How Andrew threw his toy kangaroo out of the pram

KATE WINSLET’S actress daughter Mia Threapleton appears in the prestige Netflix drama Scoop — playing a Buckingham Palace housemaid who is taken to task by Prince Andrew over her arrangement of stuffed animals on his bed.

The Prince, played by Rufus Sewell, is seen angrily chiding her about the positioning of a toy kangaroo: ‘Where does he go? No clue? He’s a marsupial! Roo, as in Kanga? Put it together? What do you get?’

Mia, playing the maid, timidly suggests: ‘Roo Kanga?’ Andrew snaps: ‘Go away!’ It’s a moment of comedy in the film, which recreates the leadup to Prince Andrew’s infamous 2019 interview with Newsnight about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. In the drama, written by Peter Moffat, Prince Andrew tells the Newsnight team: ‘I don’t quite understand why everyone is so obsessed with my friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. I knew Jimmy Savile so much better.’ He then laughs at his joke.

Though Savile had a friendship with Andrew’s brother, the then Prince Charles — and boasted about it — it’s not clear whether he knew Prince Andrew at all.

Savile died in 2011, and only after his death was he unmasked as a prolific paedophile.

Scoop streams on Netflix from next Friday. Gillian Anderson plays Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis and Billie Piper is producer Sam McAlister, who set up the interview.

Within four days of its broadcast, the Prince announced that he had stepped back from royal duties, and was subsequently stripped of his military roles and barred from using his HRH title.