Ruth Wilson as former BBC journalist Emily Maitlis, who acts as executive producer on the project, presents the duke as arrogant and entitled while surrounding himself with clueless palace aides which led to his downfall.

A source said: “He (the Duke) knows there is no way back for him, even before this latest indignity. The public made their mind up long ago and even his own family have an arm’s length relationship with him. It really is all over for him.”

The latest Amazon instalment on the Duke of York’s fall from grace follows the Netflix movie ‘Scoop’, released in March starring Rufus Sewell as the prince and Gillian Anderson as Emily Maitlis.