The fallout from Prince Andrew's car-crash BBC interview "was the late Queen's problem to deal with", not the then-Prince Charles's.
The interview, dramatised for the second time this year by Amazon in its Prime Video series A Very Royal Scandal, forced Buckingham Palace's hand when it aired in 2019.
The disgraced Duke of York was told to suspend his public duties "for the foreseeable future" - a decision made with the Queen's sign-off.
In light of today's release of the interview's latest adaptation, GB News' Royal Correspondent Cameron Walker and GBNews.com's Royal Editor Svar Nanan-Sen detailed how the Queen had to wield her "absolute authority".
The disgraced Duke of York was told to suspend his public duties "for the foreseeable future" - and Charles, as a prince, didn't have to deal with it
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Speaking on The Royal Record, the pair spoke of a piece of information relayed to journalist Emily Maitlis after her interview with the prince by a "royal source".
Cameron explained: "Apparently, the then-Prince Charles - now King, of course - was not unhappy that the interview took place when it did, and he wasn't unhappy about how it played out in Prince Andrew's answers.
"What Emily was basically suggesting is that because Charles was still a prince and therefore not King, it was the late Queen's problem to deal with in that immediate aftermath and the fallout.
"The can had been kicked down the road with this Prince Andrew problem, because Prince Andrew's association with Jeffrey Epstein was public knowledge for around a decade or so.
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Once the Queen made her decision, there would have been "no way for Andrew to try and fight his corner"
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"Instead of kicking the can down the road until when he was King, and [Charles] having the headache of dealing with it when he was King, it was actually his his mother's problem to deal with."
Svar added: "The Queen's authority was absolute. Once she made that decision, there would have been no way for Andrew to try and fight his corner and and persuade her otherwise.
"It's not that King Charles doesn't have that same authority, but we know that Andrew and Charles have a very frosty relationship.
"They've been feuding over Royal Lodge now for years, and Andrew has still not agreed to downsize and they remain at odds on that issue.
Charles and Andrew "have been feuding over Royal Lodge now for years"
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"For Charles, that was probably another problem with Prince Andrew which was avoided, because the Queen took decisive action at the time."
"According to many reports," Cameron said, "the late Queen's favourite son was Prince Andrew.
"It must have been very hard for Queen Elizabeth II to deal with that. But she did.
"And now, of course, it's going to play out for the world to see - yet again - on a three-part drama series on Amazon."