Prince Andrew will struggle to recover from A Very Royal Scandal

Sensational dramas about the Duke of York are rather like London buses: you wait five years for one, and then two come along at once. Amazon Prime’s three-part series, A Very Royal Scandal, which focuses on the notorious Newsnight interview with Prince Andrew, is released tomorrow. The show follows the perspective of both the journalist Emily Maitlis (Ruth Wilson) and, more surprisingly, Andrew himself, in another of the ever-chameleonic Michael Sheen’s superb performances. A Very Royal Scandal follows Netflix’s depiction of the interview, Scoop, which was released earlier this year.

Whether the royals will be watching either of the dramatisations seems questionable. Each one offers its own pleasures and intrigue, as well as several moments where the average viewer will be driven to sigh, shout or otherwise exclaim at the screen, thanks to the sheer awfulness of the Duke’s behaviour.