Again, third person, but validates the idea the photo was at least being treated as real when it came out:

Last month a photograph emerged of Prince Andrew with his arm around a young woman called Virginia Roberts while she was employed by Epstein as a masseuse. She alleges that Epstein sexually exploited her while she was a teenage minor.

Rugby and Oxford-educated Ms Ashkenazi, 31, who lives in a 28million house in Holland Park, west London, said: “I told Andrew not to worry, that he’d done nothing wrong and that it was being blown out of proportion. Of course, he knows it was unwise to fraternise with this Epstein character and it was silly to be photographed with his arm around Epstein’s masseuse.

“But I know Andrew as a lovely, lovely man - kind-hearted, impeccably behaved and honourable. I’m quite sure at the time he had no idea that she was underage or anything more than a masseuse to Epstein.”