Jeremy Brock writes and Julian Jarrold directs the three-part follow-up to 2018's 'A Very English Scandal' and 2021's 'A Very British Scandal.'

A Very Royal Scandal” stars Michael Sheen and Ruth Wilson tell Obsessed about bringing to life the interview that led to one of the royal family’s most scandalous humiliations.

The Prime Video series dramatises the 2019 Newsnight interview with Prince Andrew when he was faced with allegations of sex trafficking with Jeffrey Epstein.

For Prime Video’s ‘A Very Royal Scandal,’ out Sept. 19, Ruth Wilson transformed into veteran journalist Emily Maitlis by wearing some of the actual clothes Maitlis wore to interview Prince Andrew in 2019 for BBC’s ‘Newsnight.

Because I’ve played a lot of real-life characters, people assume I want to [do that], but it’s the script, it’s the story” that drew him in, Sheen tells. He, like everyone, watched the interview when it aired and was “shocked,

A Very Royal Scandal has landed on Prime Video, and is the TV show adaptation of the now-infamous Newsnight interview which ultimately led to Prince Andrew retiring from royal duties. While Netflix's movie Scoop recently covered much of the same ground,

One of the reasons for doing it – and so relatively soon after it – is that it's a story where there are powerful people who would like to brush it away,” said Michael Sheen.

Ruth Wilson has said Britain's Prince Andrew was “walking blindly into his own sort of grave” during the Newsnight interview between him and Emily Maitlis. The journalist grilled Andrew over his relationship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein and the allegations that Epstein’s victim Virginia Giuffre was trafficked to have sex with the royal when she was 17 during a 2019 interview.