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- The Netflix film Scoop shows one of Prince Andrew's strangest obsessions: stuffed animals.
- A former royal aide, Charlotte Briggs, who worked as a maid at Buckingham Palace, previously spoke out about his bizarre bedtime requirements.
- Scoop focuses on Prince Andrew's 2019 interview with the BBC, in which he discussed his former friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
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Netflix's Scoop shows one of Prince Andrew's strangest obsessions: stuffed animals.
Scoop follows how journalists from the BBC secured the infamous 2019 interview with Prince Andrew about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
In the film, there is a scene where a maid arranges stuffed animals on the disgraced royal's bed. The prince is played by Rufus Sewell, and in the scene, he aggressively tells a maid how he wants his toys placed.
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The unsettling scene is based on real reports of Prince Andrew's affinity for stuffed animals.
His former maid, Charlotte Briggs, who worked at Buckingham Palace in the 1990s, told The Sun in 2022 of a particularly bizarre requirement of her job that involved meticulously sorting the royal's stuffed animals. The instructions were clearly stated on a laminated sheet for his aides.
"As soon as I got the job, I was told about the teddies and it was drilled into me how he wanted them," she said. "I even had a day's training. Everything had to be just right. It was so peculiar."
The teddies, "all 72 of them", were from all around the world, most dressed as sailors and had to be arranged every morning with the biggest ones at the back.
"It took me half an hour to arrange them — most bizarre thing to be paid for," the former aide recalled. "Then, at bedtime, I had to take all the teddies off and arrange them around the room.
"They each had a set place. We had to stack the smaller ones in an unused fireplace, again in size order, to make them look pretty.
"His two favourite bears sat on two thrones either side of the bed. The others would sit at the foot of the bed on the floor."
