Is there a comeback more unwelcome and doomed than Prince Andrew’s? | Marina Hyde

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If all the duke has is a bizarre mocked-up photo of two people in a bathtub, then he’s in far worse trouble than he realises, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

. Yet, amazingly, the duke somehow still remains the most ridiculous thing about his own life. Barely a week goes by without some wince-inducing story about his comeback plans finding its well-sourced way into the news.

Then, last week, allies of the duke let it be known that “details are about to be made public which will change people’s perceptions of him”. Intriguing. Are those details … could they possibly be … a photograph subsequently published on the front page of the Daily Telegraph last Saturday? Unclear. But oh dear me,, released by Ian Maxwell, the brother of Epstein’s convicted accomplice, Ghislaine?

We might begin by querying whether “bath sex” is really the correct term for alleged rape of a trafficked teenager. But wait, because there’s more. The image is accompanied by quotes from Ian. I always feel I missed the point in time that the utterances of Ian Maxwell began being treated with something other than quizzical contempt. When precisely did this switcheroo happen? Anyway, here is Maxwell on the photo, which he seems to have personally staged.

If that photo wasn’t the gamechanging gambit at which Andrew’s allies were hinting, perhaps it was last week’s interview. In this, Maxwell clutched one of the visiting-room telephones at the Florida prison in which she is currently serving a 20-year-sentence for her crimes, and explained through the glass that the original photo of the duke with his arm round Giuffre was a fake.

 

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Even if it goes to trial and gets acquitted for to insufficient evidence, he's done reputationally. It seems an odd move by Charles to push this back into the light

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