Prince Andrew's BBC Interview Producer Recalls 'Curveball Moment' Involving Another Royal (Exclusive)

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Former BBC producer Sam McAlister, who secured Prince Andrew's 2019 interview surrounding his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, tells PEOPLE about her surprise when Princess Beatrice joined a meeting ahead of the sit-down.

Sam McAlister tells PEOPLE about the Duke of York bringing an unexpected family member to a meeting ahead of his interview surrounding his connection to Jeffrey EpsteinJanine Henni is a Royals Staff Writer for PEOPLE Digital, covering modern monarchies and the world's most famous families. Like Queen Elizabeth, she loves horses and a great tiara moment.

"So, to have prepared to do this incredibly important negotiation and then have to do it on these sensitive and difficult subjects in front of his young daughter really was taking an already extraordinary experience to the next level," McAlister recalls. "Nothing prepares you for a professional experience like that.

"The experience for me was like things just kept getting higher and higher in terms of the stakes, and it was just extraordinary to hear all of that on camera. Because we'd heard some of it in private in a small room in Buckingham Palace a couple of days earlier, but to hear him say it for the world to see was the most shocking part of all, in a sense," she continues. "It was unimaginable, some of the answers that he gave in public.

 

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