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OPINION - Forget Scoop, the real story of Prince Andrew is the explosive end of British class deference

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As others have noted Scoop, the Netflix film about the Newsnight interview with the Duke of York that ended his career as a working royal in 2019, wasn’t a scoop. It exposed no new information. The story that the duke stayed in touch with the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein after he was convicted of sex offences belonged to the photo-journalist Jae Donnelly, who appears briefly in Scoop, taking the famous photograph of Epstein and Prince Andrew in Central Park.

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