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A photographer who photographed Prince Andrew’s infamous 2019 interview says the Duke of York thought it went “very well.”
Mark Harrison said he received a call from BBC Newsnight in November 2019 after his friend was unable to do the job.
The photographer, who has taken images of Margret Thatcher before, said he almost turned down the job while waiting for the delivery of a dishwasher.
What he didn’t know was that the job was for one of the most disastrous interviews in true history, which is being recreated for the Netflix drama Scoop, airing tomorrow.
Emily Maitlis spoke to the Duke of York about her relationship with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and Virginia Giuffre’s allegations.
In scenes that humiliated Andrew and his family, he claimed he was at Pizza Express in Woking that night. Virginia Giuffre claimed that he had sexual relations with her in London when she was 17 years old.
Photographer Mark Harrison appeared on This Morning today and spoke about the interview experience.
One of Mark’s shots of Prince Andrew and Emily Maitlis in the hallway.
He also tried to dispel his claims that he “sweats profusely” by claiming that being shot during the Falklands War left him with a condition that prevents him from sweating.
Andrew then suggested that the photo of them together at Ghislaine Maxwell’s London home was fake.
Despite all this, Mark claims that Andrew thought the interview went “really well” at the time.
The photographer received a call at 6.30pm the night before the interview and told This Morning: ‘The phone rings and they say, “Are you free tomorrow?” with a slightly scared voice.
‘I said it depends on what it is because I have a dishwasher delivery on the way. They said they couldn’t tell me and I had a minute to decide if I wanted to do it.’
Mark said he was intrigued by the call and decided to take the job. He was then told to go to Buckingham Palace the next day in a smart suit and polished shoes.
“I’m waiting and I felt a bit like a spy, which sounds ridiculous but I don’t know what I’m going to do or why I’m there,” he said.
Mark then explained that he heard a tannoy announcing that the Queen’s laundry had arrived at the Palace.
‘So I got up and took a look. It was in a big van that showed up, I probably shouldn’t say anything else,” she said.
He then went up to the main room when a Palace intern told him he was there to work with the Duke of York.
“(The crew) said don’t stop filming whatever you do, there’s a chance Prince Andrew can walk, we don’t know what’s going to happen, whatever you do, understand,” he said.
Prince Andrew, Duke of York, smiles as he leads royals to the Thanksgiving service in honor of King Constantine at St George’s Chapel.
Mark said he had to delay the start of the interview because there was a “messy breakfast” at the back of the shot and asked for it to be removed.
He said: ‘I didn’t shoot during the interview. I shot beforehand with Andrew smiling and Emily looking pretty serious.
The photographer said the hallway shots were actually taken right at the end of the interview, but they showed them at the beginning.
‘(Andrew and Emily) marched to the end of the room and I asked them to go very slowly and not talk, and they moved quite quickly and (talked).
“We get to the end and (they say) it’s a wrap-up and that’s when Prince Andrew said, ‘Well, I think it went really well.’
Mark added that he was “blown away” by the whole experience and that the interview was “a bit of a shock” for both him and the audience.
Netflix has announced that a new film based on the interview, starring Rufus Sewell as the Duke of York and Gillian Anderson as Emily Maitlis, will premiere tomorrow after premiering in Mayfair last week.