A piece in today’s Sunday Mirror. As usual with mainstream media claims, the word “alleged” and its variants are employed to avoid possible legal ramifications if the claims are later found to be untrue (or it proving impossible to substantiate the claims).

I have never believed that the image (reproduced in the article) allegedly (I’ll use the word, too) showing Prince Andrew with his arm around Virginia Giuffre’s waist – the woman committed suicide earlier this year – is genuine. I base this view on three issues:

• the absence of any metadata for the image
• the unbelievability that the second-in-line to the throne would happily be photographed with his arm around the waist of a known young prostitute
• the unbelievability that Ghislaine Maxwell would happily be photographed in the same image

There are other issues that inform my view, but these will hopefully suffice so far as this blog piece is concerned. Of course even if Prince Andrew did have sex with the woman when she was 17, he’d have been committing no criminal offence in the UK. He paid her millions of pounds to settle the case, and continues to deny any guilt, understandably. Doubtless his lawyers would have told him that to risk a court case in the febrile court systems of either the UK or the US could have led to a prison sentence, regardless of the evidence (or lack of it) presented.

An extract from the article:

“On November 16 2019, during his BBC interview, Andrew claimed he has “no recollection of ever meeting” Ms Giuffre, denying the allegations against him.” “

In my view, Andrew’s lack of recollection genuinely stems from never having met the woman. I know of no evidence that proves otherwise.

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