Emily Maitlis has claimed that no one will ever know whether the Duke of York is guilty of sex offences. The former BBC journalist said the question of whether she personally thought Prince Andrew had slept with his accuser, Virginia Giuffre, was one she had not articulated since she interviewed him on Newsnight in 2019 . But as Ruth Wilson, the actress, prepared to play Maitlis in a new three-part drama depicting the circumstances surrounding the interview , she asked her directly what she thought.
“I have had plenty of occasions – and more opportunity than most – to consider Andrew’s ‘guilt’, but the question has always struck me as imprecise,” Maitlis wrote in The Times . “So I throw it back at Wilson. Guilty of what?”.