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One of the oldest titles
in the British Royal Family is

the Duke of York -

traditionally given to the second
son of the ruling monarch.

Being the younger son, being
the spare is a really difficult

role, there is no job spec.

Throughout its 600-year history,

the House of York has had more
than its fair share of scandal.

Dukes of York are ripe
for scandal.

There are always going to be
pitfalls, of course you have all the

perks and privileges of being royal
and none of the responsibility.

Some very formidable characters
in our island's history have

been Dukes of York.

There's the infamous story
of the princes in the tower who were

allegedly murdered by their uncle,
Richard III.

But now the current Duke of York,
Prince Andrew, is facing scrutiny.

As the second son, Andrew
spent his childhood and of course

his adult life, he has spent
in the shadow of his older brother.

A bit naive, but then his judgment
had always been a bit naive.

Did you have to go by private
jet to Newcastle?

Yeah, because there was no other
way of getting there and back.

A naval officer
and celebrated war hero...

When there are missiles
and things flying around,

at that precise moment
you are on your own.

I don't call it escapism at all,
James Bond is escapism.

And I'm not a Commander yet.

A playboy Prince once
second in line to the throne.

I think he was always seen as
Prince Charles said, as the handsome

one, bit of a favourite
of the Queen, he had a good life.

He had all the privilege with
none of the responsibility.

Now caught up in a story that has
shocked the world.

I think it's fair to say that this
is a scandal of an entirely

different nature.

This is by far the most
damaging of allegations.

Poor old Prince Andrew,

he rarely seems to be
out of the papers these days.

Prince Andrew, are you going to
resign, Prince Andrew?
Are you an embarrassment, sir?

What impact will
the current Duke of York

have on the future of the monarchy?

He's never been far away
from controversy, but his connection

with Epstein, that ill-fated
friendship has inflicted the

greatest damage on his reputation
as a member of the Royal Family.

What will this latest scandal
mean for the House of York?

Within the Royal House of Windsor,
there are several different

titles, traditionally
bestowed by the monarch.

Wales, Cambridge, Sussex and York.

The Duke of York, it's a
very noble title,

it's traditionally given to the
sovereign's second son.

Prince Andrew is
the 11th Duke of York,

and he's now at the centre
of a media frenzy

following the suicide of disgraced
financier, Jeffrey Epstein.

And there is an old saying
out there that says,

tell me who your friends are,
and I'll tell you who you are.

Prince Andrew certainly isn't
the first Duke of York to

be at the centre of controversy.

When one looks at second
sons of monarchs,

is that they are sort of, they're
a heartbeat away if you like,
from the top role, the top job.

Dukes of York have over
the course of history

been rather colourful characters.

The title Duke of York
goes back to the

creation of the House of York
in 1385, by Edmund of Langley.

For over 80 years the title was
passed down through the male

heirs, until the House of York
became a Royal household.

In 1461, during the War
of the Roses, Edward, Duke of York

seized the British throne and became
King Edward IV of England.

He gave the title Duke of York
to his second son, Richard.

A tradition that has
continued to this day.

The first second son to have that
title was Richard, Duke of York.

And Richard, Duke of York was right
bang in the middle of the Wars

of the Roses at that time when the
Houses of York and Lancaster both

which had claims to throne, were
basically fighting for the throne.

But Richard's life would be
a short one after

he disappeared in mysterious
and macabre circumstances.

There's the infamous story
of the princes in the tower who were

allegedly murdered by their uncle,
Richard III,

the king in the car park,
as many people know him.

And allegedly
he killed his nephews in the tower

because he wanted to be king
himself.

The story goes that the
nine-year-old Duke of York,
Richard,

and his older brother, Edward,
were locked away in the Tower

of London as part of a villainous
scheme to claim the throne.

Their bodies were never found.

History holds that their bones are
there in the Tower

of London.

With no male heir, the Duke of York
title went into extinction

with nine-year-old Richard's death.

But just over a decade later,
after a shift in the monarchy,

the title was given to the next
second son in line to the

throne - a certain Henry Tudor.

Infamous Henry VIII of course was
also a second son,

he was the second son of Henry the
VII, he wasn't supposed to be king.

But when his brother,
Prince Arthur died, he not only

married his former brother's wife,
but he also became king.

Arguably one of the most notable
Duke of Yorks to become King

is Prince Andrew's grandfather.

Some very formidable characters
in our island's history have

been Dukes of York.

But perhaps the most significant,

the one immediately before
Prince Andrew, was King George VI.

The Queen's much-loved
father on whom

she pretty much has based
her entire reign.

So, she holds that position
extremely dear to her.

The Duke and Duchess of York
with their little daughters,
arrive in the first carriage.

And Princess Elizabeth lingers
on the steps to take stock of the
scene.

The abdication of Edward in 1936,
paved the way for Albert,

the Queen's father, to give
up his title as the Duke of York,

and become King George VI.

When the Duke of York realised
that he was going to have to become

king, he broke down and cried.

He said, "I don't know
anything about it."

"I haven't trained to do this job."

And you certainly do need
training to do that job.

To be placed in the position
of having to choose between love

and the throne is one of life's
most tragic dilemmas.

Even if the dilemma
is of the King's own making.

It's one of the most pivotal moments
in the history of the British
monarchy.

Princess Elizabeth is the daughter
of the Duke of York.

Yes, she probably would have
been a working Royal,

but her whole destiny was changed.

And in fact the history of the
British Royal Family was changed.

Over time the Duke of York role has
become known as the spare heir.

Being the younger son, being
the spare is a really difficult

role, there is no job spec for it.

There are always going to be
pitfalls, of course you have all the

perks and privileges of being royal
and none of the responsibility.

The Dukes of York are really ripe
for drama

and almost inevitably going to be
problematic as they try

and find a role for themselves
when they don't actually

have in their sights the big job -
which of course is the crown.

One of those titles that goes
through the ages and you

try not live up to a previous one.

But eventually something comes up
and smacks you in the face.

Prince Andrew would not receive
his official title of Duke of York

until his marriage in 1986.

But from birth
he was in the headlines,

being the first child born to
a reigning monarch, for 103 years.

Prince Andrew had a very
happy childhood,

he came 12 years after
the Prince of Wales was born,

and of course a little bit after
Princess Anne was born.

The third of four children,

it was rumoured that he was
the Queen's favourite.

I suppose some might say that Andrew
was spoilt far more than

Charles was. I think family friends
have certainly told me that he

was, he was the favoured son,
and she had more

time for Andrew, he was her
golden-haired little angel.

It's said this perceived favouritism
led to Andrew developing

certain characteristics.

He was quite cocky
even from a young age

and some might call it boorishness.

He had a reputation as he grew
up at school for being a little

bit self-entitled,
certainly very aware of who he was,

a sense of self-importance.

I think he was always seen, as
Prince Charles said, as the handsome

one, a bit of a favourite of the
Queen, and he had a good life.

You know, he had really
all the privilege with

none of the responsibility.

In 1979 Prince Andrew would find
a role for himself

when he joined the Royal Navy
as a helicopter pilot.

The master is on, SCS,
trims set, lights on.

He wanted to make the Navy
really his career for life,

and he was a diligent young officer
with one or two exceptions.

I mean he has famously said to have
remarked to one senior,

very senior naval officer that
a senior officer could call him

H, being short for HRH.

And the senior officer said,
"And you can call me Sir."

And that again,

it gives you an idea
of what the young Andrew was like.

Basically what I'm here for is to
work the ship up into

aviation, and also myself
back into the deck, and actually

getting back on the deck on a dark
night is quite exciting.

He was a good naval officer,
diligent, hard working.

Three years later, Prince Andrew was
deployed into the heart

of the Falklands War despite Prime
Minister, Margaret Thatcher having

doubts over a young high-profile
Royal going into battle.

He wasn't there as some
sort of figurehead being tucked

away from the action.

He was in the middle of the action,

flying Royal Navy
helicopters as decoys sometimes.

So very brave, very important,

and then clearly a very important
moment in his life.

Harnesses locked tight at the back
please, and...

The ruling monarch's second son
fighting on the front line

captured the headlines.

At the time, you know, the
Queen's second son to be

involved in the military
service in this high-profile war,

the Falklands War that, you know,
was something that the whole

country were very much glued
to their television screens.

I mean this really was quite
something really for a Royal

to be involved in this way.

When the war ended in 1982,

Prince Andrew returned to
Portsmouth aboard HMS Invincible.

And it was a to a hero's welcome.

I don't think anyone will forget
the images of the war hero prince

coming back from the Falklands,
you know,

the golden boy of the Royal Family
with the rose between his teeth.

And being very much hailed
a national hero.

When you lie down on the deck and
that's the moment when there are

missiles and things flying around.

And that's all there is.

At that point his reputation was
probably at its absolute peak,

that was, that was
Andrew's all time high.

The pride which to see how the
British force

actually worked together. This
was absolutely amazing.

It really was.

After the
Falklands War, you know,

he was the golden
boy of the British monarchy.

Upon his return, the Prince's love
life would make front page news.

Andrew was blessed with the best
looks of the young Windsors.

And he liked girls,
and girls seemed to like him.

Most famously he dated beautiful
brunette actress, Koo Stark.

This was all quite titillating

and exciting in terms of who
Andrew was dating.

And I think fuelled that image of
him being a bit of a playboy prince.

For a long time, people thought
they were incredibly well matched,

she was a very sexy girl, she shared
many interests that Andrew had.

And she was sparky,
but she knew how to

behave, if you like, in Royal
circles.

Andrew whisked Koo away to the
Caribbean island of Mustique,

under the alias Mr
and Mrs Cambridge.

She was even given the Royal
seal of approval.

Their relationship was so close that
Andrew introduced her to his mother.

Well, of course that sparked
a frenzy of speculation in the press

that an engagement announcement was
just around the corner.

The Royal romance soon
turned to scandal.

Unfortunately for Andrew
and particularly for Koo,

she had a past.

It turned out that, you know, not
only was she an actress,

but she'd actually appeared in some
pretty risque movies which

really were the death
knell of the relationship.

We'd just embarked on
the Diana years, attitudes towards

the Royal Family were changing,
they were incredibly popular.

They didn't want to do anything
that might jeopardise this reach

they had with the public.

Advisors around the Royal Family
felt that she was

an unsuitable figure for
Andrew to be seen with,

which was a great shame
because I think

they might have made a very
successful team.

Andrew and Koo eventually split up,
and the Prince

went on to have a string
of high-profile relationships.

He definitely had a penchant
for pretty women, I don't think

it necessarily mattered whether
they were brunette or blonde.

The girls fell for him, quite
a number of girls fell for him.

And he had a succession
of girlfriends

and in those days there weren't many
Royals around to write about,

and Andrew was ripe for being
written about.

The media dubbed him "Randy Andy".

I think the playboy image was rather

good for the Royal Family, I think
it gave them a dose

of Hollywood glamour that they were
lacking, and it was quite exciting.

To some extent the reputation,

the sort of playboy prince was
deserved, but you know, in the

same way that you know, young Royal
princes will be young Royal princes.

The press loved this,

you could see that this
was Andrew at his prime.

By the mid 1980s,
despite a reported playboy lifestyle

and front-page headlines

the future Duke of York was a
popular member of the Royal Family.

I think he was brought up to believe
that he was terribly important,

and just for a few brief
years he was.

The hopes were high that actually
despite being the spare to the

heir, he was going to make
a success of this.

How then did he become embroiled
in one of the Royal Family's

biggest sandals?

Prince Andrew, are you resigning?

I think Prince Andrew's friendship
with Jeffrey Epstein has been

one of the most damaging things to
happen to the Royal Family

within the last 30 or 40 years.

Members of the Royal Family are
often given titles upon marriage.

And Prince Andrew was no different.

After marrying Sarah Ferguson
in 1986, his mother, the Queen,

bestowed on him
the title Duke of York.

With the Dukedom came a Royal
salary of around £300,000 a year.

A Royal Duke of York coat of arms
with an emblem made

up of an English lion,
a Scottish unicorn, and anchor.

And a brand-new family home,
Sunninghill Park,

a 12-bedroom mansion in Surrey.

Being the Duke of York,

of course a role that comes with all
the perks and privileges,

life in a palace, a valet, a butler,
his every whim catered for.

I mean Andrew had all of that, a
life of luxury, a life of privilege.

Connected by title rather than
blood, Prince Andrew was now

part of a House and lineage dating
back over 600 years.

But his chapter as the Duke of York
would not be free from scandal.

In 1999 Prince Andrew was
introduced to Jeffrey Epstein.

This acquaintance would go on to
result in one of the House

of York's biggest controversies.

Jeffrey Epstein was
a multimillionaire American

hedge fund manager, who
socialised in the company of rich,

powerful men, and beautiful women.

I think they became friends
very quickly,

Andrew has always been attracted to
rich men and money,

and Epstein was by all accounts
a charismatic fellow.

There's one thing in America that
trumps cash - it's royalty.

Epstein had the cash,
Andrew has the cachet.

And of course Andrew was
a real life prince.

Americans love British Royalty.

In 2008, Jeffrey Epstein was found
guilty of procuring a person

under the age
of 18 for prostitution.

And went on to
serve 13 months in prison.

Prince Andrew's past meetings with
Epstein before he was convicted

were now under intense media
scrutiny.

Andrew would invite him
to Balmoral, you know,

the Queen's private home, Balmoral.

Invited him shooting at Sandringham,
the Queen's private home in Norfolk.

He went to Beatrice's 18th birthday
party at Windsor Castle.

And was really
kind of invited into the heart

of British society.

Many assumed that with Epstein
having spent time behind bars,

the Duke of York would cut
all contact.

What was so staggering was in 2011,
after Epstein had been

released from jail, Andrew was
photographed walking with him.

It was an extraordinary image,

and the whole story and the scandal
if you like, about Andrew and

his questionable taste in friends,
really springs from that photograph.

Andrew felt that he could still
remain on amiable terms with
Epstein.

A bit naive,

but then his judgment has always
been a bit naive.

It was around the time of Epstein's
release that

a photo of the Duke of York
and Virginia Roberts, now Giuffre,

appeared in the world's press.

Although some close to the Prince
claimed it was a fake

and the story went quiet.

Four years later things went from
bad to worse for the Duke of York,

when Virginia Roberts implicated him
in the growing sex scandal.

Virginia Roberts claimed she'd been
essentially recruited as a very

young girl by Epstein, and Prince
Andrew had slept with her three
times.

Prince Andrew strenuously
denied all allegations

and the accusations were later
thrown out of court after

the judge ruled them immaterial
and impertinent.

At the moment these are allegations,
nothing has been proven,

and in this country, you
are innocent until proven guilty.

Nonetheless, allegations of this
nature are incredibly damaging.

Will you recover from this, Sir?

In 2015, with questions still
looming over the Duke of York, he

was forced to address the
accusations during a Royal
engagement.

Firstly, I think I must and want,
for the record, to refer to the

events that have taken
place in the last few weeks.

And I just wish to reiterate
and to reaffirm the statements which

have already been made on my behalf
by Buckingham Palace.

This was one scandal that
would not go away.

In July of 2019,

Jeffrey Epstein was charged with
further counts of sex trafficking.

He committed suicide in his cell
whilst awaiting trial.

With the eyes of the press
back on Epstein and his associates,

Prince Andrew once again became
front page news.

This time it was a video from 2010,

and like the photo in Central Park,
it showed the Duke of York

spending time with Epstein after
the latter's conviction.

A video of Andrew at Epstein's town
house in Manhattan, you know,

where there were lots of comings
and goings with young women.

So the world is saying, how could
he not have known what was going on?

The Duke of York strongly
denied any wrongdoing.

But the press continued to ask
serious questions of him.

Members of the Royal Family
have to be really

careful about the company they keep,
and I think that the main

charge against Andrew is
the company he has kept.

He's guilty of one thing, and that's
poor judgment, of going to see

Epstein after he was convicted.

The ultimate lack of judgment
is having a friendship with

Epstein at all. He sounds like an
evil, you know, dreadful paedophile.

Prince Andrew's accusers were
turning up the heat.

In explosive scenes captured outside
a New York courtroom in the summer

of 2019, Virginia Roberts continued
to accuse the Duke of York.

On the steps of the court,
Virginia Roberts said,

and this is incendiary, said
Andrew knows what he has done.

He knows exactly what he's done
and I hope he comes clean about it.

Thank you.

That's what forced Prince Andrew
into issuing his latest statement.

The Duke of York chose to clarify

the facts around his relationship
with Epstein by issuing a statement.

As well as being
appalled by the alleged crimes,

Prince Andrew claimed that he only
saw Epstein once or twice

a year, and that he did not see,
witness or suspect any behaviour

of the sort that subsequently led
to his arrest and conviction.

I think he was trying to apologise.
It just prolonged the story,

made everything worse,
and it raised a lot more questions.

It does beg the question,

why has it taken him nine years to
respond in the way he has?

The photograph has been around,
and the allegations,

since before 2010, why on Earth
didn't he say something then?

In spite of the negativity
in the press, Her Majesty,

the Queen has continued to
stick by her son.

He assured her of this the first
time round in 2011, and

he assured his mother then that
she had nothing to worry about.

I was told by a source very
close to the family,

he has her full support
and after this news had broken

the Queen was pictured being driven
to church in Scotland with

her second son,
smiling broadly for the cameras.

What better way I suppose,
to send out a very clear signal

and show of support, the Queen was
once again standing by her son.

It certainly isn't the first time
that the Queen's second son has

had questions asked of him
by the world's media.

I think in Royal circles there's
a bit of a despairing

and wringing of their hands,

because this wasn't just
a one-off, there has been

so many questionable decisions that
Andrew has made and there's a

sense of, for goodness' sake, when
were you going to wise up?

The comments that are made
about an extravagant lifestyle

and so forth, is that fair?

What is
an extravagant lifestyle?

Travelling by private jet?

In 2019, the Duke of York, Prince
Andrew, hit the headlines

following the suicide of convicted
paedophile, Jeffrey Epstein.

His association with Epstein was
another controversy to

add to the growing list that has
plagued the House of York.

Prince Andrew's not the first
Duke of York to be mired

in controversy, but I certainly
think the Epstein allegations

are perhaps some of the more serious
in the history of Dukes of York.

But this latest scandal isn't Prince
Andrew's first brush with the press.

In 2001, Prince Andrew stepped down
from his military position in the

Navy to take on a parliamentary
role as the British trade
ambassador.

There was the question of what's
next for the Duke,

and this ticked all of the boxes.

Andrew was determined to make
a success of being trade envoy.

And I think as an ambassador
for Great Britain, certainly

in those early days of that role,
I think he did quite a good job.

I mean he certainly had
pulling power,

you would hear MPs saying that he
was the greatest asset

for Britain in terms of trade and
industry, because frankly you get a

call saying, "Would you like to meet
Prince Andrew the Duke of York?"
"Yes."

Prince Andrew's Royal profile opened
many doors for British trade.

Pretty impressive, 6,000 jobs,
and a billion pounds worth

of investment, I mean that's not
something to be sniffed at, is it?

It isn't, and what's really
encouraging about that is that, is

that that's gone into about 931
starting and scaling businesses, and

97% of those 931 are still operating
today and they're still growing.

But some also feel that the
Duke of York's new job came with

other perks.

Every June, every Royal
Correspondent gets to go to

Buckingham Palace to look through
the royal accounts.

And we all go straight to the
travel document.

Because that's the one
we all understand - how much

the Royal train costs, how much
those private flights are costing.

And year after year
he would be at the top of the list.

Go out on a trade mission either
on a scheduled flight

or in what used to be
known as a Queen's Flight aircraft.

And he'd do the business on behalf
of British Trade International.

And then he'd go off
and get the golf clubs out

of the boot of the plane,
and go off and play golf.

The Duke of York's frequent travel

and mode of transport quickly
garnered him yet another nickname.

Air Miles Andy was a
nickname

which refused to
shift for many, many years.

He was stung by the nickname

because he thought it was slightly
insulting to him, as though

he was just sort of gallivanting
around the world having fun.

Whereas his argument was, look,
he's there on official

business, he's doing what the
Government asked him to do.

One year in particular,

Prince Andrew cost the British
taxpayer over half a million pounds.

This was seen as not on,
and quite frankly it wasn't on,

it's not the sort of things you do.

If you go out and you're there doing
a job of work on behalf

of UK PLC, you do the job of work,
you come home.

If you want to go and play golf,
then you make your own arrangements,

get on an aeroplane and play
for the fare yourself and fly off.

And unfortunately he didn't do that.

The Duke of York agreed to a
one-to-one television interview.

I am not doing this as it were,
for my own good.

I am not getting any
return for this,

this is all
done on behalf of the UK.

It's not done on my behalf.

If I was doing it, I wouldn't,
I wouldn't, as it were,

allocate my time in this way.

Can I ask you as I inevitably must,
about the criticism that is

sometimes, even often,
levelled at you in this job?

The comments that are made
about an extravagant lifestyle

and so forth, is that fair?

What is an extravagant lifestyle?
Travelling by private jet?

Using helicopters
when you could take a train.

But it is, it is again, it is

the maximisation of my time for the
best value for money and that's

the way that... And I'm not
the one that makes those decisions.

In truth, it became quite
a problematic role for Andrew.

I think he frequently found himself
having to defend himself,

having to defend the flights
that he was racking up.

That became an issue.
That became more of the story

than Andrew representing Britain
overseas.

And that was a problem.

Did you have to go
by private jet to Newcastle?

Yeah, because there was no other
way of getting there and back,

bearing in mind from
what I was doing before,

and what I was doing afterwards.

On top of the alleged travel perks,

Andrew continued
to be in the headlines.

Once again it was because of the
company he was keeping.

It was the meeting with the Gaddafis

where I think
eyebrows were raised.

He entertained the ousted
former president of Tunisia

at Buckingham Palace.

The fact that Andrew went out
to foster these questionable
relationships

suggests that perhaps
the allure of money, of wealth,

of all of these offshore billions
was incredibly appealing to Andrew.

He's not good at
picking his associates.

He's not good at picking his...

I won't say friends,
but acquaintances.

Bottom line, he's grown up
in palaces and castles,

he's the son of the Queen, he's
used to a certain sort of lifestyle,

so guess what? He mixes
with people who have that similar

sort of jet-setting lifestyle.

Andrew has perhaps been rather
naive and not really perhaps

understood the kind of, at least the
optics of some of what he has done.

I think Andrew felt that he had
this official role as trade envoy

for the UK government
and was doing a great job.,

He's very thin-skinned,
and he takes any kind of criticism

extremely personally,
and angrily, in fact.

The press continued
to question the Duke's

suitability
for the trade envoy role.

I think the press became less
supportive over the years, I think.

He was on the receiving end of quite
a lot of criticism. Was it unfair?

I would argue not, because I think
some of the decisions Andrew

made were bad decisions.

Some of the business affiliations
were not clever.

It was at this moment,
with huge pressure

mounting on Prince Andrew's job,
that the photo with

Jeffrey Epstein in Central Park
was released,

sealing the Trade Ambassador's fate.

He mixed business with pleasure,

and if you're going to mix
business with pleasure,

be very careful about the pleasure
that you mix with. And he wasn't.

There was MPs who had described
Andrew as the most glittering

asset for Britain overseas.

That was when those MPs
then turned on the Duke and said,

"He's got to go. This is untenable."

In 2011, Prince Andrew stepped down
from his role as Trade Ambassador.

I think that actually he felt
he wasn't guilty of anything,

but it was undermining
his position as a Trade Ambassador

and embarrassing the Queen
and the Queen's government.

And I think he felt it would be best

if he just stepped aside
at that time.

And I think that it probably stopped
the continual

onslaught in the media,
and that's probably what was needed.

How are you today, Sir?

Within the Royal House of York,

it's not just the Duke who has
received negative publicity.

By his side for many years was
the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson,

who was no stranger herself
to scandal and controversy.

Sarah has a very contagious
personality.

Andrew was very much drawn to her.

It was the ultimate Royal fairy
tale in many ways,

and then it all came unstuck.

Prince Andrew has spent most
of his life in the media spotlight.

A celebrated naval officer,
a playboy prince,

and a much talked-about
Trade Ambassador.

He received his official title
from the Queen

and became the eleventh
Duke of York upon marriage.

Fergie and Diana
were very good friends.

And Diana was always trying
to find a boyfriend for Fergie.

And she came up with
the idea of Andrew.

Sarah Ferguson was typical
jolly hockey sticks,

daughter of an army officer,
a polo player.

Skiing all over the Alps
in the winter.

She was always going to be
an interesting addition to

the Royal Family.

And on top of that, she
and Diana got on really well.

Every June,
when attending Royal Ascot,

the Queen has her house party
at Windsor Castle.

And on this occasion Diana invited
Fergie, as she was known,

with her freckles and red hair
and outgoing bubbly humour.

And she and Andrew apparently got on
extremely well, so much so that they

were feeding each other profiteroles
from the dining room table.

It's was at lunch,
wasn't it, that we... Yes.

We were made to sit next
to each other at lunch at Ascot.

Yes, and he made me eat chocolate
profiteroles, which I didn't want.

I then didn't have any,
so I got hit.

The Queen was delighted.

She has always
really enjoyed Fergie's company.

Fergie's a horsewoman, she loves
dogs, she loves country life.

And she's fun, she's...
She's a really special girl,

and the Queen absolutely adored her.

Before long, the couple
had announced their engagement.

Could I ask you, Miss Ferguson,
do you remember what he said?

Absolutely.
But I'm not telling you.

There would have been a sigh
of relief that Randy Andy's

days of hitting
the nightclubs were over.

I mean this was really
the height of popularity

for the Royal Family, the wedding
of Charles and Diana, William

and Harry being born,
and then it was Andrew and Fergie.

Congratulations.

The press were hugely interested
in Andrew and Sarah.

They were tactile, they were loving,
they were everything

that Charles and Diana weren't,
they were a great story.

In 1986, just five months
after becoming engaged,

the pair married
at Westminster Abbey.

Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson
became the Duke and Duchess of York.

I think what was so exciting
for the press during this period

of, of those Royal marriages
was that for the first time

they had the original fab four.

You know, you had Andrew
and Fergie, Charles and Di,

these two very glamorous women, they
were out there on the world stage.

And I think at that period,
you know,

the future was very sunny and
very bright for the Royal Family.

The couple were whisked away
on Royal tours of Canada

and North America, where the
Duchess made quite an impression.

What I remember about that
in particular was that she was

very articulate
and seemed to handle herself well.

I could not go through a whole
tour letting my darling

husband of a year and a day,
do all the public speaking.

So we agreed for once...

that I should have
the last word tonight.

I think Andrew was
very proud of her.

I mean, she complemented
him if you like.

In a way, she rubbed off
some of his rougher edges.

I mean, he was still
a slightly abrasive character.

She was good for him, yeah.

One of the Royal couple's
stops was Hollywood.

I was on the Royal tour
when they were in Los Angeles,

and they were a huge success.
Everybody loved them.

At last I have the turn to talk.

All these men around here...

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Fergie appeared in different
little outfits in her different

bows in her hair,
and it was all quite over the top.

I'm so amazed by Los Angeles and the
welcome that you have given us.

And me.

But, I never forget
that the only reason I'm here

is because I'm married
to the Duke of York.

There was a big reception
and all the sort of LA crowd,

and Fergie and Andrew
really did well there.

In 1990, the couple
had welcomed two children.

Beatrice and Eugenie.

But cracks were beginning to form
in their marriage.

Fergie was finding life
at the Palace extremely difficult.

She was being criticised hugely
at this stage of her life.

She didn't have Prince Andrew
at her side, because he was away

doing his naval duties, so things
just really started to break down.

Captain.

Good evening, sir. A three-zero
range of six miles. I am...

As well as the Royal tours,
Prince Andrew was still serving

as a naval officer, spending more
and more time away from his family.

Captain, roger, yes,
thank you very much.

As a Commanding Officer, you can
on occasions get extremely lonely

and isolated if you're not careful.

It's terrible, I mean, it...

I mean, you're going away,
and leaving what you love behind.

It's a fantastic job,

all three services are
a fantastic job for a single man.

It's getting less and less so
for a married man.

I don't call it escapism at all.

James Bond is escapism,
and I'm not a commander yet.

Sarah was basically
a single mother at home with...

Raising two children, and it put
a huge strain on the relationship.

The couple's marriage
was under intense media scrutiny.

Rumours of affairs
began to circulate in the press.

Fergie was seeing
a man called Steve Wyatt,

and it seemed so soon
after the marriage.

And yet there was already talk

that the marriage
was in great difficulty.

She felt neglected
by her own husband.

She was being given
a really hard time by the press.

I think she was
incredibly vulnerable.

Speculation continued for months,

until the Duke and Duchess of York
were forced to make an announcement.

When Andrew and Sarah announced
their separation in early 1992,

very rapidly she was seen to be
involved with a man who was

euphemistically described
as her financial advisor.

A Royal separation was only
the start of the controversy

for the Duke and Duchess of York.

After now infamous photos of Sarah
Ferguson were released in the media.

I was with John Bryan the night the
pictures appeared in one of the

tabloids newspapers, and I'd gone
to his flat with the Daily Mirror.

And he phoned Fergie, and
I could hear him talking to her,

and, you know, he's saying, "It's
bad, it's worse than we thought."

They'd managed to get
pictures of her on a sunbed,

and she was having her toes sucked
by her financial advisor.

These pictures were compromising,
they were embarrassing,

you know, shameful for Fergie.

Things quickly went from bad
to worse for the Duchess of York.

Poor Fergie, the following day
she had to go down to

breakfast at Balmoral Castle
where all the papers were all

laid out as they always are
every day on a sideboard.

And she had to sit there,

and sort of the humiliation
must have been awful for her.

She fled Balmoral in tears, and she
didn't return for a very long time.

Sarah Ferguson was really cast
to the outer darkness.

It was the final nail in the coffin
for Andrew and Sarah.

The Duke and Duchess of York's
relationship troubles

were publicised the world over.

Combined with other Royal scandals,

1992 would prove to be a year
that would haunt the Queen.

It has turned out to be
an annus horribilis.

I suspect that I'm not alone
in thinking it so.

The 1990s
was a series of disasters,

1992 being the worst year
in terms of Royal break-ups,

three Royal marriages, three of the
Queen's children separated in 1992.

Princess Anne divorced,
Andrew and Fergie separated,

Charles and Diana separated.

Not only were her children's
marriages deteriorating,

but they were being
played out in the press

in the most lavish,
spectacular fashion.

It culminated in that
famous speech that she gave,

in which she described 1992
as her annus horribilis,

a horrible year,
her worst year, if you like.

Four years later, Sarah Ferguson
and Prince Andrew finally divorced.

Although no longer
considered a Royal,

she was allowed to retain
her title as the Duchess of York.

Many thought their separation
would bring an end

to the media frenzy
circulating the House of York.

You know, Diana took millions
from her divorce with Charles.

Fergie took pretty much nothing.

So Fergie is constantly chasing
her tail and running out of money.

And so she goes to more and more
desperate means.

She became a bit of a liability
to Prince Andrew,

and therefore I think he realised,

and certainly the Royal Family
would have realised

that you know, whilst
she still had these debts,

she was a massive liability.

Despite her divorce from
Prince Andrew, in the late 1990s,

Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York,
embarked on an unofficial

tour of the United States.

She got involved with
Weightwatchers, she seemed to be

basically doing anything she could
to earn a living, make some money.

She had huge debts,
she would spill her thoughts,

her emotions in front of
anybody who would listen to her.

She became a kind of darling
on the Oprah Winfrey

kind of circuit in America.

And it, this was
exactly what a Royal,

even a sort of ex-Royal
should not be doing,

and she really did cause
embarrassment to the Royal Family.

Prince Andrew also found himself
back in the headlines after

he sold the marital home,
Sunninghill Park in Surrey.

The 12 bedroom
country residence had been

a gift from Her Majesty, the Queen.

He wanted to get it off his hands,
and it was on the market

and wasn't selling.

And then lo and behold, it was
bought by one of the contacts

he'd made through his travels.

The son-in-law of the
then president of Kazakhstan.

And this generous individual
not only bought the house,

but he bought it for £3 million
more than the asking price.

It provoked
many questions as to why.

The answer has never
satisfactorily been given.

At the time, a spokesman for
Prince Andrew said there was never

any arrangement or impropriety,

and that £12 million was
a guide price, not an asking price.

In 2010, rumours of bankruptcy
for Sarah Ferguson

began circulating in the press.

And the Duchess of York
became part of a huge

sting from the News Of The World,

as seen here
in a secret video recording.

The fake sheikh for The News Of The
World got lots of exclusives.

Filming people agreeing to
stuff or taking money,

and the cash for access story
with Fergie was incredibly damaging.

It was another black mark
against her.

In the video, she is seen
talking to the now discredited fake

sheikh offering access to Prince
Andrew for half a million pounds.

No-one was surprised

when she found herself a victim of
a pretty unpleasant newspaper sting.

And they got her on film
boasting that she could get access

to Prince Andrew in exchange
for half a million pounds.

It was hugely embarrassing
once again for the Royals.

The Duchess of York has said
she was devastated by the News

of the World's sting, and that it
was a serious lapse in judgment.

She also later added
that she felt tricked.

Sarah Ferguson's reported
financial difficulties

would see a return
of Jeffrey Epstein.

In 2011, the Duchess
of York admitted

to accepting £15,000 from Epstein
to help pay off her debts.

One of the other complications
to the story of Epstein

and Andrew, is the fact that
the Duchess of York herself was

acquainted with Epstein,
and indeed he lent her money for

the infamous debts that she had
after her divorce to Andrew.

Epstein was among a number of rich
men who helped to bail her out.

A bad choice,
and I think the Duchess has

since recognised that she should not
have accepted money from him.

Sarah Ferguson later said she had
made a gigantic error of judgment.

It all just is very, very,
very unfortunate, and it's again

this kind of lingering bad taste
that Epstein has brought to

the Royal Family's reputation
in regard to both Andrew and Sarah.

Despite all the controversy,
over the years Prince Andrew

and the Duchess of York
remained close.

What I find remarkable is that,
despite all of the scandal,

you know, the debt,
the controversies,

Andrew and Sarah have remained
the best of friends.

With the whole Epstein affair,
Fergie has absolutely kind of stood

by her man, I think she's the
one who's been in scrapes before,

and Andrew's always stood by her,
he's never thrown her to the wolves.

He's always looked after her
financially, emotionally.

And I think this time she felt able
to repay a lot of that debt.

With the Epstein scandal showing
no signs of disappearing,

and Prince Charles
set to one day take the throne,

what does the future hold
for the Duke of York and his family?

Over the years,

the House of York has been
embroiled in damaging scandals.

None more so than the association

with disgraced financier
Jeffrey Epstein.

I think that Andrew's judgment
is probably clouded

partly by the life
he's led, his upbringing.

He's been protected from the world.

And Royal insiders say
that the whole affair has impacted

Andrew's relationship
with his older brother, Charles,

who as future king
will have ultimate say

over the future of the British
monarchy and Andrew's role.

My understanding from a source
very close to the Prince of Wales

is that when he saw
those pictures of Epstein

and his brother photographed
walking in Central Park,

his advice to his brother was to
leave that relationship well alone.

It was a relationship that I think
had worried Charles from quite

an early stage,
but that picture was,

was really the nail
in the coffin for Charles.

It was when he said to his brother,
"Stay away from this."

But of course, that advice
came a little too late.

Could the scandals
of Prince Andrew lead to

the marginalisation
of the House of York?

There is a battle going on right
now behind the railings of Royal

palaces about the future
size of the British monarchy,

about slimming it down,
about getting rid of the minor

royals from the public funding
and so on.

There was a glimpse
of the new potential

slimmed-down monarchy at
the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012.

The Duke of York and his two
daughters, princesses Beatrice

and Eugenie, were noticeably absent,
further fuelling speculation

that Prince Charles was beginning
to sideline the House of York.

Andrew and his family
not being invited

to appear on the balcony
at Buckingham Palace for the Queen's

jubilee was really significant,
because it was a real statement

of intent by Prince Charles. This
was the future of the Royal Family.

William, Harry, Kate, Charles,
Camilla, the Queen.

Andrew and Eugenie and Beatrice
were nowhere to be seen.

And Andrew very much felt the snub,

but Charles was proclaiming
it very publicly by saying

this is the current monarch,
this is the future monarch

and this is the future of the royal
family in a very, very public way.

And it was like, no Andrew.

It's the magnificent seven
as they then were.

That's Charles's vision
of a modern monarchy.

It's not a balcony
stuffed full of 20 or 30 people.

Andrew's not stupid.
He's noticed that,

and he is absolutely campaigning
for a future role,

a bigger role
for Eugenie and Beatrice.

We'd like to declare
the Teenage Cancer Ward open.

Now, this has provoked
an enormous conflict,

largely between Prince Andrew
and his brother, Prince Charles.

It's Charles who is driving this
idea of a slimmed-down monarchy,

and it has been from Charles's side
of the argument that

Beatrice and Eugenie should perhaps
be pushed out of the limelight.

As well as criticism levelled
at the Duke and Duchess of York,

their daughters,
Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie,

have also over the years
been criticised by the press.

In particular,
their cost to the taxpayer.

As Royal princesses,

they'd had full-time,
wraparound Royal protection.

Royal protection,

armed police officers,
is a very expensive business.

It's a necessity for front-line
members of the Royal Family,

but where the public began
to question the costs involved

in security were particularly
about Beatrice and Eugenie.

The public kicked up and said,
you know, this is ridiculous,

Beatrice is travelling all
over the world on exotic holidays.

Why should we pay police protection?
Which is quite right.

It's like, well,
why are we paying for this

when she's not going to be
a future working Royal?

And so Andrew,
under a lot of public scrutiny,

was forced to pay for it himself.

He was not very happy.

The money was stopped in 2011

to pay for all these protection
officers for both girls,

and then they lost
the sovereign grant,

which meant they would not get money
paid out of the sovereign's purse

because they weren't
going to do Royal duties.

It was decided that the working

members of the Royal Family would
be limited to the four children

of the Queen, and then Charles's
children, the heir's children.

Because it was decided
that we didn't want to have

too big a drain
on the sovereign grant.

But Andrew wanted both his daughters
to be working royals.

I think he wanted a status for them.

You look at the Princess Royal,
she's got two children,

Peter Phillips and Zara Tindall.

Both of them, without titles,
have made their way in life,

quite admirably,
without any hand-outs from anybody,

without any titles,
and it's worked for them.

And if it's worked for them,

then it should work
for Beatrice and Eugenie.

In 2018, Princess Eugenie
married her long-term boyfriend,

Jack Brooksbank, amid all the pomp
and ceremony of a Royal wedding,

the scale of which, many believed,
was Prince Andrew's way

of putting his family
back into the Royal limelight.

There was criticism
over Eugenie's wedding.

It was paid for privately,
and yet, you know, there was still

questions asked over whether
it was absolutely necessary

to have two wedding dresses,
three days of parties.

And I think for the Yorks,
it's hard for them

to escape that sort of controversy
because they have been

known for their exuberant spending
over the years.

Prince Andrew becomes
very grand and Royal,

and he makes things happen.

You want to get married
in St George's chapel?

You'll get married
in St George's chapel.

You want the biggest party the world
has ever seen in my back garden?

You'll have it.

Andrew was at pains to point out
that this was a bigger

wedding than Harry and Meghan's,

and that they'd invited more people
to fill St George's chapel.

Because, of course,
that was the same place

that Harry and Meghan had got
married a couple of months earlier.

Because Jack and Eugenie
had so many friends.

So more people had to come.

Eugenie had three days of parties.

It was almost Andrew saying,

"Yeah, Meghan and Harry, whatever
you can do, I can do better."

And with Beatrice's
recent engagement to Italian

property tycoon Edoardo Mapelli
Mozzi, speculation regarding

the scale of her nuptials
has already started in earnest.

And it was rumoured in the press
that Prince Andrew

was keen for his daughter's husbands
to have Royal titles.

Something the Duke of York denied.

It's very interesting the way that
Princess Eugenie's still styled.

Because her husband
hasn't got a title, officially

she should now be Mrs Jack
Brooksbank, and the court's circular

and in correspondence because that's
her very archaic official title.

But it's very interesting that she's
styled Princess Eugenie comma,

Mrs Jack Brooksbank.

So, I think that was very much
a sign from Prince Andrew that

his daughter should be remembered,
that she's still a princess.

Despite Prince Andrew's best efforts
to keep the House of York front

and centre, what will the Epstein
scandal mean for the Duke of York?

In the summer of 2019,

fresh revelations
on the Epstein scandal emerged,

once again threatening
to engulf the Duke of York.

Will you recover from this, Sir?

He's never been far away
from controversy,

but his connection with Epstein,
that ill-fated friendship,

the Epstein connection
has inflicted the greatest

damage on his reputation
as a member of the Royal Family.

In July, federal prosecutors
filed new charges,

and once again
arrested Jeffrey Epstein.

Prince Andrew's continued friendship
with Epstein was once more

called into question.

Previously unseen footage
of Prince Andrew

in Epstein's Manhattan
town house appeared in the media.

Although it had sort of slept
dormant for four or five years,

it, it burst on the scene again,

and they showed a video of Andrew

at Epstein's townhouse in Manhattan.

You know, where there was lots of
comings and goings with young women.

So the world is saying, how could
he not have known what was going on?

This has been a very turbulent
summer for the Royal Family.

Buckingham Palace has
gone into firefighting mode,

they're defending the Duke of York

against the most serious allegations
to plague him in his Royal career.

There are questions
that many believe the Duke hasn't

completely answered.

Epstein's suicide
whilst in custody

meant he never stood trial
for the new allegations.

Epstein killed himself
shortly before going on trial again,

and so his accusers
feel that they have been

cheated of their day in court.

Footage captured on the steps
of a New York courthouse

showed Virginia Roberts,
now Giuffre,

renewing her accusations
against the Duke of York.

He knows exactly what he's done,
and I hope he comes clean about it.

Thank you.

There's also of course
the wider allegation

of what he knew
about what Epstein was doing.

Did he really see nothing,

as of course he has strenuously
insisted is the case?

Now that Epstein is dead,

and he's not going to have his day
in court, it's hard to see how

Andrew can properly and conclusively
shut these allegations down.

The case against Epstein
was dropped after his suicide,

but there have been calls to
investigate some of his associates.

With the Duke of York
named in court papers in 2015,

Virginia Roberts's lawyers have
asked for Prince Andrew

to come forward
and be interviewed under oath,

despite a judge ruling
comments about him be struck

record for being immaterial
and impertinent.

Andrew has never been spoken to by
American law enforcement agencies.

Buckingham Palace has been
at pains to stress that if people

want to talk to Andrew, they can.

I mean, of course, they would
say that, wouldn't they?

Whether that would actually happen
is a different matter.

If the Duke of York
were to testify, it would be the

first time in history that a member
of the British Royal Family

has appeared in a US court.

Andrew, clearly in his statements
repeatedly has said "I didn't

do anything wrong, I didn't know
anything wrong was going on."

The statement hasn't appeased the
various Epstein victims in America,

and in particular one has said
that Andrew knows what he has done.

And a lawyer is calling for Andrew
to go to the US to testify.

Virginia Roberts gave
a televised interview to American

television programme
Dateline for NBC.

It was a programme watched
by millions in which she further

detailed her alleged interactions
with Prince Andrew.

The first time in London
I was so young, Khelan woke me

up in the morning and said, "You're
going to meet a prince today."

I didn't know at that point that
I was going to be trafficked.

This is not a trial by the media.

it is an investigation, and it's not
up to newspapers to point fingers,

it's not up to newspapers
to put him on trial.

It is up to the Americans
as and when they have a case.

Will he be a hostile
witness to the FBI inquiry?

Will he be dragged into some
court case in America?

That seems less likely.

But surely someone is going
to want some answers to very many

questions about his connection
to Jeffrey Epstein,

to the girls and to all those
stories which have been buffeting

the Royal Family
throughout the summer months.

Despite his protestations
of innocence,

we don't really know what happened,
and therein lies the problem.

And I think that
this will continue to dog him,

this affair,
for the rest of his life.

The impact of the Epstein scandal on
the Royal Family is yet to be seen.

The Royal Family are by their very
nature loyal to one another,

and they close ranks
and support each other.

But Prince Andrew is testing
that policy and that loyalty,

and, you know, family ties
absolutely to the limit.

The Royal Family over the centuries
have been involved in

all sorts of allegations, innuendo,
scandals, and they have survived.

They've survived
for over a thousand years,

and they will continue to survive.

Individual members of the royal
family are not involved in this,
only Prince Andrew.

As Prince Andrew's future
is discussed

and speculated upon
in every quarter,

the title Duke of York is itself
facing an unknown future.

Because Prince Andrew has no male
heirs, the title is due to end.

But Andrew has only two daughters,

and as things stand at the moment,
as I understand it,

the title will go into abeyance,
or die with him, if you like.

And then it will be up to
another monarch,

Prince William, who has two sons
and he could give his son Louis

the title Duke of York
when he comes to the throne.

Currently eighth in line to the
throne, questions remain

over Prince Andrew's future
and that of the Royal House of York.

His diary is having to be cleared

because of the continued
speculation, and it's really

unsure and uncertain quite what's
going to happen next in terms of

how Andrew's going to rebuild what
is now a very tarnished reputation.

He's never going to
get rid of the stigma,

but it doesn't mean
he can't live with it.

It doesn't mean he can't go on,
but it will always be there now.

There is talk that he might
withdraw completely from Royal life.

But he can't disappear completely.
He's a member of the Royal Family.

He cannot resign
from the Royal Family.

He is still Prince Charles's brother
and the Queen's favourite son.

This very damaging for
the reputation of the Duke of York.

He would say at worst
he's been too loyal to a friend,

and he shouldn't have continued
the friendship with Epstein.

But you know, when you have
people on the steps of a court

in New York saying
"He knows what he has done,"

I don't think anybody thinks
this is the end of the story.

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