Emily Maitlis: Prince Andrew ‘tried to remember rehearsed lines’ during notorious Newsnight interview

Emily Maitlis says Prince Andrew 'tried to remember rehearsed lines' during Newsnight interview. Source: ITV

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00:00He gave you the most extraordinary answers to your questions.

00:03The answer about not sweating, for example,

00:05the pizza hug in Woking answer,

00:07the fact that he was an honourable man

00:09and that's why he'd spent four nights at Epstein's house

00:11after Epstein had been convicted of his awful crimes.

00:14Can I ask you a straight question?

00:16When the director said, cut, did you think,

00:18this man has been lying to me?

00:22I thought that he had tried very hard to remember his lines,

00:29and I know that.

00:30That's a very interesting answer.