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Prince Andrew, now headed for a jury trial over rape allegations, nonetheless intends to argue that the photograph of him with a teenage Virginia Giuffre in convicted intercourse trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell’s London house is a pretend, The Each day Beast understands.
“It’s inconceivable to find out whether or not that photograph has been edited or in any other case altered based mostly on the digital copy that has been plastered all around the internet,” a confidant of Andrew’s, who gave an perception into the prince’s pondering, has solely instructed The Each day Beast.
The defiant angle mirrors the message transmitted by mates and acquaintances of Prince Andrew who say that the queen’s disgraced second son is simply as insistent in personal as he was in his Newsnight interview that he has by no means met Virginia Giuffre, the lady who accuses him of raping her 3 times when she was 17.