A Very Royal Scandal exposes sick question Prince Andrew asked Emily Maitlis before their interview

Emily was a victim of stalker for 27 years after Edward Vines bombarded her with letters following a fixation that has spanned since the pair attended Cambridge University together in the 1990s.

In 2022 Edward was jailed for eight years after writing a series of letters from HMP Nottingham declaring his ‘unrequited love’ with ‘outpourings of affection’ for her.
In March 2023 he was jailed for a further nine months after trying to also write to the presenter’s mother.

Vines had insisted that he would continue penning letters to Maitlis until she spoke to him ‘about her behaviour in 1990’ – when he claimed ‘she snubbed him at Cambridge University’.
A court heard that, while he was awaiting sentence for breaching his restraining order 20 times, he tried to write to Maitlis’ mother Marian between July and August in 2022.
And the connection between terrorised by a stalker and Prince Andrew’s question of abuse is clear in the actresses face.