re: #110 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

I googled and googled, but couldn’t find the admission that the photo was real. While failure to deny may speak louder than words, it’s not the same as an explicit admission.

This is the best I could find:

Although the prince was quick to insist at the time that there was nothing to the photo, and that he had met Virginia only momentarily, the association with Epstein was sufficiently embarrassing that he promptly resigned as Special Trade Representative, and has struggled to define an official role for himself since, although he is still said by the Palace to be devoted to furthering Britain’s business interests.

I can’t find his verbatim response, but it seems clear at the time he had the opportunity to challenge the authenticity of the photo and instead chose to say that he had in fact met Roberts, but only briefly. His tack seems to have been downplaying the importance of the picture, not validity of the image itself. The way the article is worded one could I guess still wonder if the meeting he was referring to wasn’t when the photo was taken but that he chose to admit to meeting her and not identify the photo as a fake for mysterious and unstated reasons. This seems highly implausible to me, but yes technically possible.