The BBC Newsnight interview that is said to have made things worse for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor just had a producer come front and centre with some titillating details right from the day of.
For anyone unversed with the interview, it is where the infamous pizza trip was referenced. One where Mr Mountbatten-Windsor claimed he could not have been with his accuser Virginia Giuffre, whose since passed. His reasoning was that he had been at Pizza Express for a children’s party alongside Princess Beatrice earlier that day and thus felt it was an “unusual and therefore memorable event” that helped him remember his whereabouts for that day back in 2001, on March 10th.
Now nearly six years after that interview in 2019, Sam McAlister sat down to dish on something more.
According to The Royal Observer, she started by saying, “I will never know for sure why it was that she was there. My understanding from what I saw on that day was that they had intended to meet afterwards in some way. [Beatrice may] had found out what he was doing and had asked to come along, like any daughter would, looking to protect their father’s interests.”
She also said, “I also have no idea what she did or didn’t think of the negotiation … I wouldn’t want to say whether or not her influence was huge or small. I don’t know for sure.” Adding: “All I can say is that when she was in the room, I felt that she was the rainmaker in that room.”
A bit later into the conversation she noted, “It was very important that we listened to her concerns and questions, and it was without a doubt important to him what she thought, and so that had to be treated with dignity and respect in what was a very difficult position for literally now everyone in that room.”
Only before signing off did she touched a bit more on Princess Beatrice herself and was quoted saying, “the indication that you receive is that this is a young woman who is close to her father and cares about him, and it was exactly as you would expect that dynamic to be. I mean, I think it is, you know, quite a big thing to walk into a room like that.”
“That’s quite an intimidating room, I feel. So, I think you know to have the perspicacity and the presence of mind to walk in and obviously try to protect your father’s interests is you know is something that a lot of people will relate to. She certainly was very pleasant, very polite, and clearly interested in her father’s interests, as any good daughter would be.”
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