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Prince Andrew photograph ‘has date printed on the back PROVING it is not a fake’
A PHOTO showing Prince Andrew with his arm around Virginia Roberts is a genuine picture and can be proved by a printed date on the back, the 'sex slave' has claimed.
The Duke of York has previously claimed he has 'no recollection' of the photograph being taken at Ghislaine Maxwell's Belgravia home in 2001.
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Ms Roberts says the picture shows the pair together on the first floor of Ms Maxwell's home on the night she was forced to have sex with him as a 17-year-old in 2001.
Friends of the prince have questioned whether the picture is a fake and said his fingers are much "chubbier" in real life than the ones in the photo.
Last night's BBC Panorama documentary also revealed:
- Five more women say Prince Andrew witnessed Epstein abuse them.
- Virginia Roberts called sex with the Duke of York 'quick and disgusting'.
- Leaked e-mails appear to show Andrew asking for help after sex claims.
- Unseen pictures show the Prince at Ascot with Epstein and Maxwell.
- An Epstein sex accuser says 'wild sex was normal as cup of tea'.
Legal papers reveal an ex-partner of Virginia told US officials he remembers being shown a copy of the picture just weeks after it was taken.
Ms Roberts told the programme a date on the back of the photo shows it was printed on March 13, 2001 - just two days after it was taken.
She said: "It's an authentic photo, I have given it to the FBI. There's a date on the back of the it from when it was printed.
"The people on the inside are going to keep coming up with these ridiculous excuses.
"Like his arm was elongated or the photo was doctored, or he came to New York to break up with Jeffrey Epstein. I mean, come on, I'm calling BS on this, because that's what it is.
"He knows what happened. I know what happened and there's only one of us telling the truth, and I know that's me."
The picture was first published in 2011 after Prince Andrew visited Epstein in New York three years after his conviction for soliciting a minor for prostitution.
'SEX WITH PRINCE WAS QUICK AND DISGUSTING'
Ms Roberts, now 35, says she was trafficked for sex by US billionaire Jeffrey Epstein and flown by private jet to London where she was ordered to have sex with Prince Andrew.
She alleges she was later forced to have sex twice more in New York and the US Virgin Islands as a 17-year-old in 2001.
Speaking to Panorama of the night they allegedly first had sex in London after dancing at Tramp nightclub, Ms Roberts said: "Ghislaine tells me I have to do for Andrew what I do for Jeffrey and that made me sick.
"I just didn't expect it from royalty. I didn't expect it from someone people look up to and admire.
"It didn’t last very long. The whole thing, procedure - it was disgusting. He got up and said thanks and walked out and I sat there in bed, I felt horrified and ashamed and dirty.
"The next day Ghislaine pats me on the back and said 'you made him really happy'.
"I had just been abused by a member of the Royal Family.
"I hadn't been chained to a kitchen sink but these powerful people were my chains."
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Prince Andrew claims Ms Roberts' account is "categorically untrue".
He says he was at a Pizza Express in Woking on the night in question in March 2001 taking his daughter Princess Beatrice to a party.
The prince added that Ms Roberts' claims that he sweated heavily could not have been true as a medical condition he had at the time meant he couldn't sweat, after suffering an overdose of adrenalin during the Falklands War.
Repeating her claims, Ms Roberts said: "He asked me to dance. He is the most hideous dancer I've ever seen in my life.
"It was horrible and this guy was sweating all over me, like his sweat was like it was raining basically everywhere.
"I was just like grossed out from it, but I knew I had to keep him happy because that's what Jeffrey and Ghislaine would have expected from me."
E-MAILS SHOW ANDREW BEGGING FOR INFO ABOUT VIRGINIA
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Leaked e-mails obtained by the programme appear to show Prince Andrew begging Maxwell for help after Ms Roberts lodged court papers in Florida claiming she'd been forced to have sex with him.
The Duke is said to have written: "Let me know when we can talk. Got some specific questions to ask you about Virginia Roberts."
Ms Maxwell replies: "Have some info. Call me when you have a moment."
The e-mails were allegedly written just hours after the court papers were filed.
The court papers were later struck from US civil court records when a judge ruled them “immaterial and impertinent” to allegations against Epstein.
PRINCE'S FRIENDSHIP WITH EPSTEIN
Epstein was convicted of procuring a minor for prostitution in 2008 and was arrested for alleged sex trafficking earlier this year before taking his life in prison in August.
Prince Andrew was friends with Epstein and claims he went to stay at his New York home three years after the billionaire's conviction to tell him they could no longer be friends.
The Panorama documentary heard how a housekeeper told US officials Prince Andrew would stay with Epstein 'for weeks at a time' and have 'daily massages'.
The Prince has denied ever having received a massage from a girl trafficked by Epstein.
Ms Roberts told the programme her time with Epstein was "really scary".
She said: "I implore the people in the UK to stand up beside me, to help me fight this fight, to not accept this as being OK.
"This is not some sordid sex story. This is a story of being trafficked. This is a story of abuse and this is a story of your guys' royalty."
And she said of Andrew's denials: "The people on the inside are going to keep coming up with these ridiculous excuses.
"Like his arm was elongated or the photo was doctored, or uh he came to New York to break up with Jeffrey Epstein.
"I mean come on, I'm calling BS on this, because that's what it is."He knows what happened, I know what happened.
"And there's only one of us telling the truth."
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Epstein was found dead in his New York prison cell in August as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges.
Virginia initially made her claims against Andrew in court papers in Florida but they were struck from US civil court records.
Buckingham Palace has branded the allegations "false and without any foundation", stating: "Any suggestion of impropriety with under-age minors" by the duke was "categorically untrue".
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