Mia Threapleton at the 2023 BAFTA Television Awards at The Royal Festival Hall on May 14, 2023 in London; Prince Andrew attends church on Christmas at Sandringham on December 25, 2023.Photo:Eamonn McCormack/BAFTA/Getty; Samir Hussein/WireImage
Eamonn McCormack/BAFTA/Getty; Samir Hussein/WireImage
Kate Winslet’s daughterMia Threapletonmakes a cameo in Netflix’s new movieScoopaboutPrince Andrew’s infamousNewsnightinterview, and the surprising scene revives a report about the royal’s extensive teddy bear collection.
In the drama released on April 5, 23-year-old Threapleton appeared oppositeRufus Sewellas the Duke of York as a palace maid tasked with arranging the teddy bears in his bedroom. The scene imagined Prince Andrew watching a newscast aboutJeffrey Epsteinbeing arrested on federal sex trafficking charges in 2019 before bellowing at the maid as she positioned the mountain of plush animals on his bed.
“How many times?” he yelled, as the housekeeper jumped up to apologize — theroyal cypher"ER" stitched onto her uniform amidQueen Elizabeth’s reign.
“Where does he go? Simple question. A clue? He’s a marsupial,” Sewell continued in character as Prince Andrew, picking up a stuffed kangaroo. “Roo, as in Kanga? Put them together, what do you get?”
“Roo kanga?” Threapleton suggested on screen, prompting the Duke of York to order her to “go away.”
Mia Threapleton in Scoop on Netflix.Netflix
Netflix
The exchange called back to Prince Andrew’s former maid’s claim in a 2022 interview withThe Sun. Charlotte Briggs worked at Buckingham Palace in the 1990s and alleged that part of her job wasmeticulously arrangingPrince Andrew’s collection of 72 teddy bears in the proper places on his bed and around his room.
“As soon as I got the job, I was told about the teddies, and it was drilled into me how he wanted them,” she told the outlet. “I even had a day’s training. Everything had to be just right. It was so peculiar.”
Briggs said there were 72 teddy bears from around the world with many dressed in sailor outfits, a detail replicated inScoop.
Prince Andrew attends church on Christmas on December 25, 2017.Chris Jackson/Getty
Chris Jackson/Getty
Each day, Briggs said she arranged the bears with the largest at the back and the smallest in front. In the evening, she or another maid would follow a diagram to put the teddy bears in their designated spots around the room.
Small bears were stacked in an unused fireplace while other stuffed animals — including two hippos and a black panther called “Daddy,” “Ducks” and “Prince” — were placed on the bed or elsewhere around the room. Prince Andrew’s two favorite teddy bears were placed on mahogany thrones at his bedside.
“It was so odd,” Briggs toldThe Sun. “After all, he was a grown man who had served in the Falklands. But he absolutely loved the teddies and was very clear about how he wanted them arranged.”
Rufus Sewell as Prince Andrew in Scoop.Netflix
“It started as, in a sense, a non-story, and then it became the biggest story in the world,“McAlister exclusively tells PEOPLE.
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Four days after theNewsnightinterview was aired, Prince Andrew announced he was stepping back from his royal role.
The Duke of York has denied any wrongdoing andsaidhe continued to “unequivocally regret my ill-judged association with Jeffrey Epstein,” who died in prison while awaiting federal sex trafficking charges in August 2019.
Prince Andrew and Emily Maitlis during the BBC Newsnight interview in November 2019.BBC/Mark Harrison
Scoopis now streaming on Netflix.
source: people.com
