ANDREW COMEBACK CRASHES & BURNS!
Netflix tell-all movie is the final nail in dirty duke’s coffin
DISGRACED Prince Andrew is convinced Netflix’s new film Scoop — which drags up his sleazy bromance with child sex slaver Jeffrey Epstein — has sabotaged any chance he has of returning to regular royal life, palace spies dish.
As his big brother, King Charles, battles cancer, Andrew was hoping to worm his way back into the royal fold — but the Netflix docudrama, which premiered early this month, has proven the Duke of York’s dirtfilled past will never die, a courtier tells GLOBE.
Scoop recounts the duke’s lame 2019 interview with the BBC’s Newsnight when Andrew tried to distance himself from late pedophile Epstein and denied knowing the fat cat perv bedded underage girls and insisted he didn’t partake of the billionaire’s sex slaves.
In the movie Rufus Sewell plays the duke and makes a crude joke to BBC reporters about flamboyant British media personality Jimmy Savile, who after his 2011 death was found to have preyed on 1,000 children, some as young as five years old.
“The movie makes Andrew look like a total fool by linking him to Jimmy Savile,” groans the courtier.
“It’s just so degrading and there’s nothing he can do.”
Now the 64-year-old royal’s attempt to whitewash his creepy past is a smoldering ruin — and “Andrew is in a deep funk,” confides a palace insider.
“He was getting invited to a lot of royal
events again, not just with his ex-wife, Sarah, but by himself as well.
“He was starting to feel much more welcome and confident people had really started to forgive him. He was quietly starting to believe there was a path back for him into public service — and the royal payroll.
“But this has just set everything back in such a giant way.”
As GLOBE readers know, Andrew was barred from royal duties and stripped of military titles and patronages due to his association with child rapist Epstein.
He later paid an estimated $14 million to Epstein sex slave Virginia Giuffre to drop her lawsuit claiming he raped her when she was 17 and he was 41. Despite the payment, he strongly denies her tale.
In recent months, Andrew was making slow progress back into the royal spotlight, appearing at several events, including a Christmas Day church service with his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, and the Thanksgiving service for the late King Constantine of Greece in February.
Now, the Netflix movie has dredged up his disgraceful past.
“His only choice is to hope it will blow over soon,” says the insider. “He’s back to shutting himself in the house and hiding from everyone, except Sarah and his daughters.
“He’s ranting and raving about how unfair it all is and worrying what people are saying about him.
“He’s convinced there are dark forces at play and worried about what else they’re going to dig up.”
While he’s whining like a selfish brat, his family is distraught over Charles, 75, and Prince William’s wife, Princess Kate,
42, who are battling cancer.
“The royals have absolutely had it up to their necks with Andrew,” blabs the insider. “For him to be whining about how he’s being portrayed, when Charles and Kate are terribly sick, is a bit rich.”
Andrew’s humiliating portrayal in the Netflix saga is also a huge embarrassment for daughters Beatrice, 35, and Eugenie, 34, and their mom, Sarah, 64, who was recently diagnosed with malignant melanoma.
“Beatrice and Eugenie have got loads going on with work and raising their young kids and just wish this would all go away, but obviously it’s never going to,” says the insider.
“They’re not going to turn their backs on their dad but it’s hard to imagine they’re not feeling resentful towards him for bringing on all this stress.”