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This is what it looks like when someone who's never been held accountable tries to lie their way out on camera.November 16, 2019. Two million people tuned in to BBC Two that evening. What they watched wasn't an interview. It was an autopsy performed while the patient was still talking.Prince Andrew, Duke of York, second son of Queen Elizabeth II, eighth in line to the throne, sat in a gilt-wood chair inside Buckingham Palace's South Drawing Room and attempted to explain why he maintained a friendship with a convicted sex offender named Jeffrey Epstein. The interview had been recorded two days earlier. Forty-nine minutes of footage. And somewhere in those forty-nine minutes, a man who had spent fifty-nine years being protected from consequences discovered what happens when the protection stops.Emily Maitlis didn't destroy him with aggressive questions or gotcha journalism. She did something far more devastating. She asked questions. Then she waited. And in those silences, Andrew talked himself into oblivion—one contradiction at a time, each answer building the scaffold for his own public execution.What we're going to do here is forensic. We're going to break down exactly how this disaster worked. Not what the scandal was about. You already know that. What we're examining is the mechanism. How does a member of the royal family sit down for a recorded interview and leave behind something so incriminating that clips would circulate for years, accumulating tens of millions of views? How does someone fail this completely while apparently believing they're winning?The answer involves five specific contradiction moments, one journalist's masterful patience, and a psychological blind spot so vast that an entire lifetime of privilege couldn't see around it.Let's start with why he sat down at all. Because the story of how this interview came together is almost as revealing as the interview itself.By November 2019, the pressure had become unbearable. Jeffrey Epstein had died in his Manhattan jail cell on August 10 of that year, and the conspiracy theories surrounding his death renewed attention on everyone in his orbit. Virginia Giuffre had been publicly alleging for years that she was trafficked to Prince Andrew on three occasions when she was seventeen. Every royal engagement generated questions. The strategy of dignified silence wasn't working anymore.