
A Very Royal Scandal
2024 · Miniseries · TV-MA · ★ 6.6 · 73% critics
This three-part drama follows a high-profile TV journalist as mounting pressure, public scrutiny, and palace tensions build toward a notorious televised interview with a royal figure. It mixes newsroom ambition with personal strain and explores how one broadcast can reshape a public scandal.
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Streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
3 hours to watch · 3 episodes.
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Details
- Years
- 2024
- Release date
- 2024-09-19
- Network
- Prime Video
- Language
- English
- Rated
- TV-MA
- Critic score
- 73/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.6/10 (23 votes)
About
If you like fact-based media dramas and royal scandal stories in the vein of Frost/Nixon or The Crown, this may work for you; Not for you if you want a brisk, tightly focused retelling.
Pros: compelling true-story drama; strong lead performances; tense interview buildup | Cons: uneven focus; distracting voice choice; dark, moody tone
Themes
- sex scandal
- prince
- interview
- royal family
- based on true story
- british royal family
- celebrity interview
- prince andrew
Cast & crew

Michael Sheen
as Prince Andrew

Ruth Wilson
as Emily Maitlis

Joanna Scanlan
as Amanda Thirsk

Alex Jennings
as Sir Edward Young

Éanna Hardwicke
as Stewart Maclean

Claire Rushbrook
as Sarah Ferguson

Honor Swinton Byrne
as Princess Beatrice

Lydia Leonard
as Esme Wren

Nicholas Burns
as Mark Gwynne

Sam Troughton
as Donal McCabe
Episodes1 season · 3 episodes
Season 13 episodes
- S1E1Episode One61mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E2Episode Two59mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E3Episode Three60mAmazon Prime Video